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The Pet Food Institute’s Dangerous Plan to Dismantle Pet Food Regulations
The Pet Food Institute (PFI) doesn’t like how pet food is regulated. And they have a plan on how to fix it. “There’s only one answer, and it’s one federalized system,” says Dana Brooks, the President and CEO of the Pet Food Institute, a trade group whose members account for the vast majority of the dog and cat food made in…
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Death Drug Found in One of the U.S.’s Largest Pet Food Ingredient Makers; Euthanized Animals to Blame
Valley Proteins, based in Winchester Virginia, one of the largest privately-owned rendering businesses in the United States – a company that processes slaughterhouse waste, rancid restaurant grease, and the occasional horse into animal feed and pet food – was sent a deeply disturbing Warning Letter published last week by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA). In the letter –…
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FDA Pulls the Plug on Policy Guides Which Allowed 4D Meat in Pet Food, But Admits it Might Still Get a Pass
The FDA made the historic announcement yesterday that they are withdrawing three of their most loathsome Compliance Policy Guides (CPGs), including the ones that allowed pet food manufacturers to use diseased animal tissue in pet food and animal feed with impunity for decades. The agency is pulling the plug on the three policies which allowed for 4D (dead, dying, diseased…
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20-Year History of Euthanasia Drug in Pet Food; Pentobarbital Still Found in Dog Food Today
While the horror of the Smucker’s debacle unfolds and the number of dog foods contaminated with sodium pentobarbital – a drug typically used to euthanize pets – grows, 20 years ago the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) found the very same drug in many of the same brands still on the market today. TWENTY YEARS AGO THE SAME THING…
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FDA on the Intentional Adulteration of Pet Food: Meh.
Today, FDA released its final rule to implement the intentional adulteration provisions of the FDA Food Safety Modernization Act (FSMA). But, wait. Don’t get too excited. You remember the largest pet food recall in U.S. history? When 60 million cans and pouches of deadly pet food had to be recalled after thousands of pets were killed by adulterated pet food…
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FDA Talks to Pet Food Industry About Food Safety ‘N Stuff (SPOOF)
Poor Michael R. Taylor. Alternatively known as the Food and Drug Administration's "food safety czar" or the guy voted by Americans they would most like to see thrown out of a job, he’s got to have one of the most nerve-wracking jobs of all time. Can you imagine going to work every day knowing you are responsible for food safety…
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Condemned, Inedible Meat & Poultry: It’s What’s in Pet Food
I know what you’re thinking: Not another alarmist pet food report. Stop with those stories already. Can’t you just tell me what’s a good pet food to buy, Mollie? Oh, how I wish I could stop shouting from my soapbox, “Your pet food is poisoned! Your pet food is poisoned!” But, I can’t. Not a day goes by that I…
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What is a “Feed Grade” Pet Food? How Does it Differ From a “Human Grade” pet food? The Answer Will Shock You
What does “feed grade” mean? It’s not something most people think about when buying pet food. But probably the most important thing to know when choosing pet food is the difference between human-grade and feed-grade. Did you know that more than 95% of pet food is feed-grade? When you finish reading this article, you’ll know what it is and why…
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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 pet food and animal feed safety); the Regulations.gov website crapped-out. In fact, it crashed – several times – last week. It’s back up again, so now is a good time…
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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 food was bad, but another new proposal, meant to protect consumers from U.S. importers who bring potentially dangerous and untested foreign pet food ingredients and products into America, will do…
