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Agriculture committee  Exactly. There are many countries, as we mentioned, and the evidence—and again I can't preclude what the Japanese or the South Koreans were doing, but they have been very appreciative and positive about how we've responded and about the information we've given them. As Mr. Drouin said, in the report we've been open and transparent and we've shared the information.

June 20th, 2018Committee meeting

Fred Gorrell

Agriculture committee  That is a good question. In the United States, it was more or less a month.

June 20th, 2018Committee meeting

Fred Gorrell

Agriculture committee  You are welcome.

June 20th, 2018Committee meeting

Fred Gorrell

Agriculture committee  Thank you for the question. There were some similarities with the U.S., and one of the answers I want to give everybody is that in the 2013 Oregon case, the U.S. was never able to determine the origin. There's one example where it was. They were able to confirm that the product had not entered into the food system and that it did not represent food safety risks, but they were never able to understand or determine the origin.

June 20th, 2018Committee meeting

Fred Gorrell

June 20th, 2018Committee meeting

Fred Gorrell

June 20th, 2018Committee meeting

Fred Gorrell

Agriculture committee  Very much so, and again, I'm going to repeat myself, not because I like to hear myself say the same thing—

June 20th, 2018Committee meeting

Fred Gorrell

Agriculture committee  No, but from the Japanese and the Koreans we anticipated this because of the way they look at it. At the same time, they're continuing to take the U.S. product. Obviously people have due diligence: they have the right to test it. With everything we've done—the report, our testing, and their being here—we are feeling very confident that we'll resume normal trade in due course.

June 20th, 2018Committee meeting

Fred Gorrell

Agriculture committee  It's an interesting.... One of the things I want to say is that it's an isolated event, but it's a very serious event, for all of the reasons we're talking about. David just outlined how much work we've done and the system has taken. We're being proactive but at the same time not trying to be alarmist.

June 20th, 2018Committee meeting

Fred Gorrell

Agriculture committee  That's a good question. Just so you know, all the testing kits have been provided to those countries that you mentioned. They've already been done, so between the announcement on Friday and our communication and talking to them through our posts, the kits have been provided and they're using them in their labs.

June 20th, 2018Committee meeting

Fred Gorrell

Agriculture committee  It's a good question. I won't prejudice the concluding comments by the Japanese or the South Koreans, but we do have lessons learned from what we saw with the United States. You're looking at four weeks, six weeks—a month. I think the evidence that we have is very well suited if not better than what the United States had, but that would give us a testing idea.

June 20th, 2018Committee meeting

Fred Gorrell

Agriculture committee  Thank you for the question. It's a good question as well. First of all, in terms of my opening comments, we anticipated, out of all of the markets in the world.... We learned from the U.S. experience. In fact, there were some good lessons learned. Japan and South Korea reacted that way with the United States.

June 20th, 2018Committee meeting

Fred Gorrell

Agriculture committee  I'm going to ask my colleague David Bailey to respond to that.

June 20th, 2018Committee meeting

Fred Gorrell

Agriculture committee  Thank you for the question. Your point on information is noted. We have heard similar comments from others, and we'll take note of that going forward. I appreciate that. Relative to the Japanese government, as well as other governments, they were advised as the announcement was going forward.

June 20th, 2018Committee meeting

Fred Gorrell

Agriculture committee  I'm going to give you a part of the answer and then ask my colleague David Bailey to also help. This is new for us. This is a sensitive issue, as people appreciate, and information such as this can affect markets. I think we're all aware of that. As you indicated, key industry stakeholders, leaders in the industry, were advised an hour or an hour or so in advance.

June 20th, 2018Committee meeting

Fred Gorrell