Thank you, Mr. Chair. I'll share my time with Mr. Shipley.
Earlier, you left a couple of us with the impression that the only reason this wasn't caught last year is that there weren't enough inspectors--if there had been inspectors, they would have seen the material and would have insisted that the machines be torn down. But did you know that the CFIA did not have any specific requirement for slicer cleaning and disinfection practices prior to September 5? Their requirements included sanitization once a day. Those procedures had to be documented by the companies, verified, and validated, and it was on September 5, 2008, that they issued the advisory to industry that gave them very specific instructions for the full assembly of these slicers.
You had mentioned that CFIA inspectors know better than plant employees about the manufacturers' guidelines, but the reality is that neither the manufacturers nor the government—no one—anticipated that this was an issue in these machines, including, I assume, you and the folks at union headquarters and the folks who work for you.
As someone—I think Mr. Allen—mentioned, and we've heard it here before, the risk cannot be brought to zero. You left the impression that you would have been doing this, but in fact you would not have been doing it at the time, would you? Even if you had had inspectors there, you wouldn't have been doing this.