Publisher's Platform: FDA, why not use your Mandatory Recall Authority to protect Pets and Humans?

Publisher's Platform: FDA, why not use your Mandatory Recall Authority to protect Pets and Humans?

In less than one year Darwin’s Natural Pet Products have been found to be contaminated with Listeria, Salmonella (three times) and E. coli O157:H7.  This year Dawin’s pet food has been epidemiologically and genetically linked to kidney failure in a young child in Utah. Yet, although Darwin’s has refused voluntary recalls in both instances, the question must be asked, why has the FDA not used its mandatory recall authority? First the recalls and …