Days following the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) update on the status of the jerky treat investigation; the Agency released their long-awaited proposed rule for pet food and animal feed: (…) Read more
Posts in Category ‘Pet Food Regulations’
FDA Announces Final Rule on Administrative Detention of Food
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) today announced a final rule amending the criteria for administrative detention to prevent potentially unsafe food from reaching the marketplace. Evidence vs. Belief (…) Read more
Why the FDA posts some recalls and ignores others; more recall madness explained
NOTE: This priceless article was recently discovered found aimlessly wandering in my WordPress Drafts folder, just waiting to be published. Pay no attention to the dates of the recalls, but (…) Read more
New FDA Rule: Maximum Dose of Radiation Increased on Meat and Poultry
Last week the Food and Drug Administration surprised consumers with the announcement of the final rules allowing the increase of the maximum dose of ionizing radiation limits for irradiation of (…) Read more
FDA Ineffective in Protecting You or Your Pets
In a special report today in the New York Times, it was revealed that the FDA’s failure in the New England Compounding Center meningitis outbreak was “ineffective” and “halting“. I (…) Read more
Diamond, you really suck at recalls
Incredibly, Diamond screwed up again. Don’t ask me how they do it. I really don’t know. Last Friday, late in the afternoon, Diamond, pulled another one of their tacky Friday-drop (…) Read more
FDA Releases Diamond Pet Foods Preliminary Inspection Report
Thank you Phyllis!
Diamond pet food plant up and running, despite sickening report
The Diamond plant responsible for the largest pet food recall since 2007 is back in business today. The FDA gave it the thumbs up after Diamond gave it a good (…) Read more
Walmart, Target say no to removing toxic jerky pet treats
A request urging Walmart and Target to remove chicken jerky pet treats imported from China from the market “out of an abundance of caution” was met with a big fat (…) Read more
“Made in the USA”: It don’t mean diddly squat
Made in the good ol’ US of A don’t mean diddly now-a-days. Long gone are the days of Mom and Pop operations and local ingredients; we live in a global (…) Read more