Thank you very much for the question. I'm happy to have the opportunity to talk about what I picked up from previous conversations has been a challenging area for us, which is to process all of the natural health product applications that we have before us.
As the member has pointed out, at one point we had a deadline for trying to deal with all of the backlog, the natural health products that existed prior to the introduction of the legislation. We've been working through that. At one point we talked about that backlog. At the same time we're dealing with the incoming products that were coming to us as a regulator.
What we have done, and I think we talked about this at the committee last time, is we recognized that we wanted to give new producers access to the market and we wanted to give Canadians access to new products, so we introduced new regulations. We spoke about them a little when I was here in November. I am talking about UPLAR, the unprocessed product licence applications regulations. It doesn't trip off the tongue easily, I admit. It is a process whereby we look at ongoing submissions very quickly to make sure they meet safety and quality concerns. If we think they can be put on the market, we look at them very quickly and within 180 days we give them either a natural health product number, having done a complete review, or an exemption number.