It’s not been easy to stay current on the Nutro dry cat food recall because there is not a lot of information out there, and some of the information is conflicting. I’ve come across a couple of resources which I found helpful. Marion Nestle posted on her Food Politics blog some history on this and other pet food recalls. Marion references Christie Keith, a writer for the San Francisco Chronicle and petconnection.com, who brings to light some additional information on FDA standards. It is important that we sort through the facts and the fiction of the current Nutro cat food recall, and these resources are a good start.

Yesterday’s news regarding China’s new law for food safety may be a step in the right direction, although many questions remain and some are skeptical that the new law will really be effective. The law encompasses human and presumably pet food ingredients, as well as medicines and other products. Ingredients such as melamine, the dairy additive recently responsible for six infant deaths as well as thousands of pet illnesses  in 2007, will be monitored under the new law. As Scott Tong discusses in the news article “Will China food law cut out bad stuff?”, implementation of the regulations will be critical, and a difficult proposition.

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