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Health committee  In terms of harmonization, I would like to make the comment that my sense of working directly in this area is that we will never get to 100% harmonization, because regulators around the world will encounter situations once in a while where they will have legitimate differences of

February 3rd, 2015Committee meeting

Gord Kurbis

Health committee  Fair enough. One of the focus areas for our industry has been trying to work within the Codex system to come up with a more robust international reference point for setting these tolerances. A large majority of the countries that we export pulses to are countries that don't have

February 3rd, 2015Committee meeting

Gord Kurbis

Health committee  I'll be quick. When we look at a generation of international tolerances, it really does seem as though there are very few products that regulators don't agree on or come up with different approaches on. It seems to me that it's analogous to the pharmaceutical system, in which th

February 3rd, 2015Committee meeting

Gord Kurbis

Health committee  That's a great question. At the risk of offending my elect director, who employs me, I'll tell you a story. Earlier this year in California at a global harmonization workshop, which a bunch of grower groups attended, one of the representatives of one of the horticulture crop gro

February 3rd, 2015Committee meeting

Gord Kurbis

Health committee  Yes. It's the commercial operators that have bought grain from many farmers.

February 3rd, 2015Committee meeting

Gord Kurbis

Health committee  No. You'd be surprised. Those sorts of risks can't be easily insured. The difficulty here is that if there were a legitimate tolerance put in place that was evidence-based and you were non-compliant with it, well, your non-compliance would be your own fault, so you would lose s

February 3rd, 2015Committee meeting

Gord Kurbis

Health committee  In that case, the regulator can order the cargo to be destroyed or to be redirected. These things go out compliant with Canadian tolerance levels, and there are other countries around the world that would have similar tolerance levels.

February 3rd, 2015Committee meeting

Gord Kurbis

Health committee  That's correct.

February 3rd, 2015Committee meeting

Gord Kurbis

Health committee  On the first question, PMRA has shown real leadership in trying to lead the discussion with other international regulators to say that when we are creating international tolerances based on the same data packages, let's please have tolerances that look like they were created in t

February 3rd, 2015Committee meeting

Gord Kurbis

Health committee  There are now increased fees from industry to support registration applications at PMRA. One of our recommendations would be that instead of going into the general treasury those fees be funded back into PMRA to help with their resource constraints.

February 3rd, 2015Committee meeting

Gord Kurbis

Health committee  Thanks, Corey. Our messages today are that harmonized international systems are critical to our industry, and that cuts at PMRA have put that at risk. The act is workable in its current form with one potential caveat that I will elaborate on. As Corey has described, the intern

February 3rd, 2015Committee meeting

Gord Kurbis

Agriculture committee  Well, yes, in a way. The EU, for us, is a 110,000-tonne market for lentils, which is huge. It's our second largest. And because of that, when this problem hit, we pulled out all the stops in trying to resolve the technical issue that underpinned the issue that resulted in the rap

November 21st, 2013Committee meeting

Gord Kurbis

Agriculture committee  In general, the first range of products that we expect to make inroads on is baked products and also pastas. As you have probably seen, there are examples on North American retail shelves today of pastas that have been reformulated to include lentil and chickpea flours, essential

November 21st, 2013Committee meeting

Gord Kurbis

Agriculture committee  Yes. To that I might add that from time to time we really do encounter an issue that is technical in nature, with respect to moving along the process to establish regulatory tolerances. And when it's only technical and it hasn't yet gone political, then the forums that can bring

November 21st, 2013Committee meeting

Gord Kurbis

Agriculture committee  Yes, sure. I think that how that issue was resolved could almost be a case study for how well things could work if this one outcome, where we sped along the development of that MRL on a sort of ad hoc relationship basis.... I think the potential is to take that ad hoc, speedy app

November 21st, 2013Committee meeting

Gord Kurbis