Ms. Linda Morrison (Associate Director, Feed Section, Animal Health and Production Division, Animal Products Directorate, Canadian Food Inspection Agency): We set the nutrient standards based on published literature. We work with the Expert Committee on Animal Nutrition and the Canadian Feed Industry Association when we establish standards, as well as with whatever a company wishes to submit in support of a change of nutrient.

In addition, the Commission has consulted and reported regularly to the working party of Chief Veterinary Officers, the Standing Committee on the Food Chain and Animal Health (Section Animal Nutrition) and the Veterinary Pharmaceutical Committee.

Ms. Kathleen Sullivan (General Manager, Animal Nutrition Association of Canada): On behalf of the Animal Nutrition Association of Canada, I'd like to thank you, Mr. Chair and committee members, for the opportunity to comment today on Bill C-27.

‘Fork to farm’ — food (including seafood), health and well being: Consumer, societal, cultural, industrial and health as well as traditional aspects of food and feed, including behavioural and cognitive sciences; nutrition, diet-related diseases and disorders, including childhood and adult obesity and allergies; nutrition in relation to the prevention of diseases (including increased knowledge of the health bringing compounds and properties of food); innovative food and feed processing technologies (including packaging and technologies from non-food fields); improved quality and safety, both chemical and biological, of food, beverage ...[+++]s and feed; enhanced food safety assurance methodologies; integrity (and control) of the food chain; physical and biological environmental impacts on and of food/feed chains; impact on, and resistance of, food chains to global changes; total food chain concept (including seafood and other food raw materials and components); traceability and its further development; authenticity of food; development of new ingredients and products.

In view of the need for an integrated approach to the food chain and animal and plant health in order to protect consumers, it is important to include all issues of food legislation in the consultation systems, including aspects relating to the labelling and presentation of food and feed, safety of food and feed, human nutrition in relation to food legislation, animal health, including measures relating to animal welfare, and the various aspects of plant health, such as plant protection, plant protection products and their residues, a ...[+++]nd conditions for the marketing of seed and propagation material, including biodiversity, and including matters pertaining to industrial property.

Paul Wideman, President of W-S Feed & Supplies Ltd. and Director on the Executive committee, Animal Nutrition Association of Canada: My name is Paul Wideman. I sit on the Board of Directors of the Animal Nutrition Association of Canada, also known as ANAC.