The
U.S. Senate this week voted in favor of an amendment to significantly
increase funding for the U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s
inspections of imported seafood and foreign seafood facilities.
By
a vote of 81 to 11, the Senate adopted an amendment directing the FDA
to spend an additional $3.1 million in fiscal year 2019 on the
agency’s inspections of imported seafood at the border and of
foreign seafood facilities overseas.
The
additional $3.1 million in funds would increase the FDA’s spending
on these activities to $15 million dollars, an increase of about 26
percent.
The
increase in funding was badly needed – in 2015 the FDA examined
just over 2 percent of the over one million seafood entry lines that
year.
The
increased funding is good news for commercial fishermen who have to
compete with foreign fishermen many of which are unfairly subsidized
by their governments, face virtually no environmental regulations and
pump their product full of antibiotics.
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