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Article: Pet food makers working to bring trust back to the table - After discovering woes, Mass. firm alerted clients and ramped up oversight
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- The Boston Globe (Boston, MA)
- Article date:
- May 22, 2007
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WASHINGTON - Pet food makers whose products have been pulled from
store shelves face one of their toughest challenges ever: regaining
customers' trust.
The nation's largest pet food recall began simply, in mid-March,
with a single manufacturer's products. Since then, it has ricocheted
across the nation, with at least 154 brands being pulled.
As a result, pet food sales have slumped. For example, semimoist
cat food sales plummeted by 31.2 percent in the four weeks ended
March 25, compared with the month prior, according to Information
Resources Inc., whose sales figures do not include Wal-Mart Stores.
While congressional critics of the Food and Drug Administration
call for the formation ...