After Six Years of Inaction, Consumer Organizations Urge Feds to Implement Catfish Inspection Program

Washington, D.C.—(ENEWSPF)—October 7, 2014. Today, a coalition of consumer and advocacy organizations including Food & Water Watch, the Center for Foodborne Illness Research & Prevention, Consumer Federation of America, National Consumers League and United Food & Commercial Workers International Union called on the Office of Management and Budget to create an inspection programfor domestic and imported catfish. The 2008 Farm Bill mandated the creation of such a program, to be administered by USDA’s Food…