Your favourite American media have got it wrong again, and as usual they pay attention to Canada only when they think we've done something wrong. They probably also failed to note that Menu Foods has two manufacturing plants in the United States, where the stuff that caused the deaths in the U.S. came from. That's clear in the story at the link in the OP. Doesn't appear that U.S. standards worked very well either. Just wait, Bill O'Reilly will blame it on dope-smoking married homosexuals working in the plant in Toronto... There are standards for pet food manufacturing in Canada, but the industry isn't government regulated, it's self-regulating through organizations like the Pet Food Association of Canada. I'd agree that self-regulation is not as good as regulation by a disinterested third party, but it's not true to say there are no standards.