I'd like to address the first issue, on lab capacity, and then I would ask Paul Mayers if he could respond to the subsequent questions posed by the member.
With respect to lab capacity, streamlining tests, etc., this comes back largely to part of your coordination opportunity question. As we've said, we've tried to be very frank in our report, because the circumstance warrants us being very frank, in light of what happened.
We have lab capacity regionally. We have a food lab in Scarborough since the events in this particular circumstance, and it was critical to some of the food sampling once CFIA was actively engaged, as of the 6th, because it has the capacity to do culture for listeria. In fact, it was the sample submitted to them on the 12th, which was returned to us on the 16th, four days later, that triggered our advisory and the voluntary recall.
On the issue of backup systems, since that time not only have we expanded our lab capacity, but the lab has always been available to operate on a 24/7 basis, and it does operate on a 24/7 basis when we're involved in active investigation mode. Over and above that, we've also expanded it to the extent of getting it certified to do the PFGE or the fingerprint testing again so it can be done in one site, as opposed to multiple sites. So we believe we do provide federal regional support in the area if the provincial jurisdiction chooses to pursue that.
Again, we will continue at CFIA to work in parallel with Health Canada, because part of this also says that we need to continue to invest in test methods development. We need to get the tests that can be used either in food products or on contact surfaces that give us earlier results than the current gold standard of a culture test.