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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.

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.