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Joe Pitts: “Both the FDA and the General Accountability Office agree that there is no food safety justification for this regulatory…”

On the recordDecember 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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Joe Pitts
Republican · Pennsylvania

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Pitts cites FDA and GAO agreement on the lack of justification for catfish regulation.

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