Recall Update: Monday-Tuesday
Tuesday
Due to a technical problem, we were down most of Monday. So here’s what you missed.
We are going through the reports of reimbursements and post highlights tomorrow.
Also from Monday: How important is salvage pet food to hog farmers?
Monday
It’s been more than 3 months since the first of the melamine recalls were announced. We’re still collecting your experiences with filing for reimbursements from pet food companies. Please send us your stories.
Looking Back:
Here’s are some posts from the first days of the recall:
- The first analysis of the recall impact.
- Menu Foods’ first press release since recall angers Itchmo.
- We discover Iams’ exclusive contract with Menu Foods.
Related News: Deja vu all over again - FDA investigated toothpaste risk 10 years ago. Highlights after the jump.
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Highlights from the New York Times via International Herald Tribune:
After a drug ingredient from China killed dozens of Haitian children a decade ago, a senior American health official sent a cable to her investigators: find out who made the poisonous ingredient and why a state-owned company in China exported it as safe, pharmaceutical-grade glycerin.
The Chinese were of little help. Requests to find the manufacturer were ignored. Business records were withheld or destroyed.
The Americans had reason for alarm. “The U.S. imports a lot of Chinese glycerin and it is used in ingested products such as toothpaste,” Mary Pendergast, then deputy commissioner for the Food and Drug Administration, wrote on Oct. 27, 1997. Learning how diethylene glycol, a syrupy poison used in some antifreeze, ended up in Haitian fever medicine might “prevent this tragedy from happening again,” she wrote.
The FDA’s mission ultimately failed. By the time an FDA agent visited the suspected manufacturer, the plant was shut down and Chinese companies said they bore no responsibility for the mass poisoning.
Sound familiar?
In a global economy, ingredients for drugs are often bought and sold many times in different countries, sometimes without proper paperwork, all of which increases the risk of fraud, the authorities say.
The Panama poison passed through five hands, the Haitian poison six. In both cases, the factory’s original certificate of analysis, attesting to the contents of the shipment and its provenance, did not accompany the product as it moved around the world.
(Thanks carmamil)
June 18th, 2007 at 7:34 am
If anyone feels like emailing one more Senator, I think this one might be a good one to email with your concerns.
http://harkin.senate.gov/issues/issues.cfm?t=11
June 18th, 2007 at 7:58 am
Before leaving for work, I caught the beginning of GMA this morning. They were reporting on the counterfiet toothpaste and how alot of counterfeit products are coming in from China. They mentioned China as being a baddie a number of times. It was a good piece, but still no mention of the pet food problems. At least someone is starting to report on the risks of human comsumtion….it’s a start anyway.
June 18th, 2007 at 8:12 am
I have two huge regrets—of course the first is feeding what I was for the last 10 years to my 2 cats-Special Kitty ( it was all that they would eat) and the second is not finding this website until the end of April. In the early days of my cats’ illness in Feb and March I felt very alone–like there were no others in my situation around me when the news broke—my news station covered my 2 cats illness but I heard nothing more of sick animals except one pup that passed in early Dec (in RI). I alone tried to get through to MF (why I called my NBC station), the FDA and anyone else who would listen as I thought this was bigger than reported. If I had found about Itchmo I know I would have been more effective as reading the early posts and knowing we’re in a HUGE mess (not as originally reported) would have made me as mad then as I am now. The initial weeks I had some sense of relief as to find out why my 2 cats had become so sickened so quickly, but as time has passed and I see the inefficiency of the FDA to recall items and the doubts I have that the true “poisons” have ALL been found, I know we have not come one step closer to stop this from happening again.
June 18th, 2007 at 8:22 am
I’d have more respect for a politician if they used the words “pet deaths due to toxins” rather than “pet food recall”. The families of those people killed by “outbreaks” of contamination deserve the same recognition in relation to their loss.
The best intentions don’t mean much if you’re afraid to talk about it.
Sorry, but, you know. Apathy starts with dilution in more ways than one.
June 18th, 2007 at 9:09 am
Just a heads up, ITCHMO folks. If you find a great site with info related to the mass poisoning of our pets, particularly one from a POISON MANUFACTURER, i.e., Menu Foods, Proctor & Gamble, etc., remember to save it to your hard drive first, BEFORE you post the link. Print out a hard copy of the web page, as well.
Just as Orwell wrote in 1984, these posts are going down the memory hole, and the Mass Poisoners are deconstructing their websites, trying to rewrite history, and erase the truth from the internet. Even relying on the cache function of Google is not the best option.
I’m not a Web tekkie, but will anyone who is post on how to maintain copies of this information away from the control of the original site?
June 18th, 2007 at 8:55 pm
Glad to see Itchmo is up & running again……hey Ben, did the men in black come to visit you & take down your website? I was having trouble late yesterday & haven’t been able to get on at all today. Hooray……you’re back. We missed you!
June 18th, 2007 at 9:32 pm
I’m very glad You’re back. What happened?
ITCHMO ADMIN: We’re glad that we are back too! There was a server error that kept our site down most of the day.
June 18th, 2007 at 9:45 pm
Welcome back itchmo. I was thinking some very large asian country had hired some hackers to disappear the website. Or alternately maybe the feds had taken them away for a little offshore Cuban vacation.
June 18th, 2007 at 9:45 pm
Folks, Duane-o woke up and redid his front page:
http://www.petfoodinstitute.org/
And not one word about the “Texas expert” by NAME or “TEXAS” reference to what they were thumping about here:
http://www.consumeraffairs.com.....all58.html
“Through our contacts in Texas, which is where the lab is located that conducted the analysis, we have learned there is genuine concern among key toxicological and analytical experts about the lab and the actual test results,†said PFI spokesman Kurt Gallagher.
““They never name the experts they’re working with,†she said on Wednesday. “When someone says ‘people I know say this,’ it sounds to me like they’re trying to say there are experts who have looked into this and don’t agree with the findings. But I don’t believe there are.
““This case is not closed,†Donna Coneley, lab manager with ExperTox, Inc. told us. “They’re (FDA) still requesting samples and data from us. We’ve talked to them three times today. I don’t see by any means that this is over. If it was over and done with, why would they bother spending so much time with us on the phone and arranging for samples to be released?â€
Looks like this man doesn’t want his name used re: disputing the ExperTox findings–if there’s a PFI Press Release with it on, let’s see it:
http://www.petfoodreport.com/commission.htm
Pet Food Institute Establishes
National Pet Food Commission
“Dr. E. Murl Bailey, Jr., D.V.M., Ph.D, Texas A&M Universityâ€
An interview he gave KTRK-TV, Houston, ABC-13 on March 27, 2007, prior to joining the PFI Commission:
http://abclocal.go.com/ktrk/st.....id=5156966
“A toxicology expert at Texas A&M School of Veterinary Medicine isn’t convinced researchers have come up with the last of the pet food poison puzzle. There’ve been other cases of pet food contamination in recent years, including a fungus found in dry dog food some three years ago. That was quickly identified. This, though, is taking longer because in several ways, it may be an imported problem.
“â€There’s no magic bullet that’s going to save the animal,†said Dr. Murl Bailey, veterinary toxicologist with Texas A&M. “No antidote, no antidote we know of.â€
“That is the one thing of which Dr. Bailey is sure. So much else about the tainted pet food recall is conjecture. At this point, the poison believed to be aminopterin, he says, is not an absolute.
“â€It hasn’t been proved and even the veterinarians at Cornell, where they first identified this, are not completely sure,†said Dr. Bailey.
“â€I think we’re looking at the tip of the iceberg, in terms of number cases,†said Dr. Bailey.
“At the very least, it should make animal owners question what they’re feeding to their pets and if labels accurately reflect ingredients and where they’re from. More than that, Dr. Bailey says…
“I think there should be a level of concern on the part of regulators,†he said. “Human and animals.†â€
Dr. Bailey let KTRK use his name and gave them the interview–funny he didn’t do that for an organization he is on a commission of.
According to ExperTox, they are STILL working with FDA on the matter–Duane-o certainly doesn’t want to use a URL to a story which says he has imaginary experts, so he chooses NOT to report that segment of the news re: acetaminophen.
Must be tough being Rutgers’ ‘54. No wonder you can get messages from Elvis wearing a PFI hat. :-)
http://www.rutgers54.org/honorroll.htm
June 18th, 2007 at 9:50 pm
“The FDA changed food safety regulations and created this new category of product, inedible eggs,†ADF Board Chairman Thomas Slaight says. “Bill saw an opportunity to gather this product and market it into an industry that needed highly digestible protein.â€
http://www.sbj.net/weekly_arti.....aID2=77777
June 18th, 2007 at 10:06 pm
LOL Pukanuba I wonder and Emailed Ben about the same thing! Thought maybe they’d been hacked by those PFMIB
{pet food men in black :-þ } Whom I’m sure would like Itchmo to crash and burn.
New improvments around here musta been the reasons :-D
I’ve saved alot in print need to get them more organized, maybe get a new printer/scanner and put them on disc or something?
Debbie, I’m going to look and see if that GMA story is on the website. Thanks for mentioning it. Didn’t see GMA today.
It’s sort of Sad, that ‘a little tube of {human} toothpaste’ gets such coverage {over the Pet food poisoning, or not in addition to it}, but I’ve seen it mentioned several times over the weekend and they also include the Bad foods etc. coming in from China. So it’s a good shot for all of it to be OUT there.
June 18th, 2007 at 10:21 pm
You know, we worry. Is there any way to set up a cyber- something akin to Emergency numbers some of us keep on our fridge? Perhaps redirection to another site where you can communicate circumstances, or an information page, when bad stuff happens?
It’s good to know you’re okay. :)
June 18th, 2007 at 10:47 pm
I hope whom ever’s Samples those are at Expertox, that THEY, not Anyone else, has Say/rights over them {owns them}; and speaks to an attorney BEFORE letting Anyone else handle them, besides Expertox.
I say FDA needs to go out and pick up LOTS of Bags and Cans {sealed} and Test THOSE. BUY them. Do Not get them from he Pet Food manufacturers themselves. Buy them just like US. And test the heck out of them.
No one *needs* the FDA to test THEIR foods anymore. {can’t trust them to do it right or honestly}
Have they called ANY of US?
And I’d hold on to my Own specimens if they test positive or with a Legal order at the Lab I’d sent them to, to not be moved.
Keep FDA Waaaaay away from those samples!
Someone said it right last week, FDA couldn’t find acetaminphen, in a Tylenol bottle!
And has Anyone with the acetaminophen positive test Called the FBI? {or the like}.
I’d think a *Drug* found illegally in ANY Food is a *Crime* that needs to be looked into!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I mean forget the FDA, where are “the cops” in this?
{not like we’d need “permission” on that!}
Maybe IF it had been found Before being bought or fed, the FDA could have had some say in that, but I’d think,but after the fact {privately bought and or fed}, is a whole nuther matter.
I’m just wonderin’ ya know. That’s all.
{oh yeah and I Luv those mysterious Texas folks, who advise the PFI! I got ta meet THEM! LMBO! }
June 18th, 2007 at 10:51 pm
Thanks, Steve. That’s another subject I’ve been wondering about.
Menusux- Visions of swirling water down the tubes. You do have a way with words.
HomeGrown, thanks for the link.
YaYa, like ya said, at least they’re covering contamination. Everybody uses toothpaste. Well… rethinking that one. Newspapers and on line news sources should add a daily FDA and USDA refusal blip. THAT would make for interesting reading.
June 18th, 2007 at 10:53 pm
xyz, I could get into Forums but didn’t begin to know where to post a Question about Itchmo being down. If it was my ISP if Itchmo got rubbed out :-D
{I didn’t think about Petconnection, I don’t go there often}
June 19th, 2007 at 1:15 am
chinese made toys recalled for lead paint.
http://www.sptimes.com/2007/06....._Tho.shtml
around here you can’t rent to someone with children if your property isn’t confirmed deleaded and here’s old thomas the tank engine and his layer of fresh lead paint.
we all know children of a certain age put every damn thing in their mouths…
chinese will probably ban raisins that look funny again because of course someone’s lying about the lead paint being their doing…
June 19th, 2007 at 4:33 am
YaYa,
I’ve come to regard Itchmo and a few others as an extended family.
Sometimes we know how to contact someone, sometimes we don’t. With a few thousand relatives it’s not always easy to get the word out when something goes wrong or a crisis happens. It can be like hunting for a buddy that likes to go fishing. You know he’s near water but you’re surrounded by lakes.
Anyway, maybe something for all of us to consider if we don’t have contingency plans when stuff happens. :)
June 19th, 2007 at 6:21 am
Just Watched A News Report. That Every Dangerous Toy Recalled This Year Was Imported From Guess Where. But Of Course China. They Really Like Using Lead In Childrens Toys There. It Happens Constantly Even With All Our Restrictions On Lead And Children We Keep Importing These Toys Loaded With It. Just Goes To Show Global Trade Is More Important Then The Lives Of Any Man, Woman, Child, Or Pet Living In The U.S. It Is Also More Important Then Our Own Enviroment. We Recycle And Alot Live Green But Why Bother When We Import The Toxins And Garbage From China Anyway. If We Still Bought Made To Last Instead Of Cheap Our Landfills Wouldnt Be Such A Problem.
June 19th, 2007 at 7:09 am
Menusux-
That was a most EXCELLENT post calling out the PFI once again! And once again I sent another email to them–and will call again a little later.
These folk are just WRONG. They must be nervous, though, to have posted that shallow little message on their site.
If anyone else care to contact PFI again today here’s the info again:
info@petfoodinstitute.org
PHONE (202) 367-1120
June 19th, 2007 at 7:39 am
try this for your emails too
kurt At petfoodinstitute.org
duane At petfoodinstitute.org
June 19th, 2007 at 7:43 am
Rick, Menusux,
I don’t believe that PFI message. Lab X finds poison, but keep feeding that food until Lab Y and Z confirm the results. Sorry Duane and pals, that isn’t how it works. I assume unsafe until independent labs prove it’s safe. Thanks Rick I’ll call those SOBs later.
June 19th, 2007 at 7:48 am
OT : Interesting implications. Fois Gras and *possible* disease link.
http://physorg.com/news101406844.html
June 19th, 2007 at 8:06 am
Roberto P-
The fact that PFI came out with a statement so quickly-defending the pet food companies-without even testing the same samples first speaks volumes. It shows that they are beholden to their master, and that “promoting the overall care and well-being of pets” is NOT their first priority. How could it be when 98% of their funding comes from pet food companies. No one has a reason to trust what PFI says. And they can come up with all the new “commissions” they want-it won’t do any good. We have their number now–so to speak. It’ll be another group putting out propaganda to defend those that sign their paycheck.
June 19th, 2007 at 8:26 am
I like the “click here” ….. salvaged and distressed pet food on the PFI site menusux posted. SALVAGED & DISTRESSED?!
June 19th, 2007 at 8:51 am
Wasn’t it the PFI that MF sent to the Senate hearing in their place??? Do they think we’re all stupid?
We are not of the generation like my mother’s was–”don’t make waves”—we do demand answers and are entitled to know them. Gone are the days when you”can’t fight city hall” we certainly will when they’re wrong, incompetent or lying….After all, it is people like us that the pet food companies made billions of dollars off of—sounds like they cared about us then—-we have every right to know exactly what the testing shows whether they want us to or not. Why didn’t they have the same outcry when aminopterin was discovered by the NY lab??? (I still think that test was probably correct IMO)
June 19th, 2007 at 9:23 am
Anyone like the Video of What Goes Into the Pet Food? They really don’t show anything that goes into it. Just that its SAFE (Uh -huh). And they uplay the dangers of home-cooking and Organic Pet Foods (hinting indirectly that the natural/holistic/organic market is not supplying the right nutrients to the foods - UH-HUH again). Also, those Vet Diets get a REAL BIG PLUG.
Just ask your Vet, He will tell you what to feed your pet.
June 19th, 2007 at 9:41 am
Great website, but it doesn’t seem to be working like it used to.
I’m getting some weirdness when trying to access the comments. The comments take a while to appear, and after they’re up, the auction ads seems to be slowing things down, or seems to refresh intermittently.
Is anyone else have problems?
June 19th, 2007 at 9:45 am
Got this off DumbDuane’s Perpetual Fony (sorry, but phony didn’t fit) Information homepage:
“Washington, May 29, 2007 – Seventy-three percent of consumers say they are “confident or very confident†in the safety of their pet food according to three rounds of public opinion surveys conducted by the Pet Food Institute. PFI, which represents the makers of 98 percent of the pet food sold in the United States, today announced the results of three public opinion surveys conducted since April 4. Results also show that nearly an identical percentage say they are staying with their preferred brand of pet food. [read full story…]”
To which I say: WTF? Please come to Itchmo & let’s redo that survey & then please republish those results. I know you won’t do that because that would be truthful information & we don’t want that kind of stuff to go out to the public, now do we? You guys need to take your thumbs out of your patooties & get some truthful info out to the public FOR A CHANGE!!!!!!!
Oh, & Duane: please tell all your buddies that those cutesy ads on TV showing fresh meat & veggies in all that junk pet food is a friggin joke to those of us in the know. Why not put all that money to better use & put better quality ingredients in your cronys’ pet food instead. What? You never thought of that? Figures.
June 19th, 2007 at 9:48 am
My comments took a minute or so to appear…..there may still be a few technical problems that I’m sure they are working on. It’s kinda slow moving around on this site right now but I have a feeling they’re probably aware of it.
June 19th, 2007 at 10:03 am
Maybe PFI interviewed the 73% of consumers who’ve already switched to one of the natural foods from a privately held company.
No more mega-global corporation junk food for my kitties.
June 19th, 2007 at 10:03 am
the whole problem for anything ” regulated”( surely meant as a euphemism for ‘do absolutely nothing and get the corporate glad hand when you leave public service’)by the FDA is that they DO NOT TEST ANYTHING by and large.
people seem to have, and i am not sure it’s not an image entirely fostered by the fda themselves, at least they rarely talk about it, this mistaken notion that the fda has legions of scientists who test everything, especially drugs that they ‘ regulate’. this has never been so. they do not have the will nor the resources nor the has it EVER been part of their protocols to do so. Congress ,who oks the small amount of public funding of the fda, is fond of passing numerous regulation and enforcement updates to the various food and drug acts that it later refuses to fund. in effect, the congress men get all the glory for allegedly giving the fda more teeth so the public assumes they’re doing something then they quietly turn around and without much public scruntiny refuse to fund their various soap boxy pieces of feel good legislation.
the department of agriculture DOES go out and test meat and meat plants etc. on the otherhand, because it is funded and set up to do so. the fda was spun off of the USDA in the 1930s.and spin apparently it continues to do protecting private profits for large drug and agriscience concerns.
the congress is as much to blame for the hideous track record of the fda and it’s lack of regulatory bite as the president who elects drug and agriscience employees to positions of power at these federal departments and the congress who get oodles of political contributions and swag from said companies and are not honest in funding the bills their mouths are writing.
so companies themselves do all the testing and provide reems of paperwork that the government trusts are true and accurate. and thus thalidomide (a sleeping drug which caused woman in europe to give birth to limbless children)almost made it to the american market. these companies are regulating themselves and they whine and scream constantly about how much power the fda has over them- which is a joke. the fda has little power over these companies save in what goes on the label( if you can belive that-but its true).the fda doesn’t go out and test because it never has and probably never will save when something with a high enough death toll occurs and then youd be surprised or not at how drug companies in particular are good at keeping dangerous drugs on the market.
June 19th, 2007 at 10:06 am
Pukanuba,
What an appropriate name! Thanks for the info.
June 19th, 2007 at 10:11 am
i went to the supermarket this week and every single major label brand-pretty much all they carry- was on sale.
a woman was shocked i had bought 20 jars of meat baby food- and i told them they were for my cats.i also bought an all fish cat food and she asked if i trusted it. i told her -sort of- but that i no longer bought any cat food with grain in it because that seemed the source of the problem.
she said she didn’t now that and seemed glad for the information. i assume she’s like many people- who know there is a problem, know you can’t trust big business but feel helpless and do not know what to do to fed their pets. for some people there’s no itchmo maybe no computer so they rely on media and our government. that our government and the media would leave these people, all of us, in fear and guessing is disgusting.
June 19th, 2007 at 10:24 am
http://V.Mercola.com/blogs/pub.....19048.aspx
http://V.Mercola.com/blogs/pub.....12516.aspx
June 19th, 2007 at 10:29 am
well, crap. That didn’t come out either. I give up.
June 19th, 2007 at 10:31 am
How about Duane-o’s Smith-Buckin boss?
http://www.smithbucklin.com/ab.....givray.cfm
“Henry S. Givray returned to SmithBucklin in 2002 as Chief Executive Officer, bringing more than 30 years of management, client service, operations and business development expertise, including 13 years of experience with the company from 1983 to 1996.”
This link is an e-mail page for him:
http://www.smithbucklin.com/ab.....ivray=true
Or:
http://www.smithbucklin.com/contact/
+1.800.539.9740
infoATsmithbucklin.com
PFI was also using the services of a crisis management company called Levick. Specifically, they were dealing with Gene Grabowski there–here’s how to reach him for questions about PFI:
http://www.levick.com/resources/team/grabowski.php
202.973.1351
ggrabowskiATlevick.com
Levick provides “get me into/out of the news” services:
http://www.levick.com/expertise/in/
Maybe one of them can explain why Duane-o’s in conference with Elvis ;-) and why there’s been no Press Release on the net to reflect the PFI “top story”.
June 19th, 2007 at 11:51 am
menusux at 9:45 pm
Duane O’ has ZERO credibility amongst Americas pet owners and parents.
I wonder if this guy ever considered “retirement”. Rather then try to drag everyone down into the hole he’s digging for himself.
June 19th, 2007 at 11:57 am
Could someone pleas send Me the link to the Beneful site? I almost lost a dog on Beneful and would like to go to the site.
PS- My 3 kitties are pictured on Itchmo today. comment for Me??
June 19th, 2007 at 11:57 am
The PFI reminds me of some guys standing in a hole five and a half feet deep shoveling away thinking they are at a ground breaking ceremony.
June 19th, 2007 at 12:05 pm
Trudy Jackson,
Is this what you’re looking for?
http://www.doggybling.com/newsarticle.php?id=1099
June 19th, 2007 at 12:07 pm
5CatMom, Yes, thank you
June 19th, 2007 at 12:09 pm
Trudy Jackson,
Forgot to add, just saw your kitty photos on the front page. They’re beautiful!
June 19th, 2007 at 12:30 pm
Thanks so much 5CatMom
June 19th, 2007 at 1:15 pm
to xyz…some of us went to pet connection yesterday.
June 19th, 2007 at 1:45 pm
Trudy the babies are Gorgeous! I was thinking the Beneful site was plain ol’ Beneful like this:
http://www.beneful.com
But I might be wrong.
You take Great pix Trudy.
Mittens you speak my mind! LOL
Worthless FDA, a mouthpiece!
Also guys, there were 2 stories over the weekend I wanted Itchmo to post on homepage sometime; 1 was a story about folks who found an abandoned baby Moose and were ottle feeding him and let him in the house. But the city has an ordinance about wild animals etc yada yada. And were talking about taling it away from them. Anyone else see it??? Or know where to find a link or it???
I tell you watching that woman bottle feed that Moose was Great! :-D
The other one was, a Fox attacked a little girl in her backyard while she was playing {not with the fox!}. And it ran out of trees and jump on her and was biting her badly, her mom ran and started to get it off of her child and work at it and then a neighbor came with a stick or somthing and hit it. I don’t believe the Fox died or anything but, they said it had a Face full of Quills {porcupine?}
I’m sure the fox was in Serious pain but don’t know any much more than this. If it was caught and tested or had Quills removed etc.
Wonder if the Quills pain made it sick in the head or something.
The showed the little girl had stitches to show.
I havent seen this any where to post or send a link for Ben/Itchmo. I did not think to check who I was watching the stories on. Dif times dif channels.
BAD FDA! BAD, BAD!
{had to say that, I think it often enough! I don’t teach my pets that way but think it’s appropriate for the FDA! :-þ }
June 19th, 2007 at 2:18 pm
YaYa, thanks again and again. I love to take pics of My pets, or anyones’.
June 19th, 2007 at 2:40 pm
Ready for this:
My co-worker bought a puppy and went to the store to get his food. Guess what she bought? OMGGGGGGGGGGG WTF. She bought Beneful puppy dry. I thought I was going to have the big one. :o( I quickly educated her–she knew nothing about a pet food recall. I gave her all the links. She quickly went out at lunch and bought Innova. Whew.
June 19th, 2007 at 2:47 pm
I was talking with My Dr. yesterday. She only mentioned the toothpaste, and one pet food being recalled. I stayed a long time and told Her everything. Why did she think i needed nerve pills? Geesh!
June 19th, 2007 at 2:50 pm
I tell as many people as I know. It gets me started and boy look out!!!!!! It’s amazing how many people do not know what it going on. Very sad.
June 19th, 2007 at 2:56 pm
when I took my littlest kitty in to get retested a few days ago (diagnosed with CRF a month ago, probably from NB venison/pea dry food), the vet had not heard a thing about the acetaminaphen issues. As soon as I can get to a computer with a printer, I’m going to print out as much as I can, but now with all the articles out about the FDA lab tests, I’m sure it will get ignored.