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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 (FDA) Center for Veterinary Medicine (CVM) have been hard at work creating a fab new webpage for frazzled pet parents. It’s important that you get your answers straight from the…
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How to Report a Problem with Pet Food: The Simplest – and the Best – Guide You’ll Ever Find. Seriously.
I have written many guides on how to report problems with a pet food, but this guide is a stripped-down version of my earlier guides; making it easier to understand what can sometimes feel like a daunting and frightening task. But there is no reason to fear the process, if you just follow these simple steps. You can submit a…
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Pet Food Safety for Hysterics: What to do in a Crisis
A panic-stricken pet parent gripping a can of cat food, eyes glazed with fear and teetering dangerously on the verge of complete hysteria asks a friend, “But, but what do I do now!?!” Which is a perfectly normal reaction when a person realizes their fur-baby just ate a recalled pet food. “It’s contaminated with what!?!” screams the friend, not realizing…
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The best guide you’ll ever find: How to find out what’s really in your pet’s food
Do you ever wonder, “What’s really in my pet’s food?” Do the ads look better than the ingredient list? Confused by gobbledegook ingredient definitions? Wonder what percentage of meat is actually in the formula vs. all the other crap? And just what kind of meat is it? Could it be the charred remains of Fluffy or Fido? Do you ever…
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How Not to Get Shafted by a Pet Food Company
Millions of pets each year get sick from food poisoning and most of those illnesses go unreported and the ones that are, seldom have a satisfactory outcome. There are laws that are in place to protect consumers and by extension your pet, from foodborne illness. But, as many pet parents know, corporations violate those laws and produce unsafe pet food…
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Tips for Frantic Pet Parents: All You Need to Know on How to Report a Pet Food Problem
Imagine your dog has just been diagnosed with what your veterinarian suspects may be food poisoning – what is the first thing you do? Why, panic, of course. Being in a state of sheer panic is never a good thing. Especially when you’re trying to deal with a complex problem or attempting to navigate the vast ocean of information on…
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The Most Complete Guide to Making a Pet Food Complaint to the FDA. Ever.
Reporting a problem with pet food is vital: It can – and often does – mean the difference between life and death. The easiest and the best way to do this is through the Food & Drug Administration (FDA) Safety Reporting Portal, or you can call your state’s FDA Consumer Complaint Coordinator (phone numbers listed below). I recommend that you…
