Thank you, Madam Chair.
To expand a bit on what David said, the electronic laboratory surveillance--what I like to call the virtual laboratory ability--linking labs across the country is a very powerful tool. We've been working on enhancing that.
Even with the listeria outbreak in 2008, we were able to detect a national outbreak when there were only eight cases in the country, at a very early point. If we didn't have that system, we might have found it weeks later. Many more people could have eaten food that was contaminated and potentially become ill.
I think this system is highly effective in early detection of national outbreaks.