Catfish and carp being processed by Wisconsin’s Blum’s Spring Lake Fisheries is adulterated and misbranded, according to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA).
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Whether they are truly motivated by their concern for food safety, or whether they just want to erect a trade barrier, U.S. catfish farmers are methodical in keeping pressure
When the domestic catfish industry talks about its competition from the “Mekong Delta” being unfair and maybe illegal, it sometimes sounds a little paranoid, Now, however, U.S. catfish producers
A new report from Exponent Inc.’s Center for Chemical Regulation and Food Safety is adding new fuel to the debate over catfish import safety. According to the report, eating
In another act of the ongoing catfish regulatory drama, the advocacy group Food and Water Watch sent a letter yesterday to Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack and Secretary of Health Kathleen
Food Safety News reported that there is no timetable for moving the nomination of Elisabeth Hagen to the Senate floor. Hagen, currently the chief medical officer at the U.S.
Senate Agriculture Committee Chairwoman Blanche Lincoln (D-AR) is again pressing the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) to begin regulating catfish, an issue of great importance to catfish farmers in
Noxubee County in Mississippi’s Black Prairie is pretty much the center of America’s $400 million domestic catfish industry. Noxubee County Producers Inc. located in Macon, MS is a
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has advised a Kentucky seafood processing facility to break the vacuum seals on its Tilapia packages before thawing the fish to eliminate
More than 90 percent of the catfish imported to the United States originates in Vietnam, a country that has become the largest competitor to U.S. Delta region catfish farmers.
America’s domestic catfish industry usually is not happy with the U.S. Food & Drug Administration (FDA) over the regulation of foreign fish imports, but it will probably like
A Stop Sale order on imported catfish and basa product from Indonesia, Thailand, Cambodia, China and Vietnam has been re-imposed by the State of Alabama.
Commissioner Ron Sparks of the