Pet Food Safety

• Hill’s DCM study seeks 1,000 dogs for genetic screening January 22, 2020
  Hill’s Pet Nutrition allied with Embark, a DNA analysis company focused on dogs, to look for potential connections between canine dilated cardiomyopathy (DCM) and specific codes in the dogs’ DNA.
• DCM and grain-free pet food: What will 2020 bring? January 6, 2020
  As the pet food industry begins a new year, we wish for continued, comprehensive DCM investigations by FDA and others, plus more discreet alerts by FDA.
• 29 DCM articles, blogs on Petfood Industry in 2019 January 3, 2020
  From January to December 2019, these 29 news articles, blogs, features and press releases directly related to canine dilated cardiomyopathy, industry and public reactions or the U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s investigation into correlations among the disease and certain pet food formulations.
• Genomics may help DCM and lead to targeted dog nutrition December 31, 2019
  With more effort to identify the genetic components of DCM, perhaps dog foods could be formulated specifically for at-risk dogs.
• FDA warns Hill’s that vitamin D dog food reply deficient December 16, 2019
  The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) sent a warning letter to Hill’s Pet Nutrition on November 20, related to the company’s recall of wet dog food for toxic levels of vitamin D.
• 3 steps to earning skeptical pet owners’ trust December 11, 2019
  Pet food buyers’ may have become jaded and skeptical over the past several decades, as violations of the public trust by government, business, religious and other institutions became more visible.