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Health committee There are some alternatives. That is essentially the challenge, to assess the safety and also the accessibility. It's also a fact that in a lot of instances—and that's based on best practices elsewhere, known internationally—some of the alternatives are not cheap and will of cour
October 21st, 2009Committee meeting
Samuel Godefroy
Health committee Absolutely, yes.
October 21st, 2009Committee meeting
Samuel Godefroy
Health committee Based on the data that is currently available, it is possible, since we have seen efforts to reduce consumption elsewhere. I do not want to speculate on the future. We will have to wait and see how these efforts to reduce consumption can be implemented. If other committee members
October 21st, 2009Committee meeting
Samuel Godefroy
Health committee Labelling is not an end in and of itself; it is a tool but not a miracle solution. The main objective of labelling is to provide information, and setting up a panel on nutrition is already an important step. Furthermore, indicating amounts of sodium should be mandatory. In this c
October 21st, 2009Committee meeting
Samuel Godefroy
Health committee This is not a recent problem, as was stated, but the issue has been raised to a much greater extent since 2007, and since the announcement from the health minister that a Sodium Working Group was going to be established. There has been extra impetus since 2007. That doesn't mean
October 21st, 2009Committee meeting
Samuel Godefroy
Health committee There has been some progress but it is not a simple issue. We started more intensive efforts later than other countries, such as the United Kingdom which began in 2006. It should be pointed out however that sodium intake in Canada, currently, without our having yet implemented al
October 21st, 2009Committee meeting
Samuel Godefroy
Health committee Yes, I could start maybe with some elements of answers—
October 21st, 2009Committee meeting
Samuel Godefroy
Health committee —and maybe my colleagues could complete it. Definitely you're highlighting the complexity of the problem, because essentially we have an ingredient here that is ubiquitous in the food supply, that is present in a number of commodities. So given the health impacts that were ident
October 21st, 2009Committee meeting
Samuel Godefroy
Health committee There are definitely some delays in accomplishing the goals, and perhaps I would say there are several reasons for that. Some of it is related probably to the way the goals were set. There may have been over-ambitious goals originally when the sodium working group developed the d
October 21st, 2009Committee meeting
Samuel Godefroy
Health committee I could start.
October 21st, 2009Committee meeting
Samuel Godefroy
Health committee I guess there are two segments in your question, honourable member. You mentioned chemicals and additives, but you mentioned as well any types of issues related to food that have an impact on health. The answer to the second part of the question—whether there is an interest in de
October 21st, 2009Committee meeting
Samuel Godefroy
Health committee Thank you, Madam Chair. Good afternoon, honourable members. At the outset, like Dr. Hutchinson, I would like to apologize to committee members for being unable to table my opening remarks with you today. Unfortunately, again time did not allow for translation to be completed on
October 21st, 2009Committee meeting
Samuel Godefroy
Health committee That's excellent. Thank you. I would like to use this introduction to focus on some of the actions, including the regulatory actions, that will help address the serious public health concerns related to overconsumption of sodium in the Canadian food supply. These actions include
October 21st, 2009Committee meeting
Samuel Godefroy
Agriculture committee It is pretty much the same situation. At least in the scientific information that we have seen, there is minimum information right now that makes the comparison between organic products versus non-organic products vis-à-vis the presence of these types of contaminants. There are o
October 20th, 2009Committee meeting
Dr. Samuel Godefroy
Agriculture committee It would be considered a data element that could be useful.
October 20th, 2009Committee meeting
Dr. Samuel Godefroy