Agriculture committee  Just so I make sure I understand your question, it's sort of the reverse. We have GMOs contaminating—and I hesitate to use the word “contaminate”....we have the presence.... Are you talking more about organic crops when you say natural? Yes. Okay. I think that is part of furthe

Agriculture committee  One moment, please. Regarding the process, we started in 2011 and we've had several in-person meetings. We have just completed an online consultation. We are waiting for Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada to consider the comments they have received, the feedback, which includes ex

Agriculture committee  I think that Canada already has a system in place where they are carefully monitoring the proliferation of GMOs. Certainly we are about to see a fairly significant number of new kinds of GMOs in the marketplace. Although the number is big, it's something that we know Health Canad

Agriculture committee  I think I'll defer to Stephen on that, because it's certainly at an earlier stage in the supply chain.

Agriculture committee  I'll answer, and perhaps you can jump in. I want to just go back to the statement so that it's really clear to understand that we're talking about genetic modified events that have already been declared safe for human consumption by a competent authority. So we know this is safe

Agriculture committee  I'm afraid that's not my area of expertise within FCPC. Certainly this has been a big topic of discussion. Because GMOs have been recognized as perfectly safe food, when Health Canada approves that novel trait that commodity then becomes food. We understand Health Canada's posit

Agriculture committee  I probably can't add anything to what Mr. Yarrow said.

Agriculture committee  I think it's the predictability that we need, and having a policy in place that clearly spells out what the rules are will help everyone, absolutely.

Agriculture committee  We can't answer what the level is because we don't believe there has been enough science-based information to determine what that level should be. The numbers we are referring to in the discussion today reflect the real-life situation of a fairly mature GMO situation in North A

Agriculture committee  Zero tolerance is not the way.

Agriculture committee  Absolutely. We do have member companies that do organic and we also have some member companies that have products that we call identity-preserved or for other terms, GMO-free.

Agriculture committee  At this point because we really haven't seen enough science we haven't really been able to discuss what those thresholds would be. But we all agree that this is something that has to be managed. It's better to be proactive than to suddenly discover we have a serious problem on ou

Agriculture committee  Thank you very much, and good afternoon. Food and Consumer Products of Canada welcomes this opportunity to contribute to the Standing Committee on Agriculture and Agri-Food’s consideration of the proposed policy to manage the low-level presence of genetically modified organisms.