Proposal will lower food safety - CFA

Catfish Farmers of American President Butch Wilson of Alabama says U.S. Senators John McCain, R-Ariz., and Tom Coburn, R-Okla., are wrong to propose stopping the transfer of seafood inspection from the Food and Drug Administration to the U.S. Department of Agriculture.

Catfish Farmers of American President Butch Wilson of Alabama says U.S. Senators John McCain, R-Ariz., and Tom Coburn, R-Okla., are wrong to propose stopping the transfer of seafood inspection from the Food and Drug Administration to the U.S. Department of Agriculture. Wilson says the USDA has more inspection powers and the FDA only inspects 2 percent of the seafood coming into the United States. Artis Ford of Mississippi State University reports in this Farmweek video.

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