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Raw diet risks…Study results vs headlines

By Scott Weese on September 11, 2019
Posted in Cats, Dogs, Salmonella

A recent study looked at human illness associated with raw pet food and has led to headlines such as “It is safe to feed raw pet foods.”

Did the study say that?  No, it did not.

If you asked 100 people if they had a foodborne disease in the past year, I assume…

Bad advice, plagiarism…just another day for a pet food website

By Scott Weese on March 5, 2013
Posted in Dogs

Some people like to send me links to internet sites to see if they can get a rise out of me. There are a few usual suspects (both senders of information and places I get sent to) but a new one for me was tlcpetfood.com

For some reason, this site has a series of FAQ’s…

Diamond pet food lawsuit

By Scott Weese on June 8, 2012
Posted in Dogs

It’s not the first, and it’s a safe bet it’s not the last, but a lawsuit has been filed against Diamond Pet Foods in response to a case of salmonellosis in a New Jersey infant. The lawsuit claims (probably correctly) that the infant acquired Salmonella from contaminated dog food that was in the household.

Diamond Pet Food outbreak continues. Diamond Pet Food Communications..not so much.

By Scott Weese on May 21, 2012
Posted in Cats

The large recall and salmonellosis outbreak associated with a variety of foods produced by Diamond Pet Foods continues to expand, in terms of species involved, the number of cases, the number of recalled products and geographic scope. The only thing that’s not expanding in information from the company.

Reports (of varying strength) of Salmonella cases in…

Diamond Pet Foods Salmonella outbreak

By Scott Weese on May 5, 2012
Posted in Dogs

After starting off like a simple recall of potentially Salmonella-contaminated dry pet food, the Diamond Pet Food problem has now expanded into a multistate outbreak of salmonellosis in humans linked to exposure to the contaminated pet food. At last count, there were 14 affected people from 9 US states, including 5 who required…

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