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Health committee  No. We found out at the same time as all the other members of the working group that it was going to be FRAC that was going to be--

February 17th, 2011Committee meeting

Joyce Reynolds

Health committee  One of our challenges in the food industry—and we recognize that we have a lot of work to do to reduce the sodium in our products—is that if people's palates don't have an opportunity to adjust, they are going to be using that salt shaker more.

February 17th, 2011Committee meeting

Joyce Reynolds

Health committee  I think you'll find that where there are anomalies, in terms of products that have high sodium levels, those are going to be brought in line. These targets are very aggressive. And the taste profiles are going to change, there's no question about it, to me, in order to meet thos

February 17th, 2011Committee meeting

Joyce Reynolds

Health committee  I can't speak on behalf of packaged goods, but I can say that the reformulation is going to result in the use of ingredients that are going to be more expensive. There's no question that this is going to have an inflationary effect on the cost of food once the transformation of t

February 17th, 2011Committee meeting

Joyce Reynolds

Health committee  One of our challenges, as an industry, is we'd like to do more milk promotion; we would like to put more dairy products on our menu. But quite frankly, because the cost of milk is rising far faster than the cost of production, the Canadian Dairy Commission is pricing milk right o

February 17th, 2011Committee meeting

Joyce Reynolds

Health committee  Right now, all I can say is we have extremely aggressive targets to meet by 2016 to bring down our sodium from the current level of 3,400 to 2,300, and we are—

February 17th, 2011Committee meeting

Joyce Reynolds

Health committee  —committed as an industry to do the product reformulation in order to meet those targets.

February 17th, 2011Committee meeting

Joyce Reynolds

February 17th, 2011Committee meeting

Joyce Reynolds

Health committee  You can pull it right off the Internet. In fact, there are short bios on all 19 members of the FRAC.

February 17th, 2011Committee meeting

Joyce Reynolds

Health committee  I think what we have—

February 17th, 2011Committee meeting

Joyce Reynolds

Health committee  Trans fats are an example where the industry was extremely responsive. Again, as I say, sodium is more—

February 17th, 2011Committee meeting

Joyce Reynolds

Health committee  Yes, there was monitoring that was done, and Health Canada is committed to doing the same monitoring in terms of sodium.

February 17th, 2011Committee meeting

Joyce Reynolds

Health committee  That is something that Health Canada is working towards right now. They're in the process of—

February 17th, 2011Committee meeting

Joyce Reynolds

Health committee  According to population health surveying that Health Canada has done, that's right.

February 17th, 2011Committee meeting

Joyce Reynolds

Health committee  You mean the nutritionals?

February 17th, 2011Committee meeting

Joyce Reynolds