Ensure that can help companies area. Orward in that we have a few Different Things that are happening right now. Of Technological Development for encryption protocols that has the to makety Communications End to end secure, to cure devices in ways never been able to do before. If youre interested in software on your machine you can voluntarily obtain that Software Much whats lookrning is that if you at the, let me throw this out to the audience. How many much you encrypt your email voluntarily, manned hands. Number,n amazingly high how many of you are lying . How many of you use apple i to send texts to other people . Really, so thats really were. Not what i expected. Is a problem is that we now rely on centralized providers like google and apple take that technology which outside of this room is very itrly deployed and put interest product that everybody can use much if that process does not happen or if that process is circumstance cup cup gllz tblz the security benefits from encrypt
I was not the chairman when i came up and it is not permanent work. When i became chairman of h. R. Staffing were taken to make sure be redoing more collaborative vacation in psp like are you still advance it not . It is not within right now. It is in part in the spirit it is completely positive and we have been working with Stakeholder Community through an Advisory Panel on the issue of the single window and imports. We are running a pilot that will come out in a few and we are trying to get it right. We are having this exact collaborations. Okay, my time is out. Ive got one other question, but i will submit the question to you in writing. I thank you can yield back. A chair now recognizes the gentleman said from texas for five minutes. I think the chair. A special welcome to a former house colleague. Good to see you again. I want to talk about nanotechnology. As in 1985 graduate of Rice University in houston, texas we are proud that two of our professors robert crowe and Richard Smal
Priority of the agency now. I have one more question. You recently stated that the sole basis for recommendation to the ban of most widely used chemicals was cumulative Risk Assessment which found the majority of Citizens Advisory Panel recommendation which found the majority of risk associated with chemicals was from another chemical, dehp. Can you explain concerns for using cumulative Risk Assessment as a basis for such regulatory determination . Thank you. The chap and the proposed rule is of great concern to me has been of concern to me since the chap issued its report because i believe the chap report should have been a public should have been subject to public peer review at that point. From that point onto me the system and whole process has been flawed. The cumulative Risk Assessment youre talking about is one of my concerns in that the process thats used, thats not well accepted in the Scientific Community, cumulative Risk Assessment, so i think that goes to the process and va
Rule. All the Public Comment except one was against that. But i think what im hearing is you move forward with a little bit more of a heavy hand than what you would represent to us. And you say you want to be engaging the industry and you want to be collaborative, but what i the feedback im getting, those are your words but your actions are much more heavyhanded. That youve determined what you want as the outcome. Thereby, youre going to let people think theyre participating, but in the end youre the rule maker and youre going to get your way. So do you feel like that is a collaborative atmosphere in trying to work with the industry and how would you respond to those type of comments made about the way you all are approaching rule making . Is that for me . Yes, sir. Youre the chairman. And is that question specific to the 1110 rule or more general . It is specifically to 1110, but in general when it comes to dealing with industry. Sure. So ill address both. The 1110 rule is in indefini
To you that with this in mind what actions have you taken in the past year to provide relief to companies with respect to costs of Third Party Testing requirements . Thank you congresswoman. One of the areas we found interesting, and this was discovered by Small Business ombudsman, i dont want to get the commissioner upset since it involves his prior occupation, but we found a lot of Third Party Labs are testing for services that are not required and so our Small Business ombudsman and his Office Provide phenomenal support and assistance working with Small Businesses and i encourage any members with Small Businesses that have issues, reach out to neil cohen of cpsc because he can work with companies to go through testing reports and find out whether or not they really need certain testing. He doesnt actually go line by line, but he says here are general guidances and questions you should be asking. He really does a phenomenal job of empowering a lot of companies. Thats gone a huge way