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.

Wow. That's all I have to say.

Just say no to China dog treats!

It was Sweet Potato with Jerky that killed my Zoey!

I am confused about the sweet potatoe. Is it chicken jerky mixed with sweetpotatoe? Or dehydrated sweetpotatoe chews?

I understood it to be "sweet potato " treats as well as "duck" treats....I think when you stick anything in a dehydrator and dehydrate it, it is called "Jerky"....so "sweet potato jerky" is dehydrated sweet potato treats.....I know a lot of people feed these treats to their dogs.....I STILL say, if people want to give treats like this to their dogs, buy your own dehydrator and make them yourself....you can also do them in your oven, if you dont want to buy a dehydrator.

unreal....lets wait till we find whats killing the poor furr kids before we recall..isnt that arse backwards. well im sorry but the FDA is useless in my opinion and the companys wont risk losing precious dollars by volunteering a recall and haulting on making these products ......and you know it wouldnt surprise me if someone high up in these companies knew exactly what the bad ingredient is...

i heard on am radio yesterday the FDA has ordered baby food companies to put less arsenic in baby food rice/oatmeal/cereals as the amount in there is too high now and causes issues in infants. WHAT. RU KIDDING ME. i just about drove off the road.

If my dog died from one of those treats, I would take the remainder to a lab and have it tested for contaminants. WHY the heck won't the FDA do that? They are supposed to protect ALL of us, whether we walk on two or four legs:(

:thumbup::animal-pa

I figure at some point all treats from China will be found to be making dogs very ill and killing them.

Exactly why I bought and use a dehydrator!

Sorry to here this.

The chicken ones cost me $2,000.00 and almost killed Jack and Josie.
Jack had it the worse. I crench when I see these things in the store.

I can not wait until it cools off enough here in Central Texas to start using my oven and I can make huge batches of chicken and sweet potato jerky. My Dallas loves them but no way in h**l is he getting anything made in China.

I purchase SamsYams. They are made in the USA. I did a search for any kind of recall and didnt find any. If anyone else finds anything out there about them,I would be interested.

I guess the FDA is thinking we have too much government regulation already so they just are sitting back & let us do our own thing.