I am most distressed to hear the FDA has allegedly banned a dog food supplement yesterday called Immunity4Pets. The banning appears to be an arbitrary, capricious act lacking in definitive/studied proof and has the pretense of some sort of vendetta against the supplier. The FDA has approved this supplement as GRAS for people and continue to allow it to be imported as a perfectly safe and acceptable dietary supplement for humans. The FDA reached that conclusion because it was tested on animals and its safety record and toxicity studies with animals showed how safe it is!
It has reached the point where the FDA is refusing to reverse that decision. How can a Non-GMO wheat germ supplement that is GRAS for people suddenly be deemed a toxin for dogs—there are no studies and no proof that anything about this food is toxic. Wheat Germ is AAFCO approved!
Surely there must be something that you can do to help me and other pet owners get the FDA to lift this ban, reverse their decision, and allow this to be imported as a feeding material. It makes NO sense. Wheat and wheat germ are perfectly safe.
How can one or two people in Federal jobs destroy a company and potentially deprive 54 million dogs and 78 million cats of a health food supplement on a whim? It seems to me that there should be a prolonged process of study to show this is harmful for pets BEFORE you would ban it and again I just cannot understand why humans can take this but not pets? As I mentioned, it is a well studied, animal tested GRAS food supplement, not a “drug.”
