Mr. Allen, you raise a good point. Visual inspection certainly plays a role in producing safe food, and having a trained, knowledgeable, and experienced inspection force is a critical factor in food safety. There's no debate regarding this. We would all agree.
Over the past 10 or 15 years, the food industry has begun to understand what it takes to control listeria within a refrigerated food processing environment. We've learned that visual inspection is not enough. You must have an aggressive environmental testing program that provides data on which you can make informed decisions. An experienced and competent inspection staff would also play a role in evaluating these data. As part of the new CFIA policy that went into place on April 1, this will certainly be happening in all of our facilities going forward. In fact, it's probably happening today. We expect this to enhance the safety of the products that we and our peers in the industry produce.
Just to reiterate, I agree that visual inspection plays a role in safety. But with respect to this food safety hazard, listeria monocytogenes in ready-to-eat foods, it's even more important to have data. You need data generated through an aggressive environmental testing program that provides you with a view of what's actually happening in the process.
With respect to the second question regarding data sharing, the information was in the past generated before August. The information related to the listeria testing program that Mr. McCain refers to was available for review in a binder in the office. As Mr. McCain says, we are obligated to share this information upon request. It certainly was available for inspection.