Second, catfish farmers worked through their congressional representatives to increase inspections of fish from Vietnam. Given the food scare, emotions helped gain support. The Food and Drug Administration(FDA) has long been in charge of the safety of overseas food, but has had little budget to check the safety. Less than 2 percent of U.S. imported seafood shipments get inspected, as opposed to about 20 percent in the European Union. The congressional debates did generate a suggestion to upgrade inspection of all types of imported fish, but it was not well received. So the congressional representatives supporting the catfish industry took a different approach by burying a provision deep in the $300 billion farm bill of 2008, which called for the Department of Agriculture-rather than the FDA-to be in charge of catfish safety. Supporters' rationale was that aquaculture is a form of agriculture. Basically, the provision requires 100 percent inspection at the production source, which is particularly difficult in Vietnam because its highly fragmented production would require an army of inspectors that would raise Vietnamese costs.