For 7th year, GAO calls on Congress to repeal wasteful USDA catfish inspection program
SEAFOODNEWS.COM [SCOM] Dec 22, 2014
In its annual year end report on government waste and duplication, the GAO - the auditing arm of Congress- again targeted the USDA catfish inspection program as a leading example of unnecessary government waste and duplication.
It was the first example cited in the reports' discussion of duplication in the food safety inspection system:
[An] Example of Fragmentation in Federal Food Safety Oversight [is] Catfish Inspection.
FDA has traditionally overseen the safety of all seafood, including catfish, but as a result of 2008 Farm Bill ..
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