Thank you.
I think this is becoming a bit of a personal obsession, but I'm very curious about the testing component of this. I didn't see it in your report. Do you have any plans to look at the way chemicals are assessed? Mr. Moffet pointed out the process used and that there are protocols that are developed under OECD and other organizations. I'm trying to apply this to other industries and other things we consider potentially harmful.
I would never have considered it a good government policy to allow the tobacco firms to give us their tests on whether tobacco was safe or not because of their deeply vested interest in being able to continue to sell their product. Clearly the government doesn't want to do the same thing in the case of toxic substances. As auditors, have you done any assessment in terms of what the backstop is for a company that chooses to perform bad testing, to verify their product as fine for the marketplace?
