Thank you, witnesses, for being the leadoff for this important study.
In 2019, the executive director of the food safety and consumer protection directorate of CFIA, in speaking to the safe food for Canadians regulation, said that we require all businesses, including importers, to be licensed, to have traceability records in place and to have a preventative control program, and that this is how businesses are ensuring that their labels are truthful and not misleading.
You also said in your testimony that in your audits, you have found that 92% of the food labelling in seafood is correct.
I made my weekly trip to the grocery store to look at what is on some of the seafood that's available in the store. I'd like your opinion on some of these. I can share with the committee, if you want, the photos of some of the products at the appropriate time.
I'd like you to please define for me what “organic Atlantic salmon” means.