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Lack of inspection prompts recall of 154,500 pounds of imported catfish

By News Desk on May 29, 2019

California firm Richwell Group Inc., doing business as Maxfield Seafood and importer of record, is recalling more than 154,500 pounds of Siluriformes, also known as catfish, that was not presented for import re-inspection into the

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Lack of inspection prompts recall of yellow walking fish, aka catfish

By News Desk on May 15, 2019

A California company today recalled more than 36,000 pounds of yellow walking fish imported from Vietnam because it wasn’t inspected as required by federal law.

Crab House Trading Corp. of Los Angeles, CA, distributed the…
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Texas company recalls more than 100,000 pounds of wild caught catfish

By News Desk on February 23, 2019

A Houston company initiated a recall of more than 100,000 pounds of catfish because they were not inspected, according to the USDA’s Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS).

Fulton Seafood Inc. “produced” the wild caught…
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Three countries with 30 foreign catfish producers want access to U.S. market

By Dan Flynn on September 21, 2018

The federal government is taking comments for 30 days about whether China, Vietnam and Thailand should be listed in the Code of Federal Regulations (CFR) as eligible to export Siluriformes fish to the United States.
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Thailand’s catfish inspections found to be equivalent to U.S.

By Dan Flynn on September 19, 2018

The U.S. Department of Agriculture has found Thailand’s food safety inspection system for fish of the order Siluriformes (catfish) to be equivalent to that of the United States. Thailand joins China and Vietnam in achieving…
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Codex transfer was not held up for lack of talk about it

By Dan Flynn on October 30, 2017

In most months, industry and consumer representatives, each get one meeting with USDA’s top brass at the Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS).

But in September, acting FSIS Administrator Paul Kiecker and temporary Deputy Under…
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Congress hails FSIS for blocking 272 tons of bad foreign catfish

By Dan Flynn on July 5, 2017

The July 3 publication of the Federal Register made it official. Importers and brokers of catfish were put on notice about USDA’s Food Safety and inspection Service’s plans to reinspect all shipments of imported Siluriformes…
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Mississippi farm recalls 1,695 pounds of catfish for residue concerns

By News Desk on March 25, 2017

CatfishSwimmingMainMississippi’s Lakes Farm Raised Catfish Inc., located in Dundee, has recalled approximately 1,695 pounds of catfish (siluriformes  products)  that may be adulterated with residues of public health concern, specifically Malachite Green and Leucomalachite Green, the…

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USDA says activists off the mark with catfish complaints

By News Desk on October 12, 2016

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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Congressional battle continues over federal catfish regulation

By Dan Flynn on September 16, 2016

House Speaker Paul Ryan, R-WI, may want to wait until after the Nov. 8 election, when the House of Representatives returns for the lame-duck session, to decide whether there will be a vote on the…
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