Thursday, November 11, 2010

New FDA Guidelines for Dog Food

How many of you have heard of the new recommendations the FDA is trying to pass regarding a zero tolerance for salmonella in all dog food, raw included?  The FDA is going to mandate that all manufacturers cook, irradiate, pasteurize, or high pressure process.  This will serious impact small businesses like me.  Several manufacturers and I are banding together to try to urge the FDA to reconsider their position and re-classify the dog food category into raw and processed.

Please go to www.regulations.gov, search under FDA, open comments, keyword…Salmonella in Animal Feed or Docket# HFA-305.  I urge you to comment – the deadline to submit is December 31, 2010.

Here are my comments to the FDA...OC Raw Dog Comments for FDA Docket #HFA-305

FDA recommendations...Guidance_for_Industry_Raw_Diets[1]