Phyllis Entis, food safety expert, Food Safety News reporter, food safety microbiologist, aka Food Bug Lady, and pet parent, has written one of the few (great) books ever on the (…) Read more
Posts in Category ‘Consumer Resources’
Are Pet Food Reviews Legit? Think Again. Most Are Just Ads in Disguise
I was shopping the other day at the health food store, looking for the holy grail: un-scented certified organic shampoo, when my eyes popped out of my head. There, on (…) Read more
Watch Regulators Decide the Future of Pet Food at the First Ever Virtual AAFCO Conference.
Starting tomorrow you can watch live as government regulators hash out the model laws in a first-ever virtual conference. Listen – live – what ingredients are being considered for use (…) Read more
How a Penniless Consumer Advocate Took on a Billion Dollar Empire
When I walk into the Association of American Feed Control Officials (AAFCO) conference hall, packed wall to wall with the world’s biggest names in the pet food and animal feed (…) Read more
How a Vitamin and a Mistake Led to the Downfall of Hill’s
No one knew how deadly a vitamin could be before the recall of Hill’s Science Diet and Prescription Diet dog food was until dogs started getting sick. And some dogs (…) Read more
Pet Parents Sue After Hill’s Offers $5 Per Dog For Compensation: Dead or Alive
Frantic pet parents, whose dogs became ill or died after being fed the recalled Hill’s Pet Nutrition reached out to Hill’s for help. Instead of an apology or an admission (…) Read more
Official representative of U.S. pet food consumers needs your help.
Do you know who the United States consumer representative to the Association of American Feed Control Officials is? Me. I am your representative, and I need your help. Today. Why? (…) Read more
Help Change the Future of Food for Animals
Have you ever been the victim of a misleading pet food ad or a deceptive marketing scheme? Perhaps there was a time when a very compelling ad convinced you to (…) Read more
Heads, Feathers, and Feet Substituted For Fancy Pet Food Ingredients; Suppliers Plead Guilty to Food Fraud
Feed ingredient giant Wilbur-Ellis and commodities broker Collin McAtee of Diversified Ingredients pleaded guilty to mislabeling pet food ingredients for years, substituting crummy old feather meal, and by-products that included (…) Read more
Artist Creates Amazing Portraits of Animals to Help Poisoned Pets
I’ll bet you didn’t know I was an artist as well as an animal advocate. I thought you might like to see what I do when I’m not working on (…) Read more