Fourteen US states (Arkansas, Colorado, Connecticut, Florida, Idaho, Indiana, Kentucky, Michigan, Minnesota, Mississippi, Missouri, Montana, New Mexico, and North Dakota) have state laws that conflict ...

Packaged foods (pet or human foods) that have been treated with irradiation are required to display the radura symbol (below) ...

The FDA knows EXACTLY which pet food manufacturers include adulterated ingredients contaminated with all types of substances.

Behind the scenes we (TruthaboutPetFood.com) continually try to hold the FDA accountable for enforcing law in pet food. Below are some of our recent communications with FDA… On January 28, 2026 we ...

Pet owners are told very little about what happens behind closed doors in pet food manufacturing. This issue we share of pet food manufacturing has nothing to do with the safety of pet food, but it ...

In February 2024, Keto Natural Pet Food – a small, independently owned manufacturer of grain-free pet foods – filed a lawsuit against Hill’s Pet Food claiming that Hill’s and partner veterinarians ...

Per the FDA, when a pet food makes a health claim, it crosses into a drug category (no longer a food). Specific to pet food health claims, the FDA states: “For more than fifty years, dog and cat food ...

Federal law requires complete disclosure of condemned animal material, that is up until the condemned, diseased, and 4D meat becomes a pet food ingredient. The USDA’s Food Safety Inspection Service ...

In September 2007, after the 2007 pet food recall – the deadliest pet food recall in history – Congress wrote laws meant to prevent another disaster. The laws Congress gave us – “Ensuring the Safety ...

Why would a dry dog food made with “real beef” – displaying almost half of the front label with that beef…need a flavor ingredient added to the food? Wouldn’t/shouldn’t all that ‘real beef’ be ...

To better serve our customers, we will be temporarily stopping all production of dog food effective May 21, 2026. This pause is necessary so we can carefully evaluate current issues, address them ...

The future of pet food has just been provided Generally Recognized as Safe (GRAS) status by FDA. Like it or not, it is coming to a pet food shelf soon. In this case, the FDA has provided GRAS status ...