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The time of 10 o'clock having arrived, I will call this subcommittee meeting to order.

It seems illogical that the USDA would be given the exclusive authority to oversee and regulate catfish only while the FDA regulates all other seafood.

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

Explicitly creating a program exclusively for catfish seems to be unnecessary, and it directs resources away from high-risk foods.