• Issue relating to the Food and Drug Administration transferring the responsibility for issuing EU Export Certificates to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration

Duration: January 21, 2009 to June 30, 2009

General Issues: Trade (Domestic & Foreign), Food Industry (Safety, Labeling, etc.)

Spending: about $10,000 (But it's complicated. Here's why.)

It can be tricky to figure out how much an organization spent on a particular lobbying engagement. The law only requires lobbyists to report the amount they were paid for federal lobbying each quarter rounded to the nearest $10,000—and if it's less than $3,000 in a given quarter (or less than $13,000 for organizations with in-house lobbyists), they don't have to disclose it at all. Plus, some organizations include spending that doesn’t belong in the report—for instance, money spent lobbying state governments or other legal work.

Agencies lobbied since 2009: House of Representatives, U.S. Senate, Food & Drug Administration (FDA)

Affiliated organizations: Garbo Lobster Company, Inc.