(The following letter was sent to IntraFish by Tom Mazzetta, CEO of US-based Mazzetta Company.)
Last week US Senator John Kennedy (LA) announced that through an appropriations measure he had secured an additional $3.1 million (€2.7 million) in fiscal year 2019, an increase of 26 percent to FDA’s inspection of imported seafood.
During his floor remarks on the measure he characterized imported seafood as being “unfairly subsidized by their governments, facing virtually no environmental regulations, pumped full of illegal drugs, and very dangerous.”
