After FDA Middle for Veterinary Medication (CVM) held a gathering with pet meals trade commerce teams concerning avian flu, we (Affiliation for Reality in Pet Meals) requested an identical assembly. The next is the response FDA supplied right now (4/2/25):
Pricey Ms. Thixton:
Thanks for contacting FDA’s Middle for Veterinary Medication (CVM). Concerning your under inquiry, please see the next:
Particular permission was obtained to debate present approaches to HPAI with a small group of trade representatives. That assembly was held on March 21, 2025. That permission didn’t lengthen to members of the general public or press. We had been knowledgeable you had been made conscious of the result of that assembly, and the knowledge has not modified.
Right now, completely different permission would must be sought to have such a dialog with members of the general public or press. The Company is at the moment concerned in discount in power actions, and we have no idea when or if we might be capable of request or obtain permission to have such a gathering.
Please know we’re working diligently with our HPAI response.
We ask in your persistence as there may be probably going to be lags in communication within the close to future.
Sincerely,
CVM Compliance
Oversight of Pet Meals/Animal Feed total
Reuters is reporting (4/1/25) that “An worker on the Middle for Veterinary Medication mentioned virtually all the executive employees had been terminated, together with employees on the coverage, authorized and exterior communications groups. The laboratory program workplace informed employees in an e-mail despatched on Tuesday that job cuts on the middle ‘might trigger vital challenges and delays,’ in keeping with a replica of the e-mail seen by Reuters. Whereas employees of the laboratory community weren’t minimize, the axing of management and administrative employees will deliver its operations to a halt, a supply mentioned.”
Our worries…
We’ve – over a few years – complained about FDA’s lax regulation of pet meals, and FDA’s bias towards some kinds of pet meals. We’ve submitted many emails and official requests (Citizen Petitions) over time to FDA in hope to vary their present (earlier) regulation of pet meals. Our most typical request to the company has been to cease permitting condemned animal materials to be disposed of in pet meals with no disclosure to shoppers.
However now…we’ve a really completely different concern. The potential of no regulation of pet meals. Will pet meals security be final on the listing with price range cuts?
With out regulatory oversight, we’re involved that many within the pet meals trade will start to chop corners realizing that nobody is there to analyze a pet meals criticism or implement laws.
With out regulatory oversight, we’re involved that many within the animal meals trade (livestock feed) will start to chop corners realizing that nobody is there to analyze or implement laws.
The ‘what ifs’ are daunting.
Whereas we perceive that members of Congress at the moment have many points they’re coping with, pet meals issues (and human meals issues resulting from lack of oversight of livestock feed) can’t be ignored.
Historical past has proven us that lethal issues can occur rapidly in pet meals. Eighteen years in the past (2007) proper now, pets had been dying in devastating numbers all as a result of some had been chopping corners. Inside only a few months – hundreds (some estimates are a whole lot of hundreds) of pets died. 1000’s extra suffered everlasting kidney harm all inside a really brief timeframe.
We encourage each pet proprietor to position a telephone name, ship emails to each considered one of your Representatives in Congress. Inform them do NOT neglect about your pets! Inform them you need their assurance that pet meals can be correctly regulated, per current federal laws.
Susan Thixton
Pet Meals Security Advocate
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