I also believe int'l trade statistics...stuff like reams of paperwork that make even the most earnest bureaucrats groan. The two don't have to be mutually exclusive, as I think most of this is posturing by all sides jockeying to have maximum flexibility.
Did you see that Mehar Manku who you met at the ADCOM, was at Laxdale (later AMRN) in Stirling, Scotland (2001-2004)? Same city (lipid knowledge cluster) as DR Tocher. These guys may know one another since they were doing applied research even if in different specialties (see below Lancet link for salmon/human studies mention). Perhaps, a shuffling is going on in re-ranking various biochemical theories of oxidation reactions by cellular locations, after R-it, which hints at some differences between the theories and real world.