Hollow victory?

by Wally Northway

Published: March 14,2010

Tags: Catfish Farmers of America, Catfish Journal, Food and Drug Administration, Joey Lowery, Senate Agriculture Appropriations Subcommittee, Taylor Webb, Thad Cochran, U.S. catfish industry, U.S. Department of Agriculture

USDA slashes catfish inspection budget   As of late, good news coming from the beleaguered U.S. catfish industry has been meager at best. So, it made headlines when, after years of lobbying by the industry, the 2008 Farm Bill approved the transfer of the inspection of imported fish from the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) [...]

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