6 Days Later, FDA Still Unaware Of Its Own Recall

David Goldstein: 6 Days Later, FDA Still Unaware Of Its Own Recall

David Goldstein Tue Apr 17, 9:45 AM ET

On April 10, after failing to get a hold of anybody who could answer my questions by phone, I sent the following email to a number of contacts at the U.S. Food and Drug Administration:


"Do you have any information regarding the report in the Marin Independent Journal that three varieties of Nutro Max cat food, not currently on the recall list, have tested positive for melamine by an independent lab? http://www.marinij.com/marin/ci_5630208

Is the FDA aware of this information, is further testing being performed, and do you expect the recall to expand? Does this suggest that the universe of recalled food will be expanded beyond these additional Nutro varieties?"

And yesterday, April 16, Veronica Castro of the FDA's Office of Public Affairs, finally sent me the following succinct reply:

"We do not have this information at this time."........

http://news.yahoo.com/s/huffpost/20070417/cm_huffpost/046050;_ylt=AuVXROaJfEDBvhsucV0zejPMWM0F

i just heard about the natural balance dog & cat recall tonight on the local news, and found another addition to the menu poison list as well.

i was able to catch a bit of that hearing with durbin on this issue---but now what? where are we going from here?