I think you're quoting there something that says 100% of U.S. meat imports are inspected but in Canada only 10% are. I don't know who gave you that information. But again, Canada and the United States have essentially the same system. That's why we have equivalencies. We're the two countries that have better equivalency in meat imports and exports than any other two countries in the world. Basically, what both countries do is randomly test at the border meat imports and exports. That's the kind of testing that happens to all other imports as well. But we randomly test them for all kinds of things, including pathogens, but also pesticides and so on.
On top of that, the two points I mentioned in my presentation, the fact that you have system equivalency and you have prior label approval, both those things are practised by both countries. If we want to export to the United States, we have to get prior label approval from the USDA for that product to go into the United States. Similarly, for an export from the United States, they would have to get prior label approval from the CFIA.
In effect, the inspectors in both countries act for each other to ensure that the regulations are being met, and they take those responsibilities very seriously. Often, loads are held up in the United States that are not being exported to Canada because an inspector has decided to take issue with the interpretation of a Canadian regulation. We have to get a Canadian inspector to intervene and correct the interpretation they're making and let them know that's not quite the way it is.
But they're very careful. In Canada we do exactly the same thing. Nothing can be exported to the United States that doesn't meet U.S. requirements.