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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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“Made in the USA”: It don’t mean diddly squat
Made in the good ol’ US of A don’t mean diddly now-a-days. Long gone are the days of Mom and Pop operations and local ingredients; we live in a global economy now, man. Today, a product that says it was “Made in the USA” could be and probably is made with a multitude of ingredients from anywhere in the world.…
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Consumers desperate for answers clutch at straws to stop jerky treats from poisoning more dogs
Reports continue to emerge daily in the news of dogs that have become ill or died after consuming tainted jerky treats that remain on store shelves despite an avalanche of recent media coverage. Reports of problems began as far back as 2007 when the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) issues its first warning about the treats and since that…
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Tip of the Iceberg Report: Fraudulent Certified Organic Products from China
The Titanic ignored the warning, and look what happened to them For the second time this year the USDA is warning organic distributors of fake certified organic products coming from China. Earlier this year on February 11, the Department of Agriculture (USDA) publicly released evidence of fraud by a Chinese organic agricultural marketer. The agency’s National Organic Program (NOP) made…
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This Week in Crazy: Anti-Freeze Flavored Vinegar Kills 11 People in China
The latest out of China is that 11 people died after consuming vinegar that was contaminated with anti-freeze. Can you beat that? Apparently, some dip-shit, I’m sorry, I mean mentally-challenged restauranteur decided it would be just fine to store their vinegar in two anti-freeze barrels. What numb-scull, sorry, lame-brain looked at two empty barrels of anti-freeze and said, “Why, by…
