The Association of American Feed Control Officials (AAFCO) - a private organization - works in cooperation with FDA's Center for Veterinary Medicine to establish pet food regulations and ALL pet food ingredient definitions. AAFCO has recently banned pet owners and consumer advocates that have spoken out against some of AAFCO's rules, banning them from participating in any future meetings.

Those banned include:

A consumer advocate who spoke out against a feed ingredient that utilized expired grocery store foods in plastic containers. This consumer advocate stated to AAFCO the ingredient should not be approved, no child should be drinking milk with phthalates (elements of plastic) in it. She has been banned from attending any future meeting and voicing her opinion.

A veterinarian that spoke out about prescription pet foods being allowed to be referenced as a drug when they are not held to drug manufacturing standards. She has been banned from attending any future meeting and voicing her opinion.

A pet owner who expressed her concern that regulatory authorities are ignoring law allowing pet foods to kill and harm pets. She has been banned too.

We are asking the FDA to immediately STOP participating in AAFCO meetings. When FDA doesn't participate in AAFCO, AAFCO's consumer bias stops (and so does AAFCO).

Pet food regulatory meetings MUST be free and open to the public, and MUST allow consumers the opportunity to voice their pet food concerns. 

Please sign and share with everyone you know. AAFCO MUST BE STOPPED from their inexcusable bias against pet owners who want nothing more than safe pet food.