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TABLE 1: VIBRIO VULNIFICUS WARNING TEXTS
| Survey Question | State | ||||
| AL | FL | LA | MS | TX | |
| Does your State mandate V.v. warnings on shellstock shipping tags? | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Is the warning required year round? | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Level of compliance among harvesters? | Very Good | N/A | 100% | ~100% | |
| Level of compliance among dealers? | Very Good | 100% | 100% | ~100% | 100% |
| Does this requirement apply to product shipped from another state into your state? | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Is the text of the warning specified? | Yes, by regulation (1) | Yes, by regulation (1) | Yes, by regulation (1) | Yes, by regulation (1) | No |
| Is the text required in any other language but English? | No | No | No | No | No |
| Does your State mandate V.v. warnings on shucked oyster product? | No | Yes | Yes | No | No |
| Is the warning required year round? | Yes | Yes | |||
| Level of compliance among dealers? | 100% | 100% | |||
| Does this requirement apply to product shipped from another state into your state state? | Yes | Yes | |||
| Is the text of the warning specified? | Yes, by regulation (1) | Yes, by regulation (1) | |||
| Is the text required in any other language but English? | No | No | |||
| Does your State require V.v. warnings to be posted in grocery stores, wholesale outlets or similar establishments? | No | Yes | Yes | No | Yes |
| Is the text of the warning specified? | Yes, by regulation (1) | Yes (1) | Yes, by regulation (1) | ||
| Is the text required in any other language but English? | No | No | No | ||
| Is there a required location for the warning? | Yes | No | No | ||
| Survey Question | State | ||||
| AL | FL | LA | MS | TX | |
| Does your State require V.v. warnings to be posted in restaurants, carryouts, bars, or similar establishments? | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Is the text of the warning specified? | Yes, by regulation (1) | Yes, by regulation (1) | Yes, by regulation (1) | No (1) | Yes, by regulation (1) |
| Is the text required to be in any other language but English? | No | No | No | No | No |
| Is there a required location for the warning? | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | No |
| Does your State require V.v. warnings to be placed on the menu in restaurants, carryouts, bars, or similar establishments? | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | No |
| Is the text specified? | No | Yes, by regulation (1) | No(1) | ||
| Is the text required to be in any other language but English? | No | No | No | ||
| Does your State mandate the use of any other type of V.v. warning? | No | No | No | No | No |
| Does your State distribute fliers, leaflets, brochures or other written materials carrying a warning concerning V.v.? | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Copies of FDA materials? | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Copies of Interstate Shellfish Sanitation Conference materials? | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | |
| Original to your State? | Yes (2) | Yes (2) | Yes (2) | Yes (2) | No |
| Has your State distributed/used the public service announcement prepared by the ISSC? | No | Yes | Yes | No | No |
| Does your State plan to distribute/use the public service announcement prepared by the ISSC? | Yes, depends on cost | No | Yes (2) | Yes | |
| Does your State have any specific plans to promote consumer awareness of the availability of post-harvest treated shellstock? | No | Yes (3) | No | Yes (3) | No |
| Survey Question | State | ||||
| AL | FL | LA | MS | TX | |
| Does your State require V.v. warnings to be posted in restaurants, carryouts, bars, or similar establishments? | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Has your State any other existing public education/ information program targeted at Vibrio vulnificus? | No | Yes (4) | No | Yes (4) | No |
| List any specific public education efforts concerning V.V. done in your state in the past 5 years. | see Table 4 | see Table 4 | see Table 4 | see Table 4 | see Table 4 |
| Does your State implement the controls required in ISSC Model Ordinance Chapter 8, Control of Shellfish Harvesting, .03 Shellstock Temperature Control? Is compliance required? | Yes | Yes, by regulation | Yes | N/A | Yes |
| Which Option does your State use? | Option 1, by regulation | Option 1 | Option 1, by regulation | State requirement | Option 1, by regulation |
| Level of compliance? | 99% | Unknown | 100% | 100% | 100% |
| Does your State audit the time of first shellstock harvested? | Yes (5) | Yes (5) | Yes (5) | Yes (5) | Yes (5) |
| Does your State mandate more stringent icing or refrigeration requirements than required in Options 1,2, or 3? | No | Yes | No | N/A required by reglation (5) | No |
| Level of dealer compliance? | Unknown | 100% | |||
| Does your State plan to mandate more stringent icing or refrigeration requirements than required in Options 1,2, or 3? | No | Yes, in FL risk manage plan | No | Already have more stringent requirement | No |
| Do dealers voluntarily meet more stringent icing or refrigeration requirements dockside than required in Options 1,2, or 3? | No | Yes | No | N/A, required by reglatino (5) | No |
| Does your State plan to work with dealers to obtain voluntary use of more stringent icing or refrigeration requirements dockside than that required in Options 1, 2 or 3? | Yes | Yes, FL risk manage plan | No | Already have more stringent requirement | No |
| Does your State plan to do demonstration projects with dealers to investigate the effects on shelf-life and variations in effectiveness as a result of seasonal differences? | No | Yes, in FL risk manage plan | No | Yes | No |
| Survey Question | State | ||||
| AL | FL | LA | MS | TX | |
| Does your State plan to offer incentives to harvesters to add icing or refrigeration capacity to boats? | No | Yes (4) | No | Yes (4) | No |
| Do harvesters in your State voluntarily ice or refrigerate shellstock on harvest boats | No | No | Yes (5) | No (5) | No |
| Level of compliance? | 5% | ||||
| Does your State plan to work with harvesters to obtain voluntary icing or refrigeration of shellstock on harvest boats? | No | No | No | Yes | No |
| Does your State plan to do demonstration projects with harvesters to investigate the feasibility of providing icing or refrigeration on harvest boats? | No | No | No | Yes | No |
| Does your State routinely audit dealers for compliance with the requirements of Model Ordinance Chapter IX, Transportation, .05 Shipping Times? | Yes (5) | Yes (5) | Yes (5) | Yes (5) | Yes (5) |
| Does any harvester or dealer in your State provide post-harvest treatment for V.v.? | Yes (6) | Yes (6) | Yes (6) | No | Yes (6) |
| Will your State begin the development of a V.v. Risk Management Plan prior to the 2001 ISSC Annual Meeting? | No | Yes | No | No | No |
| Will the Plan include implementing the ISSC Education/ Consumer Intervention Plan? | Yes | Yes (7) | |||
| Pre-harvest controls to reduce V.v. in shellstock? | Unknown | ||||
| Post-harvest controls to reduce V.v. in shellstock? | < /font> |
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| Survey Question | State | ||||
| AL | FL | LA | MS | TX | |
| Does your State plan to implement any of the following harvest controls in the coming oyster season? | |||||
| Labeling all oysters "for shucking by certified dealer only" when the Average Monthly Maximum water temperatures exceeds 75 degrees F? | No | No | No | No | No |
| Subjecting all oysters intended for the raw, half-shell market to an Authority approved post harvest treatment that reduces the V.v. level to 3 MPN/gm or less when the Average Monthly Maximum water temperatures exceeds 75 degrees F? | No | No | No | No | No |
| Closing shellfish harvest areas to the harvest of shellstock intended for the raw, half-shell market when the Average Monthly Maximum water temperatures exceed 75 degrees F? | No | No | No | No | No |
| Labeling all oysters for "shucking by a certified dealer" during the months of May through September inclusive? | No | No | No | No | No |
| Subjecting all oysters intended for the raw, half-shell market to an Authority approved post harvest treatment that reduces the V.v. level to 3MPN/gm during the months of May thorough September inclusive? | No | No | No | No | No |
| Closing shellfish harvest areas to the harvest of shellstock intended for the raw, half-shell market during the months of May thorough September inclusive? | No | No | No | No | No |
| List any control for V.v. that your State will continue or implement in the coming oyster season that was not addressed in any of the control measures above? | None | None (7) | None | Table 7 | None |
| List any practice that was not covered above that your state has in place or intends to put in place to reduce Vibrio vulnificus risk. | None | None | None | Table 7 | Table 7 |