Agriculture committee  Right now, no, the cost is not being passed, but what we have is our normal sampling program. We designed this program based on our radars, what we have found as problem areas. So within the same sampling program, we reorient what we were spending before, we reorient our resources to areas where we are finding issues.

Agriculture committee  One point is that we are still in discussions with the FDA. In fact, there's a meeting of CFIA officials with the USFDA on Thursday. Based on our discussion, I totally agree with you. If there are issues where the USFDA cannot assure us they have taken some strong measures in order to assure us of the safety of leafy greens and spinach, we will definitely have to do something drastic.

Agriculture committee  Thank you for giving me this opportunity to clarify our position on spinach. Basically, you're right, there was at least one Canadian consumer who was sick with spinach. We did confirm that it was linked with the spinach originating from California. The steps and the measures we took were, number one, that we did a recall for the spinach that was implicated, and that was from California, in the area of Salinas.

Agriculture committee  Again, yes, that's true. There have been, I believe, up to 20 outbreaks in the California area, and we have our bleepers out. It's not only spinach, but it has been lettuce, tomatoes, green onions, etc. We have been taking additional measures, incremental measures, as we find more information, with fresh produce in Canada.

Agriculture committee  I have nothing to add at this moment.