Another California-based company is recalling catfish from Vietnam because it was not presented for import reinspection. Federal officials discovered the problem while they were performing a recall effectiveness review involving fish imported by different company.
The new recall, involving TV Food LLC of San Leandro, CA, affects almost 28,000
Continue Reading More frozen catfish from Vietnam recalled for lack of import reinspection
In the fiscal year 2019 budget that sets out to cut domestic programs by almost $700 billion over 10 years, federal food safety has not only escaped the knife but made some small gains.
President Donald J. Trump’s $1.1 trillion discretionary budget proposal adds $9.4 billion to the Department of
Continue Reading It gives only a little, but Trump budget takes nothing way from food safety programs
The USDA’s Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) adjusted inspection coverage at catfish slaughter facilities on Sept. 1, the same day an 18-month transition period ended. The transition period’s end marks the full transfer of responsibility for inspecting domestic and imported catfish to FSIS from the U.S. Food and Drug
Continue Reading FSIS adjusts catfish inspection process; transition period ends
The activist group Food and Water Watch is down as a “strong supporter” of the catfish program now underway in USDA’s Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS). It would, however, like to see more progress and doesn’t like the inclusion of a couple foreign establishments that FSIS has allowed to
Continue Reading USDA says activists off the mark with catfish complaints
A California company has added more than a ton of fish from Vietnam to its ongoing recall, bringing the amount of individually frozen Swai fillets now subject to recall to almost 28,000 pounds. 
The Santa Anna, CA, company — U.S. Cato Holdings Inc. — distributed the newly recalled 2,235
Continue Reading U.S. importer expands recall of Swai fillets from Vietnam
Educational sessions on the new rule for inspecting siluriformes, which include catfish, are set for Jan. 21 and 27. The rule goes into effect March 1. 
The U.S. Department of Agriculture published the final rule Dec. 2 in the Federal Register. Staff from the department’s Food Safety Inspection Service
Continue Reading Educational meetings set on catfish final rule
Long-awaited U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) catfish inspections, mandated by Farm Bills since 2008, will begin next March, according to a final rule establishing an inspection program for fish in the order Siluriformes, including catfish. The final rule, which applies to both domestically raised and imported Siluriformes fish, was
Continue Reading USDA Plans to Begin Catfish Inspections in March 2016
If food safety put catfish under USDA inspection, can shrimp be far behind? That question is coming into focus this week after one of USDA’s top two food safety officials told a gathering of food policy wonks on Tuesday that the final rule for the agency’s takeover of catfish inspections
Continue Reading Coming USDA Catfish Inspections Raise Question: Could Shrimp Be Next?
The USDA catfish inspection program, first authorized in 2008, is continued in the 2014 farm bill, which also includes a first-of-its-kind “crop insurance” program for catfish farmers. Most of the so-called political experts were predicting it would go the other way. One paid prognosticator went so far as to suggest
Continue Reading U.S. Catfish Farmers Emerge As Big Winners in 2014 Farm Bill
The House Agriculture Committee voted to repeal a controversial catfish inspection program at the U.S. Department of Agriculture late Wednesday night – a sign the program, which was mandated by the 2008 farm bill to help protect U.S. catfish farmers from cheap imports, may be headed for the chopping block.
Continue Reading House Ag Committee Votes to Repeal USDA Catfish Inspection
