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Subcommittee on Food Safety committee A general animal health strategy was designed by CFIA, and the farm animal health side of the business has been dealing with this, I would say, for a couple of years. The assistant deputy ministers--federal, provincial, territorial--have decided to pick it up and try to work with
May 4th, 2009Committee meeting
Richard Doyle
Subcommittee on Food Safety committee In the farm animal health strategy we use the Animal Health Coalition, which groups most of the farm livestock industry. So we have the Canadian Cattlemen's Association, the Dairy Farmers of Canada, the Canadian Pork Council, the poultry sectors, the smaller industries like the g
May 4th, 2009Committee meeting
Richard Doyle
Subcommittee on Food Safety committee It's not just the industry.
May 4th, 2009Committee meeting
Richard Doyle
May 4th, 2009Committee meeting
Richard Doyle
Subcommittee on Food Safety committee Slightly over 13,000. I think we're at 13,400 right now.
May 4th, 2009Committee meeting
Richard Doyle
Subcommittee on Food Safety committee There are different steps. It's a fairly elaborate program where you need to have people go on the farm and check everything. You have to fill in all the forms, and then you have a validator who goes in. Before you're totally registered, it's a fairly.... Right now 10% have been
May 4th, 2009Committee meeting
Richard Doyle
Subcommittee on Food Safety committee I think it varies. As I said, the hardest part in selling a program like that.... The farmers generally have supported this; otherwise it wouldn't be there. We're run by farmers, so obviously there was a will and a willingness to do it. When you go into the field and try to sel
May 4th, 2009Committee meeting
Richard Doyle
Subcommittee on Food Safety committee We're talking about auditors, basically. We'll go on the farms, visit the farms, and make sure that all the practices that are part of the program have been followed by the producers. So they will re-inspect. These are not CFIA inspectors. These are people who are on the program,
May 4th, 2009Committee meeting
Richard Doyle
Subcommittee on Food Safety committee They'd be certified under the CFIA program, yes.
May 4th, 2009Committee meeting
Richard Doyle
Subcommittee on Food Safety committee We're paying for it. That's the difference.
May 4th, 2009Committee meeting
Richard Doyle
Subcommittee on Food Safety committee Maybe history. Milk has been safe for a long time and continues to be safe. As I said before, it's still the most tested product. Pasteurization has a lot to do with it, because you're talking about liquid milk. In this country, we pasteurize all the milk that is sold to consumer
May 4th, 2009Committee meeting
Richard Doyle
Subcommittee on Food Safety committee Actually, yes. To be frank, absolutely. But it's not necessarily an indication that the farmers do not put a lot of emphasis on how safe the product is. It's because the farmers themselves feel how safe the product is, because they consume it. They produce the milk and they consu
May 4th, 2009Committee meeting
Richard Doyle
Subcommittee on Food Safety committee I would just like to correct one point. To my knowledge, there are no inspectors in plants all the time. There are provincial and federal inspection procedures. However, the inspectors do not work in the same way as those in slaughterhouses; the situation is somewhat different.
May 4th, 2009Committee meeting
Richard Doyle
Subcommittee on Food Safety committee Yes, indeed. The problem is, the way the mechanism works, you have to make a complaint. You have to find them and then report them to CFIA. That's all you hear about it, so you never know what follow-up has taken place. You have to keep trying to see if those products are still c
May 4th, 2009Committee meeting
Richard Doyle
Subcommittee on Food Safety committee It is an issue of protecting the consumers from being misled. This is important. To build on what Robert was talking about, we haven't quite addressed the prior approval issue. Every week we find products improperly labelled and in the marketplace. This occurs for all kinds of
May 4th, 2009Committee meeting
Richard Doyle