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Yorkiemom1 · 09-19-2012, 04:20 PM

The FDA’s Updated Warning
There’s nothing really new or helpful here, but from the updated consumer warning:

•Complaints have now expanded from chicken jerky treats to other types, including duck and sweet potato jerky treats.
•The FDA continues to maintain no specific products have been recalled because a definitive cause of the toxicity has not been identified. (For the names of specific products noted in internal FDA documents and published by MSNBC.com, read here.)
•In response to the question “Why aren’t these products being taken off the market,” the FDA points out there is nothing preventing the companies that sell the stuff from doing their own voluntary recalls. The agency’s regulations don’t allow it to pull products from store shelves based on complaints alone: “It is important to understand that unless a contaminant is detected and we have evidence that a product is adulterated, we are limited in what regulatory actions we can take.”•As part of the ongoing (since 2007) investigation, the FDA and other diagnostic laboratories in the U.S. have tested for Salmonella, metals, furans, pesticides, antibiotics, mycotoxins, rodenticides, nephrotoxins (such as aristolochic acid, maleic acid, paraquat, ethylene glycol, diethylene glycol, toxic hydrocarbons, melamine and related triazines) and screened for other chemicals and poisonous compounds.
Samples have also undergone DNA verification for the presence of poultry and have been analyzed for nutritional composition (fatty acids, crude fiber, glycerol, protein, ash and moisture), vitamin D excess and enterotoxins.

Despite all this testing, a definitive cause for the illnesses and deaths of pets has not been determined.

•The FDA stops short of advising consumers not to feed chicken jerky products to companion animals. Instead, it cautions consumers who choose to feed these products to watch their pets closely for symptoms including decreased appetite, decreased activity, vomiting, diarrhea (sometimes with blood), increased water consumption, or increased urination.

09-19-2012, 04:20 PM	#1
Yorkiemom1 Rosehill Yorkies Donating YT Member Join Date: Dec 2007 Location: Houston Texas Posts: 9,462	FDA Update on Treats...now includes sweet potato The FDA’s Updated Warning There’s nothing really new or helpful here, but from the updated consumer warning: •Complaints have now expanded from chicken jerky treats to other types, including duck and sweet potato jerky treats. •The FDA continues to maintain no specific products have been recalled because a definitive cause of the toxicity has not been identified. (For the names of specific products noted in internal FDA documents and published by MSNBC.com, read here.) •In response to the question “Why aren’t these products being taken off the market,” the FDA points out there is nothing preventing the companies that sell the stuff from doing their own voluntary recalls. The agency’s regulations don’t allow it to pull products from store shelves based on complaints alone: “It is important to understand that unless a contaminant is detected and we have evidence that a product is adulterated, we are limited in what regulatory actions we can take.”•As part of the ongoing (since 2007) investigation, the FDA and other diagnostic laboratories in the U.S. have tested for Salmonella, metals, furans, pesticides, antibiotics, mycotoxins, rodenticides, nephrotoxins (such as aristolochic acid, maleic acid, paraquat, ethylene glycol, diethylene glycol, toxic hydrocarbons, melamine and related triazines) and screened for other chemicals and poisonous compounds. Samples have also undergone DNA verification for the presence of poultry and have been analyzed for nutritional composition (fatty acids, crude fiber, glycerol, protein, ash and moisture), vitamin D excess and enterotoxins. Despite all this testing, a definitive cause for the illnesses and deaths of pets has not been determined. •The FDA stops short of advising consumers not to feed chicken jerky products to companion animals. Instead, it cautions consumers who choose to feed these products to watch their pets closely for symptoms including decreased appetite, decreased activity, vomiting, diarrhea (sometimes with blood), increased water consumption, or increased urination.