Due to Kohl Harrington (producer of the pet meals documentary Pet Fooled), we’ve got been supplied with Freedom of Data Act (FOIA) paperwork from the FDA. The paperwork are adversarial occasion studies submitted by pet meals customers and veterinarians.
These studies date from 7/1/24 by means of 1/1/25.
Within the 260 pages (each paperwork), you will discover studies of pet deaths, severe pet diseases, and studies of mildew, rancid merchandise, and bug infested pet meals. An unlucky challenge we discover in all of those studies, is historical past persevering with to repeat itself (with nothing accomplished by regulatory).
Corresponding to studies of bugs in Purina merchandise…
From the newly obtained FOIA studies, report EON-602073, dated 1/7/25.
“I bought a 37 lb bag of Purina Professional Plan 27/17 Rooster and Rice Components from PetCo on January 4, 2025. Upon opening the bag on January 5th, I observed a number of reside larvae and dozens of cocoon remnants within the pet food bag. I contacted each Purina and PetCo. To my shock, PetCo states that that is sadly extraordinarily widespread with Purina Professional Plan, and so they have contacted Purina themselves a number of occasions, with no decision. If the meals is so contaminated to comprise dozens of reside larvae and unknown quantities of deceased bugs, what different unknown issues have contaminated the meals.”
Again in 2019, we share this Tweet from a pet owner to Purina evidencing the identical downside:
In different phrases, Purina has had bug points for at the least six years with no motion taken by regulatory authorities.
We additionally discovered quite a few studies of sick pets that consumed Purina Pet Meals within the newly obtained FOIA paperwork, similar to this one…
EON-603243, 1/18/25
“I bought the Purina One Rooster & Rice Components for my canine from Goal on a Saturday night time. On Sunday morning, after consuming the pet food the night time earlier than, he started having diarrhea and vomiting in a number of episodes. At one level, his diarrhea was bloody. He continued to expertise extreme diarrhea and occasional vomiting for 4 extra days (till Thursday). We didn’t assume it was the meals initially as a result of he has had Purina beforehand; nevertheless, after fully stopping the pet food he instantly stopped having diarrhea and was again to regular. I strongly imagine that the meals was contaminated or the method considerably modified.”
Quite a few studies within the FOIA paperwork had been eerily just like studies of sick pets linked to Purina merchandise one 12 months earlier. In January 2024, the FDA received 1,184 reports of sick pets involving vomiting, diarrhea, seizures, and lethargy all involving Purina merchandise. Most of the 2024 adversarial occasions reported the sickness began simply after opening a brand new bag of Purina pet meals, simply because the 2025 instance above shared.
The FOIA paperwork additionally present a number of complaints of sickness and loss of life linked to numerous manufacturers of jerky treats. Sickness and loss of life linked to jerky treats is one thing we’ve got seen in pets since 2006 (with the trigger NEVER decided by FDA).
Click Here and Here to view the FOIA paperwork.
Of concern, we didn’t discover any adversarial occasion studies (although we didn’t intently learn each report within the 260 pages) that had been linked to any recall throughout this identical time-frame.
Remembers from 7/1/24 by means of 6/29/25:
1/27/24 – Viva Raw Pet Food – uncooked – Salmonella.
5/20/24 – Mars Petcare Pedigree Dog Food – dry – steel items.
6/21/24 – TDBBS – uncooked tripe – steel items.
7/1/24 – Viva Raw Pet Food – uncooked – Listeria.
1/3/25 – Blue Ridge Beef – uncooked – Salmonella.
1/31/25 – Blue Ridge Beef – uncooked – Salmonella.
3/3/25 – Wild Coast – uncooked – Avian Chook Flu.
3/14/25 – Savage Cat Food – uncooked – Avian Chook Flu.
4/4/25 – Supercan Pig Ear Slivers – treats – Salmonella.
4/7/25 – Zesty Paws – deal with – Salmonella.
4/12/25 – Blue Ridge Beef Puppy and Kitten Mix – uncooked – Salmonella and Listeria.
Sadly it seems that the FDA Heart for Veterinary Medication took NO ACTION on any of the 260 pages of pet proprietor and veterinarian complaints, together with the one under…
EON-608777, 3/20/25
“Blue Buffalo Wilderness Rooster recipe dry cat meals”
“We had two cats affected. They lived in separate households, had been indoor cats with no publicity to outdoors animals. [Redacted] turned symptomatic within the night, we took him to the vet and so they discovered a severely enlarged liver. He was rushed to an in a single day clinic and died 24 hours after signs started. He was a wholesome 4 12 months previous tabby. [Redacted] was a wholesome 4 12 months previous shorthair who turned symptomatic [redacted]. He was taken to the vet and so they discovered a extreme an infection in his stomach. He was given IV antibiotics and ache medicine. He was to remain in a single day on the hospital. We obtained a name at 12:30 am that he had handed. He had no signs main as much as this. The one commonality is the dry cat meals. It’s Blue Buffalo dry cat meals.”
Lack of correct investigations by FDA with the intention to shield our pets is all too acquainted.
Susan Thixton
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