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Consumer activists & their impact on the pet food industry
A report, Consumer Activists and Their Impact on the Pet Food Industry, details pet food industry’s most dangerous market influencers: Pet food safety activists. In it, three activists are named: Susan Thixton of Truth About Pet Food, Dr. Jean Hofve of Little Big Cat and yours truly. The report will be the subject of a presentation at Petfood 2.0, an…
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Help send Mollie to AAFCO
It is that time of year again! The deadline to register for the 2014 Annual meeting with Association of Animal Feed Control Officials (AAFCO) is drawing near and there are but a matter of days to help send me to the meeting. The meeting will be held at the Hyatt Regency, in Sacramento, California on July 25-27, 2014. The cost…
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Consumer Watchdogs Attend Association of American Feed Control Official’s Conference
UPDATE: I have no association with Susan Thixton of Truth About Pet Food, either personally of professionally, or the Association for Truth in Pet Food. Who can forget the unfortunate misstep of a former president of the Association of American Feed Control Officials (AAFCO) admitting on video that euthanized pets are probably in pet food? It was with that…
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Poisoned Pets attend AAFCO conference; advocate for consumers & safe pet food
UPDATE: I have no association with Susan Thixton of Truth About Pet Food, either personally of professionally, or the Association for Truth in Pet Food. I’m heading out to my first Association of Feed Control Officials (AAFCO) conference today! I will be attending this mid-year conference with my dear friend, and colleague, Susan Thixton of Truth About Pet Food. As…
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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 rule that many hope will make sweeping changes to animal food regulation under the Food Safety Modernization Act. The meeting – the third and final such gathering around the country to…
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FDA asks our association to weigh in on the new proposed pet food safety rules
UPDATE: I have no association with Susan Thixton of Truth About Pet Food, either personally of professionally, or the Association for Truth in Pet Food. Yesterday Susan Thixton and I were honored to be asked by Dr. Daniel McChesney, director of the Office of Surveillance and Compliance at FDA’s Center for Veterinary Medicine, on behalf of the Association for Truth…
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Are drug allergies the real cause of illness in the jerky treat poisoning of dogs?
Since the media explosion surrounding the FDA progress report on pet jerky treats, I thought you all would be interested to listen to what Susan Thixton of Truth About Pet Food and I think about the problem with radio host and pet nutrition blogger Rodney Habib of In the Dish on the radio. The show, which was originally slated for…
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Little bites: Tasty morsels of the latest in pet food news
Little Bites (or Lil’ Bits – I haven’t decided) is my antidote to boring pet food safety news, the dry-as-dust pet food reviews, and well-worn pet food advice. Little bites is pet food news that is custom-decorated, hand-sifted, and specially flavored bites edited for busy bees who are sick and tired of wading through reams of sleep-inducing pet food industry…
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Finally, a place for petsumers: The Association for Truth in Pet Food
UPDATE: I have no association with Susan Thixton of Truth About Pet Food, either personally of professionally, or the Association for Truth in Pet Food. Today, pet food safety advocates, Susan Thixton and Mollie Morrissette, announced the creation of a consumer association devoted to the safety of commercial pet food. For the first time in U.S. history, consumers, and the…
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Pet food safety consumer group launched
UPDATE: I have no association with Susan Thixton of Truth About Pet Food, either personally of professionally, or the Association for Truth in Pet Food. Walking down the pet food aisle, one is confronted with a dizzying array of brands and labels, each marketing a meal that seems intended to satisfy the appetite of the owner rather than the pet.…
