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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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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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Will the FDA uphold the sanitary transportation of pet food?
That depends. Don’t hold your breath though, because like most of the new proposed Food Safety Modernization Act rules relating to pet food and animal feed, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is holding pet food to a lesser standard than human food. But you probably want to know why such a rule is important and why the FDA has…
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Poisoned Pets speaks at the FDA meeting; advocates safe pet food
UPDATE: Just in case you missed my mini-speech/presentation to the Food and Drug Administration’s Center for Veterinary Medicine when I spoke at the FSMA Public Meeting (below) on the Proposed Rule to Establish Current Good Manufacturing Practice and Hazard Analysis and Risk-Based Preventive Controls for Food for Animals in Sacramento, CA on December 6, 2013 (which I hope you didn’t!),…
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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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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…
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The shocking truth about the new animal food rule: PART III
Human food vs. animal food: Glaring differences The proposed rule for pet food and animal feed is similar to FDA’s Current Good Manufacturing Practice and Hazard Analysis and Risk-Based Preventive Controls for Human Food, however, there are some major differences in the way the two rules address relevant hazards. Although FDA attempted to use the new human food Current Good…
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Half-baked new FDA animal food law leaves pets at risk: PART II
One messed up animal food law The much-anticipated, but highly disappointing, proposed rule Current Good Manufacturing Practice and Hazard Analysis and Risk-Based Preventive Controls for Food for Animals meant to require livestock feed and pet food manufacturers to adopt food safety practices similar to those in the proposed rule for human food, falls miserably of protecting pets. The similarity quickly…
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Problems with proposed animal food law leave pets at risk: PART I
Days following the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) update on the status of the jerky treat investigation; the Agency released their long-awaited proposed rule for pet food and animal feed: The Current Good Manufacturing Practice and Hazard Analysis and Risk-Based Preventive Controls for Food for Animals. While mainstream media has been busy tripping over themselves extolling the virtues of the…
