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Health committee Nothing is confidential about the amount that is provided. It's all in the public accounts, and we're happy to provide that.
April 22nd, 2020Committee meeting
Sally Thornton
Health committee Yes, we have. I'm not quite sure about the date, but a number of our locations are certified under good manufacturing processes, and we have regular audits now.
April 22nd, 2020Committee meeting
Sally Thornton
Health committee I don't have the dates.
April 22nd, 2020Committee meeting
Sally Thornton
Health committee It would depend on the nature of the broker or the type of procurement.
April 22nd, 2020Committee meeting
Sally Thornton
Health committee We have a bunch of different suppliers. When things come here, we do a visual inspection first. For instance, you look at a mask and you can tell if there are perforations where there shouldn't be. You pull the elastic and it's soft—
April 22nd, 2020Committee meeting
Sally Thornton
Health committee Things can easily pass the visual inspection, but then we have to take them for lab testing. That's to check what goes through the mask, the permeability, both in terms of airflow and—
April 22nd, 2020Committee meeting
Sally Thornton
Health committee We prefer to do them here. It's good to have our National Research Council, our own testing and our own engineers taking a look at it. We're very cautious about what we send out to health care workers and we don't want them to be inadvertently put in a—
April 22nd, 2020Committee meeting
Sally Thornton
Health committee The greater the quality control in China, definitely the better the quality we would receive here.
April 22nd, 2020Committee meeting
Sally Thornton
Health committee Yes.
April 22nd, 2020Committee meeting
Sally Thornton
Health committee We would have to follow up on that number.
April 22nd, 2020Committee meeting
Sally Thornton
Health committee For that number, we'd have to do calculations on burn rate. I would just caution that a procurement order is not the same as what we receive.
April 22nd, 2020Committee meeting
Sally Thornton
Health committee We don't offer it for sale, but we will distribute it.
April 22nd, 2020Committee meeting
Sally Thornton
Health committee Not necessarily. We've had cases, particularly with third world countries during the Ebola outbreak. Just let me grab my—
April 22nd, 2020Committee meeting
Sally Thornton
Health committee Depending on the nature of the item, yes.
April 22nd, 2020Committee meeting
Sally Thornton
Health committee Antivirals, which are where we are active, happen regularly.
April 22nd, 2020Committee meeting
Sally Thornton