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And to the dismay of some, it likely won't include an amendment that would have eliminated a controversial program to keep a closer eye on a food product you probably weren't even worried about: catfish.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In an \u003ca href=\"http://www.politico.com/story/2013/06/the-fishy-deal-on-catfish-92415.html\">op-ed\u003c/a> published Friday in \u003cem>Politico\u003c/em>, Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., made the case for why $15 million a year to fund an \"absurd\" U.S. Department of Agriculture catfish office is a waste of taxpayer money. He and Jean Shaheen, D-N.H., sponsored the amendment in the Senate to kill the program. According to McCain and Shaheen, additional inspectors for domestic and imported catfish are nothing more than a gift to Southern catfish farmers seeking to burden their Asian competitors with extra compliance costs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Here's the backstory: U.S. catfish farmers have been struggling for a while. Total acreage of catfish ponds has dropped from a high of 196,760 acres of water in 2002 to 83,020 acres in January 2013. As Kristofer Husted \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/blogs/thesalt/2013/01/03/168203740/drought-puts-the-squeeze-on-already-struggling-fish-farms\">reported\u003c/a> for us in January, lack of water, high temperatures and feed prices are part of the problem.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But more threatening, as far as the people still in business are concerned, are the foreign companies who now dominate 78 percent of the U.S. market for frozen catfish and similar species. How did these companies, mostly from Vietnam and China, manage that? They've found ways to raise catfish more cheaply and efficiently.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, congressmen from Alabama, Arkansas and Mississippi, the top three catfish-producing states, have been looking for ways to bolster the domestic industry by limiting imports. And eventually, critics say, they figured more inspectors might do the trick.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Seafood inspection is the job of the Food and Drug Administration, and that's one reason both McCain and the Government Accountability Office are against having another agency duplicate the FDA's efforts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Unless catfish have suddenly sprouted legs, USDA should stick to meat, poultry and egg inspections,\" McCain wrote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nearly $20 million has already been spent on the USDA's \u003ca href=\"http://www.fsis.usda.gov/about/OCIP/index.asp\">Office of Catfish Inspection\u003c/a> since its creation in 2008. Its supporters say the FDA is woefully underfunded and ill-equipped to monitor imported seafood — especially when it comes to testing for residues of drugs used by foreign producers — and needs USDA's help.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Those supporters include, unsurprisingly, the \u003ca href=\"http://www.catfishfarmersofamerica.com/\">Catfish Farmers of America\u003c/a>, a trade group that has argued that foreign catfish are riskier for consumers than what we grow here. A \u003ca href=\"http://www.safecatfish.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/07/Catfish_Risk-_Report.pdf\">report\u003c/a> the group commissioned in 2010 found that salmonella, the pathogen most often associated with catfish, was found more frequently on imported catfish than on domestic catfish. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The FDA has indeed been regularly lambasted for not being able to keep up with testing of all imported seafood, not just catfish. The U.S. imports 90 percent of its seafood, but \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/blogs/health/2011/05/16/136364253/somethings-fishy-with-fdas-oversight-of-imported-seafood\">according to\u003c/a> the Government Accountability Office, in 2009, the FDA performed drug residue testing on only 0.1 percent of the seafood coming into the country. (In its tests, the FDA is \u003ca href=\"http://www.fda.gov/downloads/AnimalVeterinary/GuidanceComplianceEnforcement/ComplianceEnforcement/UCM113433.pdf\">looking\u003c/a> for residue showing both use of unapproved drugs and misuse of approved drugs.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Consumers Union is also in favor of USDA getting involved with catfish inspection. In \u003ca href=\"http://consumersunion.org/news/cu-comments-regarding-the-fsis-proposal-to-require-inspection-of-catfish/\">comments\u003c/a> prepared for Congress back in 2011, CU senior scientist Michael Hansen wrote, \"We believe that [USDA's Food Safety Inspection Service] is better suited than the FDA to ensure the safety of domestic and imported catfish, as FSIS does a more comprehensive review of food safety systems.\" In particular, Hansen wrote, his group was worried about foreign catfish producers' use of drugs unapproved for use in aquaculture in the U.S., which could affect consumers' health or contribute to antibiotic resistance.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And yet the GAO \u003ca href=\"http://www.gao.gov/assets/600/590777.pdf\">has agreed\u003c/a> with Shaheen and McCain that the USDA catfish program won't add much to what the FDA is already doing. 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Photo: Dan Charles/NPR\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Listen to the Story\u003c/strong> on \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/blogs/thesalt/2013/05/31/187327856/michigan-tracks-cattle-from-birth-to-plate\">Morning Edition\u003c/a> [audio src=\"http://pd.npr.org/anon.npr-mp3/npr/me/2013/05/20130531_me_17.mp3\"] \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Post by \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/people/143160021/daniel-charles\">Dan Charles\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/blogs/thesalt/2013/05/31/187327856/michigan-tracks-cattle-from-birth-to-plate\">The Salt at NPR Food\u003c/a> (05/31/13)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When you pick up a cut of beef at the store, would you like to know that animal's life history? The technology to do this does exist — at least in Michigan, where the state requires all cattle to carry electronic ear tags. It's the only state that requires such tags.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Michigan's cattle-tracking system was forced on farmers because of a crisis. Fifteen years ago, cattle in part of the state started catching tuberculosis from wild deer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Whenever a steer was discovered with the disease, health officials swooped in to find out what other farms the animal had passed through, what other cattle it had met along the way, because those animals might also be carrying the disease. It was a mad scramble through farmers' records.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Steve Halstead, Michigan's state veterinarian, says those papers sometimes were a mess.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Farmers are busy,\" Halstead says. \"They move animals every day. They know what they're doing, but they don't always write it down.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The confusion cost Michigan farmers real money. Until they could prove that their cattle hadn't been exposed to TB, they were banned from out-of-state markets.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So three years ago, the state of Michigan ordered cattle farmers to put special electronic tags on their animals.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Today, whenever a steer or cow leaves a farm in Michigan, or goes to a slaughterhouse, it passes by a tag reader, and its ID number goes to a central computer that keeps track of every animal's location.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If an animal is discovered to be sick, \"we can track that animal all the way back, through every herd that it's been in, through any sale yard it's been through, back to the farm of origin,\" Halstead says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Michigan adopted this system despite some opposition from farmers in 2007.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Around the same time, the U.S. Department of Agriculture proposed a national system just like this. The USDA said it would help control not just tuberculosis but also more frightening diseases, like foot-and-mouth or mad cow disease.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But ranchers like Debbie Davis in south-central Texas fought it off, calling it expensive and unnecessary.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We felt like it was an invasion of privacy,\" she says. \"It was a way for the government to monitor the number of animals we owned, watch our business practices, monitor our movements, and being independent Texans, we weren't interested in that.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The USDA dropped the requirement for electronic ID tags nationwide.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now, though, some farmers are thinking those ID tags might have a good side. Maybe an animal that has been tracked its whole life will be worth more when it's sold.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_62767\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 250px\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2013/05/img_5611-53bb86ec29c6b401c4ccce9734ce2be6db8ee035-s3.jpg\" alt=\"Daniel Buskirk, a professor of animal science at Michigan State University, is experimenting with the university's own cattle. Photo: Dan Charles/NPR\" width=\"250\" class=\"size-full wp-image-62767\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Daniel Buskirk, a professor of animal science at Michigan State University, is experimenting with the university's own cattle. Photo: Dan Charles/NPR\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\"There's a large number of people that would like to know where their food comes from, just understand that better,\" says Daniel Buskirk, an expert on the beef industry at Michigan State University.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He's using the university's own herd of cattle to experiment with ways to track those animals and then make information about them available to shoppers in the store.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"This is one way that we can hopefully kind of connect the story of how this food is being produced with the consumers who are consuming it,\" Buskirk says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last year, when 72 of the university's steers went to the slaughterhouse, Buskirk set up a system that transferred the identity of each animal from its electronic ID tag to a new set of tags — little square bar codes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Those bar codes were pinned to the carcass. 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"content": "\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_62749\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2013/05/ap0806120725141_wide-ba95d8.jpg\" alt=\"Genetically modified wheat has been discovered growing in a field in Oregon. GMO wheat is not approved for sale in the U.S. Above, a wheat field in Arkansas. Photo: Danny Johnston/AP\" width=\"640\" height=\"359\" class=\"size-full wp-image-62749\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Genetically modified wheat has been discovered growing in a field in Oregon. GMO wheat is not approved for sale in the U.S. Above, a wheat field in Arkansas. Photo: Danny Johnston/AP\u003cbr>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Listen to the Story\u003c/strong> on \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/blogs/thesalt/2013/05/30/187103955/gmo-wheat-found-in-oregon-field-howd-it-get-there\">Morning Edition\u003c/a> [audio src=\"http://pd.npr.org/anon.npr-mp3/npr/me/2013/05/20130530_me_16.mp3\"] \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Post by \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/people/143160021/daniel-charles\">Dan Charles\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/blogs/thesalt/2013/05/30/187103955/gmo-wheat-found-in-oregon-field-howd-it-get-there\">The Salt at NPR Food\u003c/a> (05/30/13)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A farmer in Oregon has found some genetically engineered wheat growing on his land. It's an unwelcome surprise, because this type of wheat has never been approved for commercial planting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The U.S. Department of Agriculture says it's \u003ca href=\"http://www.aphis.usda.gov/newsroom/2013/05/ge_wheat_detection.shtml\">investigating\u003c/a>, trying to find out how this wheat got there. The USDA says there's no risk to public health, but wheat \u003ca href=\"http://www.wheatworld.org/aphisinvestigation/\">exporters\u003c/a> are worried about how their customers in Asia and Europe will react.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In fact, worry about export markets is the main reason why genetically engineered wheat isn't on the market in the first place.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The biotech company Monsanto did create varieties of wheat that tolerate the weedkiller glyphosate, or Roundup — just as it created \"Roundup Ready\" corn, soybeans, cotton and canola. It also carried out field trials of this wheat in 16 different states.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the country's wheat growers told the company that they did not want it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We are not in favor of commercializing any biotech trait unless it's gone through regulatory approvals in the U.S. and in other countries,\" says Steve Mercer, vice president of communications for \u003ca href=\"http://www.uswheat.org/uswPublic2009.nsf/index?OpenPage\">U.S. Wheat Associates\u003c/a>. Many countries, including some that import wheat from the U.S., are quite hostile to genetically engineered crops.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Monsanto dropped the wheat project. It never asked for government approval, and it ended its field trials of wheat in 2005.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fast forward eight years. 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She passed samples on to the U.S. Department of Agriculture, which confirmed her results.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bernadette Juarez, an official with the USDA's Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service, said in a \u003ca href=\"http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WSrcq912DOI\">statement\u003c/a> that her agency is collecting more samples from the farm, conducting more tests. \"We have a team of dedicated investigators working on the ground daily to figure out what's going on here,\" she says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nobody knows how this wheat got to this farm. \u003ca href=\"http://www.monsanto.com/newsviews/Pages/monsanto-statement-on-usda-gm-wheat.aspx\">Monsanto's last field trials\u003c/a> in Oregon were in 2001. After all such trials, the genetically engineered crops are supposed to be completely removed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Also, nobody knows how widely this genetically engineered wheat has spread, and whether it's been in fields of wheat that were harvested for food.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to the USDA, even if it has, there's no danger to public health. \u003cbr>Still, if further tests show that this unapproved wheat has spread into the food supply, it could play havoc with wheat sales.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2006, traces of genetically engineered rice — also unapproved — were discovered in large parts of the American rice harvest. That discovery shut down America's rice exports to some countries. Exporters lost millions of dollars. The wheat harvest is much bigger.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Steve Mercer, from U.S. Wheat Associates, says there's no indication that this will happen to wheat. 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Photo: Chris Hondros/Getty Images\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Post by Eliza Barclay, \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/blogs/thesalt/2013/05/28/186899565/pot-brownies-should-be-childproofed-doctors-say\">The Salt at NPR Food\u003c/a> (05/29/13)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As some states become friendly to medical marijuana, many users are opting to eat their pot instead of smoking it. And that means marijuana dispensaries are doing heavy business in brownies, cookies, sodas, candy and other treats heavily dosed with THC.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But unlike drugs that come in bottles, these tasty marijuana foods haven't been childproofed. And in Colorado, doctors say that kids who apparently get into their parents and grandparents' stashes are getting sick.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Colorado legalized marijuana for medicinal purposes in 2000. When the Obama administration said in 2009 that state laws \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=113924395\">wouldn't be challenged\u003c/a> by federal law enforcement authorities, the state's medical pot industry exploded.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_62740\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 250px\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2013/05/ap111215134813-65a34fb5cfc093ff6fb46854015a57c1a365d628-s3.jpg\" alt=\"Marijuana gingerbread cookies, like this one sold at The Apothecarium in San Francisco, could easily appeal to kids. Photo: Jeff Chiu/AP\" width=\"250\" class=\"size-full wp-image-62740\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Marijuana gingerbread cookies, like this one sold at The Apothecarium in San Francisco, could easily appeal to kids. 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In 2010, Denver psychiatrist Christian Thurstone \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=123570215\">argued\u003c/a> on \u003cem>Talk of the Nation\u003c/em> that the state's relaxed laws have made the drug too accessible to many adolescents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://www.ucdenver.edu/academics/colleges/PublicHealth/departments/EnvironmentalOccupationalHealth/about/Faculty/Pages/KosnettM.aspx\">Michael Kosnett\u003c/a>, a medical toxicologist and associate clinical professor at the University of Colorado School of Medicine, notes that marijuana has grown much more potent over the years. Some of the candy bars and cookies sold in Colorado dispensaries contain over 100 milligrams of THC, which he says is well above the level known to cause adverse effects. \"There's a more serious risk to a child because they're smaller in size,\" he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The solution, he says, is not to ban the products but to require child-resistant packaging for marijuana edibles.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"What was concerning to us was that here were dispensaries selling products very clearly labeled as drugs, but yet these stores were not packaging them like other medications,\" says Kosnett. \"We know from experiencing that use of child-resistant packaging has been highly effective at preventing poisoning of children.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kosnett and Wang have been talking with policymakers about this issue, and just this week, Colorado's governor signed into law a bill to require the child-resistant packaging for medical marijuana products. 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