02/05/2022
PET OWNER NOTIFICATION:
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) posted a Warning Letter to Pet Center, Inc., of Los Angeles, California. The letter was originally issued to the pet treats maker on February 28, 2022.
Pet Center produces a sizeable number of dog treats, including but not limited to Bully Sticks (bull pizzles), Chicken Breast Tenders and multiple flavors of SuperChews etc.
The inspections were conducted on various dates in 2021 and revealed violations of the FDA’s Current Good Manufacturing Practice requirements for animal food, which caused the maker’s products to be adulterated. See examples of some of the violations below:
1. “Flies were present throughout the facility and were landing on raw, in-process bull pizzles and chicken.”
2. “an employee used a high-pressure hose in a manner that caused blood and raw animal tissue present on the processing floor to splash onto cooked, work-in-process SuperChews that had been removed from the ovens to cool.”
3. “Animal f***s in the meat washing room, approximately five feet from an open screen door.”
4. “You did not take effective measures to exclude pests from the manufacturing, processing, packing, and holding areas and to protect against contamination of animal food by pests…”
5. “Plastic clamps used to clamp bull pizzles to dry them into a curled shape were covered in dark brown to green filth material.”
Click link below to read more:
https://www.dogfoodadvisor.com/dog-food-recall/fda-warns-pet-center/
Complete details of the Pet Center, Inc. Warning Letter posted by FDA April 19, 2022 and reported by the editors of The Dog Food Advisor.
