When I walk into the Association of American Feed Control Officials (AAFCO) conference hall, packed wall to wall with the world’s biggest names in the pet food and animal feed (…) Read more
Posts Tagged ‘Food and Drug Administration (FDA)’
FDA Warns Darwin’s: Clean Up Your Act or Face The Regulatory Music
A damning FDA warning letter sent to Darwin’s Natural Pet Food this week tells the raw pet food company clean up its act or face the regulatory music. The company (…) Read more
Inspection of Darwin’s Reveals Revolting Conditions, Complaints of Ill and Dying Pets
A new report on Darwin’s raw pet food company uncovers a virtual “laundry list” of violations and repeated complaints of sick and dying pets. An inspection report provided to Food (…) Read more
The FDA answers pet parents top questions about pet food and animal drugs
Confused about cat food, perplexed by your pet’s puke, freaked out about pet foodborne illness, need the dope on animal drugs? Thankfully, our friends at the Food and Drug Administration’s (…) Read more
Will the FDA uphold the sanitary transportation of pet food?
That depends. Don’t hold your breath though, because like most of the new proposed Food Safety Modernization Act rules relating to pet food and animal feed, the Food and Drug (…) Read more
Poisoned Pets speaks at FDA meeting on proposed animal food rule
Last Friday I was honored to have the opportunity of speaking at a public meeting held by the federal Food and Drug Administration (FDA) in Sacramento regarding the recently proposed (…) Read more
White House Guts Food Safety Modernization Act, Testing Nixed
News of cuts in the U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s draft food safety rules the Food Safety Modernization Act (FSMA) stunned food safety advocates when it was revealed this week (…) 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
It’s About Time: FDA Finally Posts Milo’s Kitchen Dog Treat Recall
Nearly a week after the initial announcement that Del Monte was recalling their problematic Milo’s Kitchen brand dog treats was made, the FDA finally got around to posting it on (…) Read more
FDA Unveils New PETNet System to Track Pet Food Related Incidences: FAIL
FDA Moves at Glacial Speed to Assist Pets A plan, 4 years in the making, finally came to fruition with the FDA’s announcement of the creation of PETNet, Pet Event (…) Read more
