HI,
please tell me more about the FDA meeting, I didnt hear anything until you just went there and everyone was not there because there were not enough people to have a meeting.
Perhaps we need to let more people know about the meeting ahead of time. Do you have any suggestions or next steps?

Keep up the good work!
Cristy ( & Jack & Diogi)

I'm thinking the FDA is pretty barked-up. I'll fill my bag and send it in. YOU deserve a nice belly rub for all your good work, Eddie.

I am so sad! I cannot believe the meeting was cancelled due to non-participation! Please, please, please keep fighting the good fight, for the rest of us!

How does the meeting end super early and then the people you try to talk to are superbusy. hellloooo it should have ended at 4 and so they shouldn't have anything to do until then!
At least nothing so important that they can't answer a few questions pertaining to the reason they are there in the first place.
Humph.
I'm going to give my squeaky squirrel the death shake now.

thank you for all you do!

I agree with Cristy. I did not know anything about this FDA meeting until today. Could you post more information on it in the future so we can all become more involved?

Thanks Eddie!
Sheena (and Machiavelli)

I am speechless but at the same time this is the same FDA that told me my two dying cats and their poisoned food was not an FDA issue on March 17, 2007.....This is the same FDA whose website was such a mess senate/congress told them to straighten it out and make it so those of us who are not a webmaster could find the latest info on recalled food. However-- I never found helpful info at the FDA website-I found all of that at Itchmo and Pet Connection....so sad...what a joke for those of us who saw how horrible this acute renal failure was and for those of us who have/had compromised health pets who are eating garbage--

Thank you thank you for telling us and for all you are doing---this is definitely a team effort required and I am at your disposal.

on behalf of Smudge, still surviving after MARF from her food...
and the late Jessica and the late Harry.

I also did not know about the meeting till today. There are plenty of comments I'd like to make -- including the fact that the FDA should have done more to publicize the meeting (unless, of course, they didn't WANT anyone there to question the status quo on pet foods and toys. . . .).

Now I have to go back and see how else to let them know how vital it is that pet food be treated like FOOD and not like toxic waste. . . .

Hey Guys -- I posted about the meeting on Friday, so it was kind of short notice. Sorry about that.

Onwards and upwards, pets and friends! Here's what we're planning now...

Well this is the problem of having an meeting in a location that most people cannot get to. What they need to do is have a series of town halls in many communities across the nation. Then the rooms would be filled.

After all the hassle of trying to post comments and then finding out that you had to TELL the FDA if you wanted your comments to be public or not this is outrageous.

Public participation? They don't want it, obviously.

Public participation? They don't want it, obviously.

I think you may be right -- but they're going to get it, whether they want it or not!

That is so sad, Eddie!!!!

They do not want pet food consumers to deal with.

They want to make sure FDAAA is so far down the line that they don't have to deal at all with the fact that there is a law and an effort to make pet food safe, nutritious & regulated.

It appears they'd rather have the monied crowd of animal feed people and their lobbyists with the bigger bucks fueling their career moves and ensuring their future jobs.

If Atcheson is successful with the AFSS proposal in merging pet food into the animal feed standards tighter, we'll not see responses or safe pet food for years, if then.

We need to object to that proposal - and the agenda for today's meeting.