No, not necessarily from a regulation standpoint. Infection control and biosecurity are separate issues. Canada has quite robust biosecurity on farms to prevent things from accessing farms, especially foreign diseases and new diseases. That doesn't account for a lot of the diseases that are normally there that we have to control with antimicrobials, so they are two separate issues.
Testing is a challenge based on cost. It's always difficult to get testing done because the cost of the test may be much more than the cost of the animal, or the time frame may not be appropriate. Testing, whether that's testing in general or novel testing methods, is a very important control tool, as well as testing to identify disease processes so we know when to use and when not to use antimicrobials. There is definitely some ground to be made up there.
