Rep. Gonzalez is concerned that we are behind on producing sterile flies to keep the screw worm from further movement north. He says USDA knew about the problem years ago. I alert them when that problem was in Chiapas, probably about two years ago. we visited USDA in the Texas, in the Hill country and met with an expert that told us we needed to be producing 700 million sterile flies a week to be able to hold, to be able to hold a screw worm back. (00:31–00:36)
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Asserts that Vicente Gonzalez alerted authorities about the screw worm problem in Chiapas two years ago.
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