Subcommittee on Food Safety committee  Certainly one of the things we have seen is an increase in products from around the world. Part of that is due to consumer demand. Consumers travel. Consumers buy products. They come home, and they'd like to see those products on our shelves. Certainly from the CCDG members' standpoint and the industry standpoint, food safety is a top concern in all realms, regardless of where the product is sourced.

Subcommittee on Food Safety committee  Food safety, certainly, is first and foremost. Sometimes it is the quantity that can actually be supplied to you. That can be a situation. The quality of the product comes into play, depending on product specifications. Is the company able to meet the quantity of product you need to supply your outlets?

Subcommittee on Food Safety committee  From the standpoint of media communication, what we're saying is that the communication to media and industry should be at the same time and not one ahead of the other. It should be one to many, which is the current system through the CFIA webmaster, whereby it goes out electronically to anyone who chooses to subscribe to the webmaster, including any consumer who wishes to do so.

Subcommittee on Food Safety committee  Generally speaking, when it's a recall, it is from CFIA. In terms of voluntary versus mandatory, there really isn't a difference. The mandatory recall occurs only if a firm was determining that it would not do a recall when CFIA thought it should be. All recalls are reacted to in the same fashion, and the information that triggers the recall is the information that comes from CFIA.