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Agriculture committee It's Environment and Climate Change Canada.
September 29th, 2016Committee meeting
Paul Mayers
Agriculture committee Right.
September 29th, 2016Committee meeting
Paul Mayers
Agriculture committee I can start. My colleague from Health Canada will want to speak. In Canada, the labelling responsibility with respect to food is a shared responsibility between CFIA and Health Canada. All of the non-health-related and safety-related labelling considerations are managed by CFIA—and, of course, the enforcement of the entire labelling framework—while Health Canada sets the policies with respect to health labelling.
September 29th, 2016Committee meeting
Paul Mayers
Agriculture committee Absolutely.
September 29th, 2016Committee meeting
Paul Mayers
Agriculture committee We take a risk frame to that in deploying our resources in that regard, so for those generic claims where we've provided guidance, yes, it's predominantly complaint driven.
September 29th, 2016Committee meeting
Paul Mayers
Agriculture committee That's correct. While if you were to say that it is a nut-free product, that's something we're going to pay very close attention to because of the health implications if that's not truthful.
September 29th, 2016Committee meeting
Paul Mayers
September 29th, 2016Committee meeting
Paul Mayers
Agriculture committee Absolutely.
September 29th, 2016Committee meeting
Paul Mayers
Agriculture committee It's important to understand that the part of the assessment that would be most relevant to your question is the assessment related to environmental release. That assessment hasn't been done in terms of commercial fish, so, as is the case for everything else, until the assessment is done, I wouldn't want to make any statement.
September 29th, 2016Committee meeting
Paul Mayers
Agriculture committee Absolutely. The approval CFIA has provided regarding feed safety and the approval Health Canada has applied to food safety relate to the salmon itself. So whether that salmon was produced in Panama, as is the intention currently, or it was produced in Prince Edward Island, those feed and food safety assessments for salmon would still apply.
September 29th, 2016Committee meeting
Paul Mayers
Agriculture committee Yes. Canada is one of the countries with significant experience that many countries look to when they are contemplating how they're going to manage GM products.
September 29th, 2016Committee meeting
Paul Mayers
Agriculture committee And we should be proud of it.
September 29th, 2016Committee meeting
Paul Mayers
Agriculture committee I don't, personally, but I'll go looking when we are done.
September 29th, 2016Committee meeting
Paul Mayers
Agriculture committee I don't have specific examples.
September 29th, 2016Committee meeting
Paul Mayers
Agriculture committee It was in 1993 when the first food product of GM—
September 29th, 2016Committee meeting
Paul Mayers