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Posts in Category ‘Pet Food News’
China Busted for Doping Chickens with Illegal Drugs
China is facing another food safety scandal after the Beijing-controlled China Central Television (CCTV) said that a commercial chicken producer had supplied KFC and McDonald’s with chicken that had been (…) Read more
Stench From Valley Proteins’ Rendering Plant Causes Writer to Wonder, “What We’re Feeding Dogs.”
People who live in Fayetteville, North Carolina, near the Valley Proteins rendering plant describe the misery of living with the suffocating stench that emanates from the plant. “There is stink, (…) Read more
New FDA Rule: Maximum Dose of Radiation Increased on Meat and Poultry
Last week the Food and Drug Administration surprised consumers with the announcement of the final rules allowing the increase of the maximum dose of ionizing radiation limits for irradiation of (…) Read more
FDA Failure to Act in China Leaves Pets at Risk of Dangerous Imports
While digging through the FDA investigations of the chicken jerky treat plants they visited in China this year, I uncovered a few interesting tidbits. Morsels, I know you will find (…) Read more
Cats and Dogs, Sentinels in a Silent Spring
This year marks the 50 year anniversary for Rachel Carson’s book Silent Spring. The eponymous book that warned of the dangers of pesticides, a book many say prompted the (…) Read more
FDA Grew Some Nuts & Suspended Sunland’s Dirty Nut Operation
Yesterday the U.S. Food and Drug Administration flexed its muscle and suspended food facility registration of Sunland Inc., utilizing brand new authority under the Food Safety & Modernization Act to (…) Read more
FDA Ineffective in Protecting You or Your Pets
In a special report today in the New York Times, it was revealed that the FDA’s failure in the New England Compounding Center meningitis outbreak was “ineffective” and “halting“. I (…) Read more
Big Pet Food Says No to Your Right to Know
Tomorrow when the polls open in California on November 6, The California Right to Know Genetically Engineered Food Act Prop 37 will be voted on. The country looks nervously on (…) Read more
Sandy wipes out Wellness, Holistic Select, Eagle Pack & Old Mother Hubbard websites
Hurricane Sandy wiped out at least four major pet food sites this week; all of them WellPet’s websites: Wellness, Holistic Select, Eagle Pack and Old Mother Hubbard, are down since (…) Read more