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Posted yesterday regarding the dry food recall,
http://www.petconnection.com/blog/category/2007-food-recall/

"Pet-food recall: Hills … is that it? Hello? FDA? Hello?
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I’m still having a hard time understanding this.

The FDA said this morning that there was a possibility the tainted ingredient could have gotten into a dry food product. But they wouldn’t/couldn’t tell us which one because the investigation was ongoing. Hills has now recalled a dry food product. Hello, FDA? Is that the only one? Or are you still looking at others you can’t tell us about? Could you at least tell us that?

Here’s what’s making my head hurt:

Can you imagine what would be going on now if the FDA had said there was a human product that could possibly sicken or kill, but that they had decided they couldn’t tell us which one? Would we accept their explanation that they thought they got all the problem food, and that we shouldn’t worry?

What am I missing here? Why can’t they come clean? Who are they working for? Silly me, I though it was us!

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