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Prevention (CDC) maintains surveillance of foodborne 



illness. Consumers deserve better information about 

 illness related to seafood, and we need better CDC 

 surveillance so that we can understand more clearly the 

 role of seafood in causing illness, the sources of problems, 

 ways to correct those problems and therefore prevent 

 illness. Improved CDC, state, and local disease 

 surveillance will contribute greatly to more effective 

 evaluation of the seafood safety program and, indeed, all 

 our food safety programs. I pledge my support for 

 improvements in these CDC programs. 



The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) operates a 

 seafood safety program which includes standards setting, 

 mandatory inspection and sampling, and enforcement. 

 Congress has held oversight hearings about that program 



