When puppy meals and treats are recalled because of bacterial or different contamination, puppy homeowners will have questions and considerations they convey to the veterinary group. Assets at the AVMA web page allow you to resolution those questions, together with a new webpage that outlines very best practices for safely dealing with dog food and treats.
New useful resource: Stay animals and folks protected
Animal meals and deal with remembers supply crucial reminder concerning the significance of dealing with meals and treats safely. House owners don’t at all times understand that their puppy’s meals and treats—similar to folks’s meals—wish to be treated in moderation to keep away from attainable contamination and sickness in each pets and folks.
That’s why the AVMA now has a webpage you’ll use to lend a hand shoppers perceive safely take care of dog food and treats. The web page explains each the how and why of dealing with meals and treats, from hand washing and when to cast off merchandise, to which teams of individuals are maximum vulnerable to sickness from attainable bacterial exposures.
The following time you pay attention or learn a information record about recalled dog food merchandise, percentage this webpage along with your shoppers and your group. Lend a hand unfold the phrase to stay each animals and folks protected.
What merchandise were recalled—and why?
Do you know that the AVMA additionally tracks and gives details about animal-related product remembers and protection indicators, together with animal meals or feeds and puppy treats? They’re all in a searchable record at avma.org/Recollects. You’ll seek by way of product identify or key phrase, kind alphabetically or by way of recall date, and clear out the record to turn simplest meals or non-food indicators.
This sensible useful resource can lend a hand each you and your shoppers keep knowledgeable about remembers and issues of safety on an ongoing foundation. And the record is going again a number of years, so you can also test on older merchandise.
To be informed about new remembers in actual time, apply the AVMA on social media, together with @AVMARecallWatch on X, previously referred to as Twitter.