Joe Pitts: “Moving forward, Congress should be thoughtful and data-driven in our approach.”

The catfish inspection program is critical to public health.

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

It is embarrassing that in the most capable country in the world, in the most powerful elected bodies in the world that we effectively have done almost nothing to improve the health care of Americans since this law has been passed.

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