Mr. Chairman, there is a difference between trade secrets and health and safety data. The world is moving towards recognizing that difference. CEPA does a terrible job of making health and safety data public and transparent. As REACH is coming, if we're going to be sharing information, we need to be harmonized with other jurisdictions in terms of how we deal with health and safety data. In fact, we just agreed to the strategic approach to international chemicals management agreement with 160 other countries. In there it says that health and safety data run health and it should not be considered confidential.
On November 20th, 2006. See this statement in context.