On the food standards, we're often asked by either Health Canada, or as in the case of aquaculture, Fisheries and Oceans, to develop a standard by which they can then assure that facilities are run to the standard that was agreed to.
The inputs that come into that are health impact and biological impact. All those kinds of things are brought into that technical discussion and then developing a standard that addresses those issues is the discussion the technical committee goes through. It is, no pun intended, quite organic in the sense that you're bringing all the interests in. Obviously the aquaculture industry is interested in having something efficient, etc., but it also wants to ensure that its operations are acceptable to the public. So there are the health and biological impacts. That's why you have those other inputs to that discussion. That's what the technical committee does.
The makeup of that technical committee is quite important because the interest that is being addressed is not necessarily the interest that the originator wanted. You know, it wanted to have a good seal of approval on its facility, but the interest is the health and safety of Canadians, so those who know that come in.
The technical committees are each drawn up, and all this is public. The membership of the committee, the discussions of the committee, and the deliberations are all available on our site. The process is open and transparent.