Senate Votes For Tighter Pet Food Standards!
Amendment Calls For System To Track Feed Contamination, Animal
Illnesses!

May 2, 2007
WASHINGTON - Responding to the massive recall of cat and dog food, the
Senate voted Wednesday in favor of stricter production and labeling
standards so people have more information about what they are feeding
their pets.

The 94-0 vote was on an amendment by Sen. Dick Durbin, D-Ill., to
broader legislation related to the Food and Drug Administration.

The amendment also called on the government to create a pet version of
the system that now tracks food contamination and outbreaks of illness
and death in people. The lack of such a system for pets became apparent
in the recent recall of more than 100 brands of dog and cat food made
with contaminated ingredients imported from China.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/18445631/wid/11915773/

http://durbin.senate.gov/record.cfm?id=273506

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