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{
"time": "2012-03-28 16:05:00",
"attribution": {
"en": "Mr. Michael Burt",
"fr": ""
},
"content": {
"en": "<p data-HoCid=\"2789862\" data-originallang=\"en\">I would point out two things. One is on the international scale. Market access is a very important issue. Food is probably, more than any other industry, subject to various forms of barriers that are in place internationally. Just recently, and I'm sure you're all aware, South Korea finally allowed access to Canadian beef. How many years after BSE? Pressing forward on that market access issue in international markets is key to us being successful in international markets.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"2789863\" data-originallang=\"en\">Domestically, I would agree with David in the sense that probably one of the biggest issues around the development of new and innovative products is ensuring that the regulatory system is able to quickly, whether it's feed for animals or additives for food...and a great example would be putting lentils into pasta. By moving away from the traditional food framework that we think of, food products, we should not be preventing companies from being innovative and making these experiments, making these improvements to our food, because the regulatory system is hindering them from doing so.</p>",
"fr": "<p data-HoCid=\"2789862\" data-originallang=\"en\">Je ferai remarquer deux choses. D'abord, \u00e0 l'\u00e9chelle internationale, l'acc\u00e8s aux march\u00e9s est un enjeu tr\u00e8s important. Les aliments, probablement plus que tout autre produit industriel, sont soumis \u00e0 diverses barri\u00e8res internationales. Tout r\u00e9cemment, et vous le savez sans doute, la Cor\u00e9e du Sud a enfin ouvert son march\u00e9 au boeuf canadien. Combien d'ann\u00e9es apr\u00e8s la vache folle? Pour r\u00e9ussir sur les march\u00e9s internationaux, il faudra d\u00e9sormais insister pour y avoir acc\u00e8s.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"2789863\" data-originallang=\"en\">En ce qui concerne notre pays, je dirais, comme David, que, probablement, l'une des principales conditions favorables \u00e0 l'innovation serait que la r\u00e9glementation puisse rapidement..., qu'il s'agisse d'aliments destin\u00e9s aux animaux ou d'additifs alimentaires... Un excellent exemple serait de faire entrer les lentilles dans la composition des p\u00e2tes alimentaires. En s'\u00e9loignant de la fa\u00e7on traditionnelle de percevoir les aliments, les produits alimentaires, nous ne devrions pas emp\u00eacher, par la faute de la r\u00e9glementation, les entreprises d'innover ni d'exp\u00e9rimenter ni d'am\u00e9liorer nos aliments.</p>"
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