I suspect it’s all being done under cover now & we’ve seen the last of the official public recalls, unless it’s something really big that can’t be covered up. They found a way around us.
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I think this is exactly what is happening. If you have visited either FDA or USDA site lately. Very little traffic on their public notification areas. They have simply pulled the plug on public information. FDA Recall last entry 6/19/07. USDA site had one new announcement today but the recent activity has been non-controversial topics. I do think any recalls have been in-house and are not being publicized. Maybe the FDA doesn’t know about them. Why should they. Don’t ask, Don’t tell seems to work for the Army maybe it will work for the FDA?

This wouldn’t be the first time we were “sold down the river” by a trusted member of government now would it?

I suspect it’s all being done under cover now & we’ve seen the last of the official public recalls, unless it’s something really big that can’t be covered up. They found a way around us.

a few week ago a was at the local major supermarket that has nothing but the major brands. it wasn’t a busy day-all the shelves seemed full and all the pet foods shelves were carefully ‘ faced’ off and well stocked but the space they allot to those plastic wrapped 4 packs of canned 9 lives-a large amount of shelf-age all mid level , the prime supermarket space, in fact, more and better space than they give to canned friskies- was almost completely empty. and they were not on sale. i go to this place every week and pay attention to the pet foods in particular now whether i buy or not.

at the time i thought it was pretty weird-i wondered if there”d been a recall i was unaware of( impossible due to itchmo!)-it was that noticeable in a fully packed pet food isle. now with your post-i wonder. i am so thankful i dropped all the grain foods and switched my girls out. it makes me furious they’re allowed to do this-FDA are you listening!!! people WANT you to inspect,close and fine plants that produce harmful food. hopefully someone will sue you as an accessory to the crimes-an enabler with a profound far reaching conflict of interest that needs to be eradicated not spun.

A friend was at one of our small local petshops & overheard two young college student workers talking in the back, complaining about having to take a bunch of food off the shelf, pack it up & send it back to the mfr. He’s not all that concerned about the recall so didn’t pay exact attention to words (I would have had my head stuck through the door)–I asked if they said ‘recall’ & he said no, but from what they did say, it sounded like that’s why they were doing it. I asked what was the timeline, & he said it sounded like they had just packed it up a few days ago & were still getting it ready to ship.

So maybe the silent recall IS going on right now right under our noses. That store carries the ‘good’ brands we’ve all been advocating here, plus a few that have had recalls & one of the brands that tested positive for acetaminaphen.

I guess there is no way we can get knowledge of these hidden activities if that’s what they actually are, they’ve found a way around public knowledge.

The radio interview with FDA’s Dr. Sundlof is on tonight… Let’s see how he answers some questions… Itchmo willl be on too.. Don’t forget to tune in for live listening!!!

Katie

is it even possible to have a bigger hole in food saftey particularly with articles from china? prehaps if they focused on food and drug safety which is, by the way, their mandate instead of thinly disguised shilling for free trade with countries with horrendous human rights violations on top of abysmal food saftey standards we’d get somewhere.

the FDA and the USDA barely have the teeth now to inspect and regulate american manufacturers. that’s the problem, and they allow tire irons, fatal drugs and plastic-god knows what- in animal feed. aren’t those the glaring problems? those knees must be smarting from all the time this fool has kneeling in front of big business calming their fears he might try to suggest mandating recalls of death causing food stuffs. shameless whore.