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Revival Animal Health’s Feline Recall Just Got Reclassified as Class I. Here’s Everything Else the Company Never Told You.
Revival Animal Health's feline milk replacer recall was just reclassified as Class I — the FDA's most serious hazard rating. This is the company's third recall in five months, with animals seriously injured and some killed — and all Revival is offering is a refund on the product. In that entire time, there isn't a single instance of the company…
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Raaw Energy’s Raw Dog Food Draws an FDA Warning — And the Company Calls Sick Dogs’ Symptoms “Detox”
FDA's newest warning letter details blood on the production floor and a resident strain of Listeria at Raaw Energy — but the company's own website is worse: a policy that makes customers agree their food may contain bacteria, and a page calling a sick dog's symptoms "detox."
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The FDA Has Had the Power to Force a Recall Since 2011. It’s Used It Once — And Never for Pet Food.
Darwin's Natural Pet Products sold contaminated raw pet food for nearly a decade while the FDA — which can force a recall — almost never does. Here's what that failure cost.
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Mid America Pet Food Recall Sickens Infants and Exposes a Dangerous Truth About Salmonella in Pet Food
You’ve probably heard by now about the massive Mid America Pet Food recall; if you haven’t, here’s what’s going on: Late Thursday evening, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) issued a dire warning to consumers about an outbreak of human illness caused by a Salmonella-contaminated dog food made by the…
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Raw Pet Food Maker Refuses to Issue Recall for Contaminated Cat and Dog Food, FDA Warns
A frantic pet parent contacted me recently, worried that the raw pet food they fed their cats made her cats violently ill. The pet food brand? Darwin’s Natural Pet Products. Based on Darwin’s long and sordid track record, I told the consumer to immediately report the matter to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA). Today, the FDA is issuing…
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“Supplier Error” Blamed in Poisoned Purina ProPlan Prescription Dog Food Recall
Nestle Purina Prescription Dog Food With Toxic Level of Vitamin D Poisons Dogs. Today Nestle Purina PetCare Purina expanded the recall of Purina Pro Plan Veterinary Diets EL Elemental (PPVD EL) prescription dry dog food due to a “supplier error” resulting in potentially elevated levels of vitamin D in two additional product lots, which precede the production dates of the…
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Raw Pet Food Maker Defies FDA and Refuses to Recall Contaminated Dog Food
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration is cautioning pet owners not to feed their dogs a batch Aunt Jeni’s Home Made frozen raw pet food after a sample collected from a store in the District of Columbia tested positive for Salmonella Infantis – a multidrug-resistant strain that will leave veterinarians with few options to treat pets with severe infections should…
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Gag-Worthy Conditions Found at Raw Pet Food Company; FDA Gives C & G Raw Two Weeks to Clean Up Their Act
Over the holidays, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) posted a 15-day Warning Letter to raw pet food maker G & C Raw, LLC following inspections the agency conducted on April 22-25 and May 17, 2019. What FDA investigators found were appalling conditions inside the raw dog food company, a list of violations so long I will only give…
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J.M. Smucker’s Special Kitty Cat Food Recalled Over Serious Health Concerns, Including Death
UPDATE: December 10, 2019. After calling the JM Smuckers inquiring about the unnamed ingredient(s), they told me, “we do not have that information at this time.” Asked if I had a cat that was dying, would JM Smuckers be willing to give the information to my vet and the company’s consumer representative said, “not at this time.” …
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Another Raw Pet Food Co Recall; Go Raw Brand Cat Food Found Contaminated with Salmonella
Another raw pet food was found to be contaminated with a pathogenic bacteria this week, this time from a company called Go Raw, LLC, of Cottonwood Utah. Go Raw is recalling some of its Quest Beef Cat Food after the company was notified by the Minnesota Department of Agriculture when a sample the state collected tested positive for Salmonella. However,…
