From the perspective of the food directorate, we set standards, policies, and regulations concerning food safety and nutritional quality. We certainly would like to continue monitoring the effectiveness of nutrition labelling regulations. It's a fairly new regulation, not fully implemented, and I think we would like to understand the real impact it's having on helping Canadians make better choices, or are they actually changing their eating patterns in relation to this information? Certainly we'd be interested in understanding evidence to support the development of any other policies or regulations that can support action on childhood obesity.
On September 21st, 2006. See this statement in context.