Thank you again.
I'm trying to understand a little bit about listeriosis. It seems that Mr. Easter is intent on blaming our government for whatever reason, when actually the funding for testing that was cut, and which we had to reinstate, was part of what they did, for whatever reason. It was likely to try to create surpluses within their budget. I'm not sure. What I've tried to understand here, though, is what actually happened, and what we can do to improve things so it doesn't happen again. We're talking about an illness, a disease, that happened because of food safety.
My understanding is that listeria is pretty much everywhere. Listeriosis is pretty complex. It can have symptoms that are similar to those of other diseases, if I understand that correctly. The reality is that there are all sorts of illnesses that can occur at any time, and when we look at the routine findings...when the samples are sent in, what is the trigger? What trigger shifts a report from being routine findings to being a red alert? Can you explain, first of all, when you first noticed the unusual levels that would point to a potential crisis? Did the listeria case look like a fairly normal event at first? There's a process time here that seems to have taken place, but what actually shifts that report from being routine and takes it on to being the red alert or emergency that might instigate a recall?