Thank you, Mr. Speaker. I would like to thank the Member for the question. Mr. Speaker, I want to just confirm with the House and advise the public that all necessary steps have been taken since this public advisory or the warning came out from CFIA. All of the products were removed from the store. There is no sign that any of those products have ended up in any other stores. There have not been any cases of E. coli related incidents. The public health officer is talking to the public through the media to answer questions and get as much information as possible out there.

Mr. Speaker, in terms of the Member’s specific question, the CFIA website is fixed to range fed ground beef but the public health officer has included all ground beef products sold between February 8th and March 10th . The reason why the

public health officer has done that is because the grinding process at the Co-op dealt with not only this product but other products as well. There is a small but possible possibility of cross-contamination during the grinding process. In order to be absolutely safe and to make sure that our consumers do not have any chance of consuming this product, we are asking the public to take back or throw out any ground product bought from the Co-op between February 8th to March 10th . Thank

you, Mr. Speaker.