Joe Pitts: “So it is very important in a rural setting?”

The catfish inspection program is critical to public health.

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

Today's hearing will be taking a close look at the United States Preventive Services Task Force, created in 1984 as an independent, volunteer panel of 16 national experts in prevention, primary care, and evidence-based medicine and tasked…

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