If you'd like, let me add from a Health Canada perspective to what my colleague Laura just mentioned. We have over the past many years started including vulnerable populations in the risk assessments we do.
One exercise we did established a vulnerable populations panel. This allowed us to better understand and appreciate the range of vulnerable populations that exist and how each could individually be affected by chemical exposure and what their particular uniqueness is.
Really, what makes the difference in our true ability to factor in vulnerable populations, then, resides in the availability of data to get a sense of what levels of particular chemicals we are seeing in vulnerable populations and where they happen to be located with respect to sources of exposure to chemicals. It is that combination.
It's great to have a panel to identify and expand our understanding of vulnerable populations. It is largely driven by the data that's available. Definitely, as we go forward, the establishment of panels such as that will help broaden our understanding of the issue as we take into consideration the perspectives and the views of a range of other vulnerable populations.