Kerri Slifka is one of the (only) 15 nutritionists in zoos throughout the USA. Her job is to make sure the carnivorous cats are eating a low carbohydrate diet and that the often-constipated spider monkeys are getting plenty of fiber in their meals.

Despite environmentalists who say the port encourages destruction of the rain forest by making it easier for soy farmers, loggers and ranchers to get their products to market, Cargill reopened its deep-water Amazon River port.

To help pet owners and veterinarians more easily and quickly sort through the over 100 pet foods currently recalled, AVMA, The American Veterinary Medical Association posted the complete list of recalled products on its website.

The federal government has asked the Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA) to review whether pet food should be regulated after the continues recalling of pet food products in the US and Canada.

Melamine, an industrial chemical that led to a nationwide recall of more than 100 brands of cat and dog foods has been found to contaminate a second pet food ingredient, rice protein concentrate.

New information provided by the European Medicines Agency (EMEA) has made EFSA's GMO panel to reconfirm its opinion on the use of the nptII gene as a selectionable marker in GM plants for food or feed.

Melamine, the cause of the pet food contamination has been found in pig feed at American Hog Farm in Ceres, Calofornia. Officials believe the melamine came from rice protein concentrate imported from China by Diamond Pet Food, which sold salvage pet food to the farm for pig feed.

US investigators are saying the chemical that has sickened and killed pets in the United States may have been intentionally added to pet food ingredients by Chinese producers.

Smithfield Foods said that Murphy-Brown LLC, the company's pig production subsidiary, has discovered no contaminated feed ingredients in its swine feeding system.