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FDA Warns Darwin’s: Clean Up Your Act or Face The Regulatory Music
A damning FDA warning letter sent to Darwin’s Natural Pet Food this week tells the raw pet food company clean up its act or face the regulatory music. The company is being given fifteen days to shape up or ship out after the agency has repeatedly warned the company about significant pet food safety fails. This news follows on the…
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Raw Pet Food: The Problem That Just Won’t Go Away
With back to back raw meat pet food recalls these days, pet parents are beginning to worry: Just how safe is raw pet food anyway? No other subject than raw pet food is more divisive and more misunderstood. Pro-raw pet fooders rabidly defend their position, convinced that the government and Big Pet Food are conspiring to ruin raw meat pet…
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Inspection of Darwin’s Reveals Revolting Conditions, Complaints of Ill and Dying Pets
A new report on Darwin’s raw pet food company uncovers a virtual “laundry list” of violations and repeated complaints of sick and dying pets. An inspection report provided to Food Safety News reveals a multitude of food safety violations and hundreds of complaints. Despite hundreds of accounts of sick and dying pets, Gary Tashjian, the owner of Darwin’s Natural Pet…
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Sharp Bones, Plastic Bags and Metal Found in Darwin’s Dog Food; Complaints Date Back Months
Darwin’s Dog Food has some serious problems with their pet food: Consumers report finding large pieces of shattered bone, plastic bags and metal in their food. This week, an anxious consumer contacted me, alerting me to the problems – problems she documented – dating back eight months. Concerned for the welfare for pets, and frustrated by Darwin’s lack of action,…
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Tips from a nervous cook: How to make pathogen-free pet jerky treats
I admit it; I’m not in love with being in the kitchen, mainly because that place makes me nervous. I can’t help thinking about all the places in there where germs are lurking, waiting to contaminate something – mainly my food. Being a food safety nut has only magnified my fear of that place, but when I have to handle…
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Steve’s Real Food Recalls Turducken Dog Food for Salmonella Contamination
First off, who names a pet food that has the word turd in it? Boy, if I had been at that brainstorming meeting, I would have thought someone has had one too many breakfast beers. I mean, turd is bad enough, but does it have to rhyme with f*ckin’ too? Two words I definitely would not want associated with a…
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Warning! Nature’s Variety Cat Food Recalled for Choking Hazard
It’s Friday pet food fans, and you all know what that means, right? For those in the pet-food-safety-know, Friday’s are industries favorite day for dropping recalls. True to form, Nature’s Variety dropped a Friday drop n’ run recall today: They’re recalling their raw frozen cat food because “pieces of clear plastic may be found in some bags and could cause…
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Treats Found Contaminated with Pathogenic Bacteria, Study Found
Popular dog treats called bully or pizzle sticks may contain more than just dried penis meat – they could be contaminated with dangerous pathogens, according to a new study published this month by researchers at the Cummings School of Veterinary Medicine at Tufts University and the University of Guelph. The study, published in the January 2013 issue of the Canadian…
