More of the Pet Food Scandal

It is reported that FDA agents searched a facility thought to be involved in the recent contamination of pet food yesterday.

Both Menu Foods and ChemNutra (which may have supplied the contaminated ingredient to Menu Foods) seem to be cooperating with the FDA by supplying the agency with records and complying with searches. However, they're involved in a kind of blame game. In fact Menu Foods is suing ChemNutra for supplying them with contaminated products. Menu Foods claims that ChemNutra sent them products with certificates assuring Menu Foods that the products were up to their standards. However, their products were contaminated.

While it is important to know whether ChemNutra misled Menu Foods or not, I don't think that it's good PR for Menu Foods to be involved in a public blame game. It seems like the company is simply trying to shirk responsibility. I feel that it would be much more beneficial for the company to show the public what it plans to do to prevent this tragedy from happening again. Menu Foods should hold an open meeting to discuss prevention tactics, like Tylenol did when pills were poisoned and caused several deaths.