'After months of conferences in Washington, New York City and Chicago, between producers of dry and canned dog foods and the NRA, a code for this industry has been completed and referred to General Johnson. There is a possibility, of course, that further changes may be made before the code is signed by the President, but in view of the very full hearing that has been given to all units in the industry, changes seem unlikely.

This magazine has rendered all possible assistance in the formation of this code, not only by supplying articles on dog foods, which  have been published in its pages during the past two years and more, but through a representative, Doctor Patton, who has  attended the hearings in Washington and elsewhere. This magazine, not being financially interested in the manufacture, distribution, sale or purchase of dog foods, has been in a particularly favourable position to supply authoritative information with entire impartiality, and such information has been used largely as a "yard stick" by which claims were measured.

Veterinarians everywhere will be gratified to know that, in part, as a result of the information made available by the articles on dog food in Veterinary Medicine and a great deal of insistance, the code as now written, recognizes biological values as a basis for adequacy and quality, and not alone chemical analysis as was strongly urged upon the authorities. The purchasers of dog foods, veterinarians and all interested in the welfare of the dog have reason to be grateful for the loyalty, patience and intelligent understanding of this problem on the part of the NRA officials, and particularly of Deputy Administrator McQuillan, Consumers Research Representative Haddock, Lake of the Economic Division and others. Veterinarians will also be gratified ot know that the veterinary profession had, in Doctor Patton, a representative almost constantly at the conferences.' (193)