I think red tape or regulations are important, as you say, to ensure our food safety. Part of it is this educational component of those innovations like flow cytometry online tools that can be used to automatically detect food safety issues, rather than some of the old technologies that are proven and that our regulations are built around. There has to be this matching between using the regulations effectively as they are at the moment, and also being prospective in what innovations can overturn those regulations and in turn help innovate on the line to slow down the amount of hold up on product, for instance, because you've now got these 30-second response times rather than 18- or 24-hour response times waiting for a regulation to be enforced.
Evidence of meeting #6 for Agriculture and Agri-Food in the 43rd Parliament, 2nd Session. (The original version is on Parliament’s site, as are the minutes.) The winning word was capacity.
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