I feel sorry for the pets whose owners don't have computers or access to the internet to check for updates on the recalls. I think anywhere that sells pet food ought to be forced to have an updated report on the pet foods in their windows. I know of some immigrants who had 7 dogs die who did not even know about the recall. They do not have a good command of the English language and try explaining wheat gluten to them!
The FDA did a random sampling of stores and they found 400 stores still had tainted food on the shelves!
Anyone have suggestions?
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I have gone to my local grocery store with a 100 page recall list and posted it in the pet food aisle for people to see. I checked myself. The store didn't have any recalled food on the shelves. I heard on the news that some stores put the recalled food on sale. I guess we need a call for volunteers.
yes i know that
I know there have been some area Walmart's that had some recalled product on shelves. I think a good thing to do is to take a recall list and anyone can go into stores and check products on the shelves and if any are on the recall list, tell the store manager and they have to take it off the shelves. If they don't do it immediately, tell them you are reporting their store to the FDA and to local media. Then do that.
At least the stores don't want media attention about their neglect. Then tell offending stores you will be back at random times to make sure the product stays off the shelf.
Also, I hope those immigrants reported their dogs deaths to the FDA because even if the product was recalled, the fact that it killed their dogs, the FDA has very few dogs listed as dead due to tainted food compared to what has actually happened.
Another possiblity is to picket a store that continues to put recalled food on shelves. That would be a media story.
I am glad you are posting these updates, too, because many people are not aware of the continued updates and many pet stores, even major ones, wait until they get notice from their corporate headquarters before removing recalled food, meaning it will likely be on their shelves and sold for a day or two, then pulled.
So another thing is to take a few area Pet Stores and check their stock and take a printed list (like from the company) of breaking recall info and give it to the manager informing them they have that product on their shelves.
I think you're right on the money there. Force the shop owners to let the public know about it, or face heavy penalties like lose their business.
Many Pet stores such as PetSmart and PetCo keep updated records on the recall. honestly with as many ppl in our country who do not understand our language it is almost impossible to inform them all. Many grocerie stores such as Kroger and Walmart and other places do not really care. so in order for ppl to be sure that they can be updated about the recall i recommend that they go to a PetSmart in there area. i know that PetSmart keeps there list updated every single day and that all products are taken. As for the ppl who didn't realize there pets were sick there really were some very obvious symptoms and while i feel for them there is just no way to let everyone know when they are unable to communicate with the rest of the community.
I wish the Animal Planet channel would do something.like have one of those news banners running at the bottom at all times.
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