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Posts Tagged ‘regulations’

Mimi poisoned by gabapentin xylitol

Dog Dies After Being Treated With Gabapentin, Exposing Flaws In the Divide Between Human and Animal Drugs

When Ronda Archangelo’s dog Mimi died after being treated with a gabapentin solution that contained xylitol, she wondered how such a tragic mistake could have happened. When she asked her (…) Read more

  • March 12, 2020
  • Filed under: Pet Safety
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How Contaminated Pig Ears Will Change the Way We Think About Pet Food Forever

Staring at an empty bulk bin that once held dried pig ears, it struck me that this is probably a common sight in every pet food store in America. Shelves (…) Read more

  • August 21, 2019
  • Comments 11
  • Filed under: Pet Treats
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How a Penniless Consumer Advocate Took on a Billion Dollar Empire

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

  • June 21, 2019
  • Comments 9
  • Filed under: Consumer Advocacy

Do you know what a “Feed Grade” pet food is? The answer will shock you

It all began with a question from AAFCO: What does “Feed Grade” mean? It is going to be a topic of discussion at the upcoming 2015 AAFCO Meeting in Denver (…) Read more

  • July 28, 2015
  • Comments 8
  • Filed under: Pet Food Regulations

FDA says AAFCO falls short, ingredients are neither approved or recognized as safe

Association of American Feed Control Officials (AAFCO) is facing an uncertain future with the U.S. Food and Drug Administration. FDA’s general advisors have told the Agency that AAFCO’s process for (…) Read more

  • February 22, 2014
  • Comments 9
  • Filed under: Politics of Pet Food

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

  • February 17, 2014
  • Comment 1
  • Filed under: Politics of Pet Food
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Poisoned Pets speaks at the FDA meeting; advocates safe pet food

UPDATE: Just in case you missed my mini-speech/presentation to the Food and Drug Administration’s Center for Veterinary Medicine when I spoke at the FSMA Public Meeting (below) on the Proposed (…) Read more

  • January 24, 2014
  • Comments 0
  • Filed under: Politics of Pet Food
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The madness of recalls, FDA style

NOTE: This gem of an article was unearthed from my dusty old Drafts file. Although the recalled products news is ancient history (January 2013), the rest of the article is (…) Read more

  • January 19, 2014
  • Comments 4
  • Filed under: Politics of Pet Food
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Government glitches stall consumers from commenting on proposed pet food rule

It’s impossibly frustrating to find that, after you’ve mustered up the courage to submit a comment on the proposed rule for animal food (that will eventually decide the fate of (…) Read more

  • November 15, 2013
  • Comments 6
  • Filed under: Pet Food Regulations
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The proposed foreign supplier verification program hasn’t a hope in hell of helping pets

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

  • November 14, 2013
  • Comments 2
  • Filed under: Pet Food Regulations
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