On July 31th, the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) published a list of ‘best practices’ on how food safety experts should inspect US businesses that manufacture, process and package food, including dog food.

For 5 years this has been discussed by federal and state officials and as such this is not a direct consequence of the melamine and botulism related dog food recalls the US faced this year. It just comes at an opportune moment.

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