After a Twitter exchange with saracen77 about chocolate mousse this morning, I got to thinking about how we think about food contamination generally versus the science involved. In general, we've internalized (or ignore!) a lot of the warnings without knowing why the warnings are really there. So cobbling together what I learned when I got my foodhandler' ( Read more... )

Same old problem, different food source. Jerky-style treats for dogs are now implicated in more pet poisonings.

The mind boggles.

(found via note_to_cat

Found via odogoddess: WalMart Continues to Sell Recalled Pet Food. It's one specific store in Montgomery, AL, that's mentioned in the article, but if you buy your pet food at WalMart, I'd strongly recommend checking to be sure there isn't a second label over the UPC making it look like something isn't on the recall list when, in fact, it is ( Read more... )

It's about time. While it may not be my rep, a rep from Connecticut has introduced a bill in the House to do the following:

• give the FDA the power to order mandatory food recalls;
• establish mandatory processing and ingredient standards;
• require more inspections of domestic and international food processing plants;
• create a warning system to identify ( Read more... )

Another article found via dogemperor: Filler in animal feed is open secret in China"As American food safety regulators head to China to investigate how a chemical made from coal found its way into pet food that killed dogs and cats in the United States, workers in this heavily polluted northern city openly admit that the substance is routinely added to ( Read more... )

I'll hit a couple of bullet points, but for the more detailed info, see this and this post by dogemperor and well as this news ticker which gives a better sense of the timeline as this has been discovered and updated ( Read more... )

It seems the assorted contaminated grains (and the list of affected grains and pet foods seems to be growing daily) may also have ended up in hog feed. So what about other livestock feed ( Read more... )

So, that pet food recall just keeps getting worse. Apparently any pet food -- wet or dry -- with wheat gluten in it may be potentially contaminated. (Link courtesy of droopsAnd now, according to the second link above, the FDA is looking to see whether any of this contaminated wheat gluten has made it into the human food supply. I'm having a hard time ( Read more... )