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Joe Pitts: “It seems illogical that the USDA would be given the exclusive authority to oversee and regulate catfish only while the…”

On the recordDecember 6, 2016
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.
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Joe Pitts
Republican · Pennsylvania

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Pitts questions the USDA's exclusive authority over catfish inspection.

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Dec 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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Sep 13, 2016

It is unfortunate that we have a Congress of the United States, the majority parties that want to just tear down this law.

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Dec 6, 2016

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

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Dec 6, 2016

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

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