I’ll bet that has something to do with it. Maybe the rule has something to do with the pet food crisis in 2007. Remember that? Millions of pound of pet food contaminated with melamine were recalled. However it was not destroyed.
At the time there were no rules on what to do with the recalled pet food. So odd lot buyers snapped it up and fed it to 20 million chickens and 56,000 hogs in the state of Indiana.
This pet food killed about eight thousands of dogs and cats and sicked twice as many.
We asked the USDA/FDA if this tainted feed going to chickens and hogs was safe for humans to consume. They put out a weak paper saying the “dilution effect” will cover it. No testing, just basing it on 10 year old rat studies. The did NOT reveal the name of the company that sold these chickens and hogs into the human food supply. Why not?
People were afraid the same food that killed their dogs and cats would then hurt them when consumed the chicken or pigs. The USDA was more concerned with the profits of the unnamed chicken and pig producer.
Did anyone get sick from this? We’ll never know because, like a lot of cats and dogs who got sick, it showed up in ways that could have been caused by other means. People have kidney problems all the time. In this case it was easier to trace because the pets all consumed the same food.
