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
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FSIS adjusts catfish inspection process; transition period ends
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
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USDA says activists off the mark with catfish complaints
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
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U.S. importer expands recall of Swai fillets from Vietnam
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
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Educational meetings set on catfish final rule
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
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USDA Plans to Begin Catfish Inspections in March 2016
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.
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Coming USDA Catfish Inspections Raise Question: Could Shrimp Be Next?
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
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U.S. Catfish Farmers Emerge As Big Winners in 2014 Farm Bill
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
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House Ag Committee Votes to Repeal USDA Catfish Inspection
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
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Obama's Budget Seeks to Slash Horsemeat and Catfish Inspection
Buried in President Obama’s nearly 1,500-page budget released this week are two very specific food safety-related requests. The administration wants to keep the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Food Safety and Inspection Service from inspecting horsemeat
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Bills Introduced to Cut USDA's Catfish Inspection
Bipartisan groups in the U.S. House and Senate introduced bills on Thursday that aim to eliminate the development of a catfish inspection program at the U.S. Department of Agriculture that they call redundant and wasteful.
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