{"id":160,"date":"2007-03-20T10:29:00","date_gmt":"2007-03-20T17:29:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.graywolfproductions.com\/lynnsrants\/more-re-pet-food-and-lack-of-fda-inspectors"},"modified":"2007-03-20T10:29:00","modified_gmt":"2007-03-20T17:29:00","slug":"more-re-pet-food-and-lack-of-fda-inspectors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.graywolfproductions.com\/lynnsrants\/more-re-pet-food-and-lack-of-fda-inspectors","title":{"rendered":"More re pet food and lack of FDA inspectors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Another  f..ing unbelieveable!<\/p>\n<p>They knew about the bad pet food on <span style=\"font-weight:bold;\">February 20th<\/span>! <\/p>\n<p>From the CBC website: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/canada\/calgary\/story\/2007\/03\/20\/pet-food-070320.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">full story HERE<\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-style:italic;\">The investigation is focusing on wheat gluten used at two U.S. plants as the likely source of contamination.<\/p>\n<p>The FDA first learned of a potential problem after receiving complaints on Feb. 20 and followed up by feeding the &#8220;cuts and gravy&#8221; product to 40 to 50 cats. Of those, seven animals died, said Stephen Sundlof, the FDA&#8217;s top veterinarian. He added the contamination appeared more deadly to cats than to dogs.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>I love my pets and my food is not on the list &#8211; and I don&#8217;t feed pouches and\/or wet food to them.   <\/p>\n<p>Turns out the the bad stuff most likely comes from two US plants &#8211; not the Canadian manufacturer..interesting? <\/p>\n<p>We live in a country where people food is bad and pet food is bade&#8230;any connection to an administration that has curtailed inspections of food? Hmmmmm<\/p>\n<p>More that needs investigating &#8211; but we know that democrats can multitask and do more than who-knows-how-many investigations at the same time. <\/p>\n<p>From the AP <span style=\"font-weight:bold;\">FEBRUARY 27<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-style:italic;\">FDA food-safety inspections steadily decreasing<\/p>\n<p>By Andrew Bridges and Seth Borenstein<\/p>\n<p>The Associated Press<\/p>\n<p>WASHINGTON \u2014 The federal agency that has been front and center in warning the public about tainted spinach and contaminated peanut butter is conducting just half the food-safety inspections it did three years ago.<\/p>\n<p>The cuts by the Food and Drug Administration come despite a barrage of high-profile food recalls.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We have a food-safety crisis on the horizon,&#8221; said Michael Doyle, director of the Center for Food Safety at the University of Georgia.<\/p>\n<p>Between 2003 and 2006, FDA food-safety inspections dropped 47 percent, according to a database analysis of federal records by The Associated Press.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Full article <a href=\"http:\/\/seattletimes.nwsource.com\/html\/health\/2003590963_food27.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">HERE<\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight:bold;\">Guess we should start asking who knew about all this bad food and when did they know it? <\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Another f..ing unbelieveable! They knew about the bad pet food on February 20th! From the CBC website: full story HERE The investigation is focusing on wheat gluten used at two U.S. plants as the likely source of contamination. The FDA first learned of a potential problem after receiving complaints on Feb. 20 and followed up&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"_kad_post_classname":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[199,200],"class_list":["post-160","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-fda-food-safety-inspectors","tag-lack-of-oversight"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.graywolfproductions.com\/lynnsrants\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.graywolfproductions.com\/lynnsrants\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.graywolfproductions.com\/lynnsrants\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.graywolfproductions.com\/lynnsrants\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.graywolfproductions.com\/lynnsrants\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=160"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.graywolfproductions.com\/lynnsrants\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.graywolfproductions.com\/lynnsrants\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=160"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.graywolfproductions.com\/lynnsrants\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=160"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.graywolfproductions.com\/lynnsrants\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=160"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}