Joe Pitts: “This is a good bill. It is an important bill. It is a bipartisan bill. I urge my colleagues to vote in favor of H.R.…”

The catfish inspection program is critical to public health.

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

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

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