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On the recordApril 2, 2007
I think when you have a company that discovers a problem that's killing animals and they don't report it for three weeks to the Food and Drug Administration, it is, at best, gross negligence.
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Dick Durbin
Democratic · Illinois

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Senator Durbin criticizes a company's delay in reporting a problem with contaminated pet food that resulted in animal deaths.

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