Dear rescuers;

I just received a call back from a representative of the FDA, in response to a message I had left with their office this past Friday afternoon. I spoke with a very nice woman there ( from their Massachusetts office), who informed me that if we have any complaints of our animals becoming ill, or dying from ANY kind of dog or cat foods, that we need to log on to:

FDA Pet Food RECALL , and then click on Consumer Complaints Coordinator:
You will land at the Consumer Complant State Page
Then find the correlating phone number for your State, and call to report your pet's illness or death to that number for your own State.

She told me that this really the only way that the FDA will really know exactly how many animals are being affected by the tainted foods, and if other foods (like some dry foods) might also actually be affected. She also told me, that if you suspect you are having a problem with any of the dry cat or dog foods possibly making your animals ill, that this is the only way an investigation will be opened up on those particular foods. She told me that as of today, she had not heard of any animals dying from any of the dry pet foods, and so I went on to explain to her how many emails I had been seeing and receiving, where many consumers believe that some of the brands of the dry pet foods have also been affecting their animals.

She sounded very surprised, and again stated that this NEEDS to be reported to your various local State FDA complaint divisions phone numbers. I just hope that I have explained all of this, so that it sounds clear enough to all of you, as I felt I needed to get the word out right away, so that we can get the ball rolling on this. This is not meant to cause any kind of a panic, but as I stated earlier, I have been seeing so many emails where people suspect that some of the dry foods could also possibly making their animals ill.

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