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Watch Regulators Decide the Future of Pet Food at the First Ever Virtual AAFCO Conference.
Starting tomorrow you can watch live as government regulators hash out the model laws in a first-ever virtual conference. Listen – live – what ingredients are being considered for use in animal feed and pet food, and the new model laws on how some pet foods – including human-grade – will be allowed to be marketed. Twice a year state…
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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 industry along with state feed officials and federal regulators from both the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and the Centers for Veterinary Medicine (CVM), I wonder: How did I…
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Official representative of U.S. pet food consumers needs your help.
Do you know who the United States consumer representative to the Association of American Feed Control Officials is? Me. I am your representative, and I need your help. Today. Why? In three short weeks, I need to attend the next Association of American Feed Control Officials conference in Savannah, Georgia on January 20th. But I can’t do it without your…
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Help Change the Future of Food for Animals
Have you ever been the victim of a misleading pet food ad or a deceptive marketing scheme? Perhaps there was a time when a very compelling ad convinced you to buy a pet food product, only to find out later that you had been misled by the marketing? If so, you’re not alone. Each year, American consumers spend billions of…
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Artist Creates Amazing Portraits of Animals to Help Poisoned Pets
I’ll bet you didn’t know I was an artist as well as an animal advocate. I thought you might like to see what I do when I’m not working on Poisoned Pets. Sometimes when the work here gets to be too stressful – imagine that! – I take a break from it all and sit down for a while at…
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Security Risk Prompts Me to Cancel Attendance at the Association of American Feed Control Officials Conference
I have some concerning news to report: A security risk prompted me to cancel my plans to attend the AAFCO conference next week. The reason for my decision was based on information I received which, unfortunately, led me to fear for my safety. This risk involves more than just myself but my colleagues as well. I do, however, plan to…
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How To Get A Copy of AAFCO’s Ingredient Definitions of Pet Food For Free (Or Almost Free)
Every year the when the Association of American Feed Control Officials (AAFCO) publishes its new Official Publication (OP), a handbook which contains the terms used in pet food, consumers wonder why it is so darned expensive. And why should they even have to pay for information they believe should be public? The reality is, the OP, like most books, are…
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Who Are The Voices That Protect Your Pets And The Food You Feed Them?
In a 29-billion-dollar pet food industry that serves 84 million U.S. households with pets, how many people do you think there is that work directly with State and Federal pet food regulators? How many people do you think are advisors to the Association of Feed Control Officials (AAFCO), the association responsible for crafting model laws and regulations that are adopted…
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How To Stop From Being Swindled By The Pet Food Industry
Have you ever been the victim of a misleading pet food ad or a deceptive marketing scheme? Perhaps there was a time when a very compelling ad convinced you to buy a pet food product, only to find out later that you had been misled by the marketing? If so, you’re not alone. How American Consumers Get Swindled By Misleading…
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Pet Food Safety Advocate Needs Your Help to Get to AAFCO
AMERICA’S TOP ANIMAL FOOD SAFETY EXPERT SEEKS DONATIONS FROM CONSUMERS TO ATTEND THE AAFCO CONFERENCE This winter, the number of pet food safety consumer advisors that plan to attend the upcoming Association of American Feed Control Officials (AAFCO) conference has dwindled from three advocates to only two. A grave illness has struck my colleague so I am taking over her…
