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Joe Pitts: “Explicitly creating a program exclusively for catfish seems to be unnecessary, and it directs resources away from…”

On the recordDecember 6, 2016
Explicitly creating a program exclusively for catfish seems to be unnecessary, and it directs resources away from high-risk foods.
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Joe Pitts
Republican · Pennsylvania

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Pitts argues against the necessity of the catfish inspection program.

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Dec 6, 2016

This seems to smack of food politics, not public health.

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The jurisdictional grab serves only to shield catfish farmers against competition at the expense of U.S. consumers.

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Both the FDA and the General Accountability Office agree that there is no food safety justification for this regulatory divide.

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