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With over 400 new reports of tainted treats, Senator Brown urges the FDA to speed it up…again
“If these products are dangerous we’re asking (the FDA) to ask these manufacturers for a voluntary recall,” that’s what U.S. Senator Sherrod Brown of Ohio demanded in a news conference yesterday, adding the agency has received about 400 additional complaints in the last few weeks.
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Senator Brown Speaks to the Senate, Urging Swift Action on Deadly Dog Treats
An unlikely advocate for pets has been found in politician and pug parent U.S. Sen Brown of Ohio who has become the latest unofficial champion for pet parents, pugs, poodles and pooches all across America. The sympathetic senator took to the Senate floor, a few days ago urging swift action on the part of the FDA to step up their…
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Congressional Leaders Demand FDA Action Over Poisonous Jerky Treats
United States Senator Sherrod Brown (D-OH) and United States Congressman Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) are fed up with the Feds and are demanding that the United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA) put an immediate stop to the continued sale of chicken jerky treats associated with the illness and death of hundreds of dogs across the nation. At a news conference…
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Pet Food Petition Struggles Under the Weight of the Creaky Ol' Broken-Down White House Petition Site
Update: Susan Thixton’s valiant petition to reform the pet food industry practices is croaking on the fatally flawed, incomprehensibly confounding WhiteHouse.gov “We The People” petition website. Sadly, many other worthy petitions are suffering a similar fate.Their prognosis a grim one, non-profit groups by the droves are abandoning the White House website for more favorable locations. In response to the hundreds…
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Pet Food Expert Petitions the Government to Stop the FDA from Violating Federal Law.
Animal nutrition advocate and pet food industry watchdog Susan Thixton is demanding the White House respond to her petition requesting the Government enforce the Federal Laws that are in place to protect consumers and animals from harm. To elaborate, the Federal Food, Drug and Cosmetic Act states that any food whether for human or animal must be safe and free…
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FDA Unveils New PETNet System to Track Pet Food Related Incidences: FAIL
FDA Moves at Glacial Speed to Assist Pets A plan, 4 years in the making, finally came to fruition with the FDA’s announcement of the creation of PETNet, Pet Event Tracking Network, a warning system designed to help State and Federal agencies communicate with each other. Yup, that’s right, they didn’t know how to communicate to each other before the…
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FDA arrested: Found asleep at the wheel – again!
Our trusted servants So, lets see, it’s been roughly three years since the Menu Food catastrophe and our trusted servants, the FDA still has not implemented the Pet Event Tracking Network (PETNet). Today in the Federal Register the FDA announced it is moving toward that goal at glacial speed and are asking for public comments. How many more pets need…
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Safe Animal Feed PSA Video from the FDA/CVM
In this informative, if somewhat bland, video produced by the FDA/CVM in September 2010, the host outlines the importance of feed safety and how it affects the health of animals and the safety of our food. I thought I would include it in my blog as it briefly mentions aflatoxins in poultry and cows milk as well as touching on…
