Screeria nigeria. National review host an idea summit examining conservatism. Next, a hearing on seafood industry and regulations. Louisiana senator david vitter has introduced legislation that would increase inspection standards on imported seafood to ensure foreign inspectors meet Safety Standards. This hearing is an hour and 20 minutes. Good afternoon. Were going to start our hearing today on the impact of federal labor and safety laws on the u. S. Seafood industry. Thanks for joining us today. Were going to be hearing from two panels of expert witnesses and stakeholders a federal panel who ill introduce in a minute and then a stakeholder panel. I want to thank all of our witnesses for being here today to testify on these important issues. As anyone who has visited louisiana knows, we enjoy great quality seafood and that plays a major role in our culture and in our economy. And this is true for other states in the United States. It is an important part of our economy. In louisiana t
To for the agency to meet statutory obligations. As dr. Sullivan fully described, i will not duplicate that discussion. I will close, though, speaking to results. Results afterall, what matters. The centers for Disease Control analyzed illnesses from all foods. Over the fiveyear period ending in 2010, cdc found that 141 of 122,000 that is 0. 001156 or 0. 12 illnesses caused by imported seafood. Most of us love baseball. Great day to be out for the nats game. But we recall going to the games with our dads. Hoipg to clutch that mitt and catch that foul ball. Unfortunately, we often came home crest fallen because we rarely ever did. The chance of catching the foul ball. 0. 001156 or 0. 12 . As an example of effectiveness of fda and while this is the hearing focus not only the fda captures program, i did want to acknowledge the leadership of senator shaheen and ayotte and others on this committee working in a bipartisan manner to eliminate a program that usdas own risk experts said will no
I want to try to explore some of the different Delivery Systems that youre talking about there, whether its space heating, efficient design, housing technologies. I was out in an isolated territory with the secretary of state on friday. You realize how isolated these communities are, even communities of significant size and significant resource. But the challenges they face, they also are exclusively powered by diesel. And expensive. Extraordinarily, extraordinarily expensive. So how we deal with this. And weve got so much to learn from one another. And this is where i think we have certain advantages coming at us as we take over the chair of the arctic counsel, how we can be partnering with our northern neighbors in understanding some of the best technologies that are out there. But i would encourage us to look at what we have, developing in alaska, whether its the Cold Climate Housing Research center, the Innovative Technologies that have been coming out of there in regards to sustai
Crops, sugar processing, forestry, livestock, Restaurant Industry and others. This would leave the United States and the state of louisiana no alternative but to import many Food Products for food countries, from countries with surplus foreign labor. This is unacceptable. We must do everything in our power to grow and support americas jobs and economy. Were asking for your help. We must streamline and expedite the h2b process. We need a working system without overburdensome rules, unrealistic timetables and outright road blocks. Neglecting the labor needs of agriculture will raise the cost and the production in a way that harms farmers, fishers and industries throughout america. I appreciate your time and encourage you to work with us to find workable solutions. Ways that we can facilitate rather than making it so difficult to where our processors and our industries cannot operate. Where were at currently, we have a large crawfish harvest. And we dont have enough peelers to process it.
Port of entry. What in your overall system today categorically prevents that . So we have a notification system. When we refuse an entry that electronic notification system not only notifies customs and border protection, but all the other fda district offices imports. And so how is that batch tagged indelibly so that that notification is meaningful so that those other ports can identify the same batch were talking about. So as you may be aware, weve been looking working for many years to try to get a marking rule that would provide that marking of the product. That is not in place yet. But right now, we do notifications based off the data that we have on who the importer, is what the commodity line is, and make sure everyone is aware about that shipment was refused. So if they there isnt a set marking rule. So if they change the packaging or any of the markings, they could very possibly get away with what im describing . The system is not foolproof. I agree with you. But we do do noti