Posted May 9, 2014
Senator Thad Cochran (R-MS), ranking member on the Senate Agriculture Committee, recently stated that he intends to continue the push to fully establish a catfish inspection program within USDA, according to an article by Y’all Politics available here.
In a Senate Agriculture Committee hearing on the implementation of the 2014 farm bill, Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack “testified that the USDA will be prepared to send a final rule establishing a catfish inspection program to the White House Office of Management and Budget (OMB) by the end of May.
“The USDA has made good progress to implement policies in the new farm bill, including the catfish inspection program. I appreciate that, but I intend to see that the food safety inspection program for catfish is successfully put in place,” Cochran said.
For background on the catfish inspection program, relevant posts from this blog are available hereand here. For more information on food safety, please visit the National Agricultural Law Center’s website here.
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