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Executive Board approves slate of proposals for support, nonsupport It was reported in the May, 15, 2007, JAVMA News that the Executive Board had identified a number of legislative initiatives as high priorities that the AVMA would work to help either pass or defeat. That agenda includes other bills the board believes the AVMA should go on record as supporting or opposing. For more info click here Support The Legislative Advisory Committee recommended, and the board approved, that the AVMA support the following:
More details have emerged about events leading to the major recall of pet food and about the importation of ingredients from China that contained melamine, an adulterant that seems to have an association with kidney problems in cats and dogs. Some of the specifics came to light during an April 24 hearing at the House of Representatives regarding the ability of the Food and Drug Administration to ensure food safety and security. The witnesses testified about recent recalls of human and pet foods. “Foodborne illnesses and pet food contamination demonstrate serious flaws in our food safety network,”
On the last day of April, several dozen epidemiologists, laboratory diagnosticians, clinical nutritionists, toxicologists, pathologists, and other veterinary specialists held a conference call to provide a forum for discussion of the animal health aspects of the pet food adulteration and recall. Participants were primarily from the Food and Drug Administration, American College of Veterinary Internal Medicine, American Association of Veterinary Laboratory Diagnosticians, and Veterinary Information Network. The call was arranged by AVMA staff to facilitate dialogue among these principals, and to identify any new guidance that could be offered to veterinary practitioners treating patients that became sick
Tom McPheron Phone: 847-285-6781 Cell: 773-494-5419 e-mail: tmcpheron@avma.org FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE May 18, 2007 SCHAUMBURG, Ill. —Chenango Valley Pet Foods has expanded its pet food recall to include eight new pet foods, including the first ferret food to be recalled in connection to contaminated pet food ingredients. Previously, the list of hundreds of recalled pet foods had included dog and cat foods, and some livestock and fish feeds. Chenango Valley had previously recalled pet food produced with a shipment of rice protein concentrate supplied by Wilbur-Ellis that is suspected of containing melamine and other contaminants.
The Food and Drug Administration announced that independent tests of fish at two suspect fish farms, one in Hawaii and a second in Washington state, have come back negative for the presence of melamine. Tests began after it was discovered that the two commercial farms, which produce fish for human consumption, received vegetable protein concentrate contaminated with melamine. The fish feed from the Canadian manufacturer was also delivered to 196 fish hatcheries in the United States, where the fish fry are still being held, the FDA announced.
Swine that have been held from market in several states because they were known to have consumed melamine-contaminated feed have now been released for entry into the human food supply, the USDA and FDA announced today. Poultry that have been held from market because of melamine exposure continue to be held pending more tests. The swine were determined safe for human consumption using a test scientists have developed to measure levels of melamine in the tissues of affected swine. Results indicated less than 50 parts per billion of melamine in the animals, which is considered to pose
Cereal Byproducts Company of Mt. Prospect, Illinois announced today that the FDA has determined there are melamine and/or melamine type derivatives in the rice protein concentrate produced by a single source Chinese supplier, Binzhou Futian Biology Technology Co. Ltd., and purchased by Cereal Byproducts Company through a local domestic importer. Cereal Byproducts shipped the recalled product to a total of three customers located in the Midwest between July 19, 2006 and March 14, 2007. The FDA previously found melamine and/or melamine derivatives in Wilbur-Ellis Company’s rice protein concentrate, which was purchased from the same Chinese supplier as
Kirkland, Washington-based Costco has announced the recall of one of its pet foods after the manufacturer announced that it contained rice protein that may be contaminated. American Nutrition says the rice protein concentrate in Costco’s “Kirkland Signature Lamb and Rice canned dog food” may contain melamine, an industrial chemical that was found in other recently recalled pet foods. For more information see the American Nutrition news release at http://www.americannutritioninc.com/.
Speakers at AASV meeting call for additional research, preventive measures Printer-friendly version Every swine veterinarian fears two acronyms—PCVAD and PRRS. The acronyms refer to porcine circovirus-associated disease, which practitioners often see as postweaning multisystemic wasting syndrome, and porcine reproductive and respiratory syndrome. For more info click here
WASHINGTON–It’s been at least four years since politicians pledged to enact an antispyware law, but it still hasn’t happened. Now they’re trying again. A U.S. House of Representatives subcommittee on Tuesday once again approved a bill that proposes up to five years in prison for malicious spyware-related activities. Reps. Zoe Lofgren (D-Calif.) and Bob Goodlatte (R-Va.) reintroduced the measure, known as the Internet Spyware Prevention Act, or I-Spy for short, in mid-March. For more info click hereÂ
WASHINGTON–A U.S. House of Representatives committee on Thursday unanimously approved a pair of bills that would impose a slew of new regulations in the name of spyware crackdowns and new limits on the use of Social Security numbers. In a meeting that lasted scarcely 10 minutes and was void of debate, the House Energy and Commerce Committee paved the way for amended versions of the controversial Spy Act and the Social Security Number Protection Act to go to the full House for a vote. For more info click here
The U.S. Congress is poised to create a set of massive new government databases that all employers must use to investigate the immigration status of current and future employees or face stiff penalties. The so-called Employment Eligibility Verification System would be established as part of a bill that senators began debating on Monday, a procedure that is likely to continue through June and would represent the most extensive rewrite of immigration and visa laws in a generation. Because anyone who fails a database check would be out of a job, the proposed database already has drawn comparisons
The last six months have not been particularly kind to the antispam community. Late last year, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit limited the reach of both state and federal spam laws to e-mails that contain “material” falsity or deception. And last week, a federal district court dismissed a Can-Spam claim on the basis that the plaintiff, James Gordon–who was not a traditional ISP–did not suffer the type of injury envisioned by the law, and thus lacked legal standing to sue. For more info click hereÂ