FDA Still Looking For Answers To Animal Deaths

Stumped experts at the Food and Drug Administration are appealing to pet owners for help. FDA veterinarians haven't found the cause of a poison thought to be in pet jerky made in China. The FDA's Center for Veterinary Medicine has run more than 1,200 tests and visited manufacturing plants in China, but to no avail. Testing is complicated because the poison may have come from the facility or been picked up en route to its destination. Scientists have to know what they're looking for to test for it. About 580 dogs are thought to have died from the mysterious poison over the past six years. Some advocates say the government needs to do more testing and impose stricter guidelines on labeling of imports. If only part of a product is from China and it is put together here, labels don't have to say "Made in China," he said.