Thank you, Chair.
I appreciate the willingness of committee members to meet. I've met with representatives of the different parties and I think we have consensus on close to 90% of the issues. For some of the more benign issues, such as what do we call DEHP--should it be di(2-ethylhexyl)phthalate or bis(2-ethylhexyl)phthalate--I don't think that's contentious. But regarding Mr. Cullen's recommendations on defining phthalates, of having less than 0.1%, there are a lot of minor things that I think we've now got consensus on. Which statute should be managing it? Who's accountable? I think we're very close.
To get an overview, perhaps I could ask the department to explain, because what I've passed on to the department is what I believe is the consensus position, by talking to Mr. Godfrey and Mr. Cullen, and they've tried then to draft it into a form that I think properly represents a consensus position. If they could give us an overview, we might have a big picture of where we're going.