American pets lose out to big business interests I thought the Current Good Manufacturing Practice and Hazard Analysis and Risk-Based Preventive Controls for Food for Animals proposed rule for animal (…) Read more
Posts in Category ‘Pet Food Regulations’
The shocking truth about the new animal food rule: PART III
Human food vs. animal food: Glaring differences The proposed rule for pet food and animal feed is similar to FDA’s Current Good Manufacturing Practice and Hazard Analysis and Risk-Based Preventive (…) Read more
Problems with proposed animal food law leave pets at risk: PART I
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
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