I can give you my considered scientific opinion; I can't speculate as to whether it would guarantee that we would have found the circumstance.
Again, I think the difficult reality of the consequences that occurred last summer was that there were unknowns about this issue of the ability for slicers and equipment.... The issue of what happened last summer was multi-factoral. There were a number of contributing factors. I think Mr. McCain and others, and even our own assessment beyond the investigation done by Maple Leaf, indicated that there were a number of factors in the plant in terms of product movement, people movement, situation of elevators, positive pressure movements, and other things that were detected in terms of equipment.
Having said that, what was critical to this whole event was this determination at the end of the day that in spite of cleaning and disinfection and breaking down of equipment according to manufacturers' specifications, beyond the cutting and contact surfaces, a new threat, a new issue, was identified in this particular circumstance, which we had no knowledge about, that could colonize deep into the equipment and well away from the normal operating events. That, in combination with the fact that a product that in true terms is recognized to have higher health consequences to vulnerable populations....
One of the parts of the tragedy of this is that the vast majority of people who died and who had illness last year were a vulnerable population. The fact that these products were being served in institutions without cooking, and other factors, is another critical element to this.
So to say that doing environmental testing twice a year would have found this I suspect would not have stopped it at the level of the plant.