The tragic and very
public pet food recall incidents of the past 15 years, especially the one in 2007 have made pet owners more aware of the need to stay informed.
Not exact matches
«We encourage the
public to continue to use
pet food that is not subject to the
recall.»
«I think the 2007
pet food recalls really brought the suspicion around Chinese ingredients to the forefront of the
public psyche,» said Lucy Postins, founder of The Honest Kitchen, which produces cat and dog treats and
food, sourcing a majority of its ingredients in North America and none of them from China.
But
public trust will be hard to regain after the debacle of the largest
pet food recall ever in the U.S. in the Spring of 2007 of some 60 million containers bearing scores of different manufacturer and supplier labels, including all the big brand names, that left an estimated 8,500 dogs and cats dead, and harmed hundreds of thousands of others.
«Since then, an ongoing focus on
food safety has continued to benefit all things natural, and a steady stream of smaller - scale
recalls has served to keep the issue of
pet food safety high in the
public consciousness,» wrote Shannon Landry Brown, a market analyst and the study author.