The clause is part of an measure pending before the Senate Appropriations Committee, and the spending bill also includes a provision asking FDA to work more closely with states to fight seafood fraud.
Southern shrimpers have been pressing lawmakers to toughen inspections of foreign shrimp, which they say are of inferior quality and drive down the prices they can get for their wild-caught shrimp from the Atlantic coast and Gulf of Mexico.
"The committee is concerned about the contamination of farm-raised shrimp imports with banned antibiotics.
