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CEO of Slade Gorton slams U.S. leadership’s lack of action on catfish inspection bill

Kim Gorton, president and CEO of Boston, Massachusetts, U.S.A.-based seafood supplier and distributor Slade Gorton, has written an editorial in Forbes magazine blasting the leadership of the United States House of Representatives’ for the way they have handled proposed regulations governing inspections of imported catfish.

Since May, House leaders have tabled a resolution passed by the U.S. Senatein May that would eliminate a law that currently divides catfish inspection duties between the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA). Gorton wrote in Forbes that the current inspection situation is “wasteful and duplicative.”…

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