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Food fraud laws that include pet food would help prevent tragedies like this. The US FDA has investigated covert substitutions of cheap meat being substituted for more expensive meat in pet foods using DNA technology.
https://www.msn.com/en-au/news/aust...st-pet-food-contamination-outbreak/ar-AARb5tp
Vets reveal toll of treating sick dogs during Victoria's worst pet food contamination outbreak
By Emma Field
26/11/2021
In June a veterinary clinic in Bairnsdale, in eastern Victoria, started seeing pet dogs with a mystery illness — within days they were inundated with sick animals all suffering the same symptoms.
Soon after they called the authorities.
All the dogs were suffering from severe liver toxicity. Eight died.
Now, staff at the Main Street Veterinary Clinic, ground zero for the worst pet food contamination in Victoria's history have told of the stress and their anguish during the outbreak that resulted in the death of 26 dogs across the state...
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-08-19/pet-food-case-closed-but-no-charges-over-dead-dogs/100389272
Toxic pet food case closed, but no charges laid over dead dogs
Vic Country Hour
/ By Warwick Long and Kellie Lazzaro
Posted Thu 19 Aug 2021 at 2:25am Thursday 19 Aug 2021 at 2:25am, updated Thu 19 Aug 2021 at 4:08am
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Missing horses
A truckload of about 25 horses from the Northern Territory bound for Queensland was redirected to Victoria due to COVID lockdowns
But not all of them were processed at the knackery in Maffra and authorities are trying to determine whether the others made their way into another area of the pet food supply chain...
https://www.msn.com/en-au/news/aust...st-pet-food-contamination-outbreak/ar-AARb5tp
Vets reveal toll of treating sick dogs during Victoria's worst pet food contamination outbreak
By Emma Field
26/11/2021
In June a veterinary clinic in Bairnsdale, in eastern Victoria, started seeing pet dogs with a mystery illness — within days they were inundated with sick animals all suffering the same symptoms.
Soon after they called the authorities.
All the dogs were suffering from severe liver toxicity. Eight died.
Now, staff at the Main Street Veterinary Clinic, ground zero for the worst pet food contamination in Victoria's history have told of the stress and their anguish during the outbreak that resulted in the death of 26 dogs across the state...
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-08-19/pet-food-case-closed-but-no-charges-over-dead-dogs/100389272
Toxic pet food case closed, but no charges laid over dead dogs
Vic Country Hour
/ By Warwick Long and Kellie Lazzaro
Posted Thu 19 Aug 2021 at 2:25am Thursday 19 Aug 2021 at 2:25am, updated Thu 19 Aug 2021 at 4:08am
...
Missing horses
A truckload of about 25 horses from the Northern Territory bound for Queensland was redirected to Victoria due to COVID lockdowns
But not all of them were processed at the knackery in Maffra and authorities are trying to determine whether the others made their way into another area of the pet food supply chain...