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and Procedures
−Removed: Our senior management is responsible
−Removed: for establishing and maintaining a system of disclosure controls and procedures, as defined in Rules 13a-15(e) and 15d-15(e) under the
−Removed: Securities Exchange Act of 1934, (the “Exchange Act”) designed to ensure that the information required to be disclosed by
−Removed: us in the reports we file or submit under the Exchange Act is recorded, processed, summarized and reported within the time periods specified
−Removed: in the Securities and Exchange Commission’s rules and forms.
−Removed: Disclosure controls and procedures include, without limitation, controls
−Removed: and procedures designed to ensure that information required to be disclosed by an issuer in the reports that it files or submits under
−Removed: the Exchange Act is accumulated and communicated to the issuer’s management, including its principal executive officer or officers
−Removed: and principal financial officer or officers, or persons performing similar functions, as appropriate to allow timely decisions regarding
−Removed: required disclosure.
−Removed: We have evaluated the effectiveness
−Removed: of the design and operation of our disclosure controls and procedures as of the end of the period covered by this Report under the supervision
−Removed: of and with the participation of management, including our Chief Executive Officer and our Chief Financial Officer.
−Removed: Based on that evaluation,
−Removed: our Chief Executive Officer and our Chief Financial Officer have concluded that as of the end of the period covered by this report, our
−Removed: disclosure controls and procedures were effective.
+Added: Management is responsible
+Added: for establishing and maintaining adequate internal controls over financial reporting.
+Added: Internal controls over financial reporting, as defined
+Added: in Rules 13a-15(e) and 15d-15(e) under the Exchange Act, refers to those policies and procedures and processes that pertain to the maintenance
+Added: of records that accurately and fairly reflect transactions with respect to our assets;
+Added: provide reasonable assurance that transactions
+Added: are recorded as necessary to permit preparation of financial statements in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles and
+Added: that receipts and expenditures are made only in accordance with authorization of our management;
+Added: and provide reasonable assurance regarding
+Added: the prevention and timely detection of unauthorized transactions with respect to our assets that could have a material effect on our financial
+Added: Because of inherent limitation,
+Added: internal control over financial reporting may not prevent or detect misstatements.
+Added: Also, projections of any evaluation of effectiveness
+Added: to future periods are subject to the risk that controls may become inadequate because of changes in conditions, or that the degree of
+Added: compliance with the policies or procedures may deteriorate.
+Added: Our management relies upon
+Added: the criteria established in the Internal Control-Integrated Framework issued by the Committee of Sponsoring Organizations of the Treadway
+Added: Commission (2013 framework) in designing a system intended to meet the needs of our Company and provide reasonable assurance for its assessment.
+Added: In connection with their review
+Added: of our internal controls over financial reporting for the three months ended March 31, 2023, our Chief Executive Officer and Chief Financial
+Added: Officer concluded that our internal controls over financial reporting were not effective as of March 31, 2023.
+Added: As reported in our 2022
+Added: Form 10-K, in connection with their review of our internal controls as of and for the year ended December 31, 2022, our management identified
+Added: certain material weaknesses in our internal controls over financial reporting which have yet to be remediated.
+Added: These weaknesses
+Added: related to design flaws in our IT systems, the effectiveness of management’s review controls over the determination of the methodology
+Added: used in determining the appropriate reserves to be taken with respect to certain excess quantities and slow moving inventory and the effectiveness
+Added: of management’s review controls over the income tax provision in our financial footnotes.
+Added: We are continuing to assess the actions
+Added: that need to be taken to remedy each of these material weaknesses.
+Added: Each of the material weaknesses noted will only be deemed to have been
+Added: remediated after the new controls and procedures have been in place for a sufficient period and management has concluded through appropriate
+Added: testing that the controls are operating effectively.
+Added: For more information, see Item 9A.
+Added: Controls and Procedures, included in our Annual
+Added: Report on Form 10-K.
+Added: During 2023, the Company intends
+Added: to implement new controls designed to remediate the aforementioned material weaknesses.
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