The listeriosis outbreak last summer was a unique situation, a unique outbreak and recall. Wave after wave of different products were recalled. I can't speak for CFIA in how they were determining what was coming up. As I said before, I wasn't involved in the plant investigation.
From a public health viewpoint, it was confusing, and it was difficult to operate under that system with different products coming out, because in our province we made an agreement with the CFIA that we would be responsible for verifying that the product was removed from certain establishments. Our responsibility was for institutions, hospitals, and long-term care facilities as well as food service restaurants.
The number of facilities involved was in the thousands, and as different products were recalled, our inspectors had to go back to these facilities and verify that. So it was a difficult time. It was a difficult outbreak.