Health committee  Thank you, Mr. Dosanjh, for your question. Let's start this way. As I said, Chicken Farmers of Canada believe that judicious use is the way to go. So do we just want to measure antibiotics by tonnes and reduce in that sense, or do we want to make sure we are moving away from tho

Health committee  The antibiotics we are using--especially the preventative ones--are for the most part class IV ionophores that have little or no human health relationship. So do we want to just reduce the amount of the ones that don't have a human connection, or are we more interested in finding

Health committee  This is preventative medicine. That is the point, and this is what we found in Europe. I'll ask Dr. Rosengren to talk about the European experience and what the real impact there is. As you move away from preventative antibiotics, if you have to treat a sick bird you're going to

Health committee  Yes, absolutely we do.

Health committee  Everything, every--

Health committee  Thank you, Mr. Chairman, and thank you for that accommodation. Thank you, members of the committee, for allowing Chicken Farmers of Canada to present before you today on judicious use of antibiotics in livestock production. Chicken Farmers of Canada is a national organization

Subcommittee on Food Safety committee  I would put our system and what we do in our industry up against anyone—absolutely anyone in terms of what we do. I work at a farm. I know what the regulations are, and I would say that certainly what we do on farm... We've gone through...and as you heard from Mr. Fuller, 83% of

Subcommittee on Food Safety committee  In a way, it's a matter of educating people. We mentioned that in the current system, there is a gap between the moment the consumer buys the product and the moment he eats it, and that this gap has to be covered. That is why we are contributing to an education partnership. The g

Subcommittee on Food Safety committee  That's right.

Subcommittee on Food Safety committee  I'm not sure exactly why they are doing it. I know that in a lot of cases, other countries, certainly.... If we're negotiating a veterinary agreement, we've always said we should be doing an equivalency in terms of inspections, CFIA-level inspection versus the level of inspection

Subcommittee on Food Safety committee  It is a big issue, and I think we're seeing it from this side as well, Mr. Shipley, in terms of some smaller provincial processors who, because they're provincially inspected, are not allowed to ship and sell their product outside the province. They may be located in a place wher

Subcommittee on Food Safety committee  Quickly on that one, in terms of us...product moves everywhere across the country. More and more—and we've heard it—you've got to get enough volume to meet a buyer of this size--product. You can't do it all at once. So the product does move a lot. It causes issues in terms of co

Subcommittee on Food Safety committee  Right.

Subcommittee on Food Safety committee  Thank you. In terms of the poultry rejection project, what you've got is CFIA inspectors off the line, and these are birds that are identified to be pulled off the line, and you're determining what can go back on and what's salvageable in that. In fact, the CFIA inspector will

Subcommittee on Food Safety committee  Yes, but we learned a great deal in 2004, there is no doubt of that. Absolutely. There is a group at CFIA that handles poultry and the incidents of avian flu, so these people are familiar with all the protocols, but perhaps they are not the same people who provided the advice at