We have spoken to the association itself and clarified with them that there are two provisions in the bill in terms of exclusions that would apply.
When people talk about universal precautions, etc., they're talking about protection for the worker and how to handle the taking of a blood sample from a potentially infected individual. What we have here is an exemption under clause 4 in terms of a pathogen occurring in its natural environment. So for someone who is infected, or whose blood is infected, that blood sample is considered a natural environment.
Further, in clause 37, there is an exemption for the people collecting the specimens. If you're just collecting the specimens for the purpose of diagnostic purposes, you're not taking out the pathogen to multiply and manipulate it as you would in a lab. To us, that was clear. That explanation was provided, and the association or society was content with that explanation.
We know there are many variations upon some of those questions, and again, we can also, in the regulation as it is set out, provide very specific exemptions for certain circumstances as these arise.