FDA DCM investigation — February 19, 2019 CVM update
Source: FDA CVM consumer-facing update page, retrieved 2026-07-30 via local chromium --dump-dom. This P2 topic records the case-report statistics and investigation status as of the Feb 19, 2019 update — a first-hand snapshot distinct from the later Vet-LIRN review (340 dogs / 9 cats at the 2019-04-30 cutoff captured in the DCM timeline).
Feb 19, 2019 CVM update claims (verified C1 substrings of source_file)
Between January 1, 2014, and November 30, 2018, the FDA received 300 reports of DCM (294 canine reports, 6 feline reports)(Case-report volume through Nov 30, 2018 — an earlier snapshot than the 340/9 Vet-LIRN figure.)This update does not include reports received in December and January due to the lapse in appropriations from December 22, 2018, to January 25, 2019.(FDA's diet-DCM investigation was paused during the federal appropriations lapse; this update covers reports only through Nov 30, 2018.)In cases in which dogs ate a single primary diet (i.e., didn’t eat multiple food products, excluding treats), 90 percent reported feeding a grain-free food.(Diet-composition finding among single-primary-diet cases — observational, not a causal attribution; see FDA_DCM_grain_free_investigation for the related "93% peas/lentils" finding.)
Scope note
These are observational case-report statistics and process notes from the Feb 19, 2019 update. FDA's causal conclusion ("do not supply sufficient data to establish a causal relationship") is in FDA_DCM_interim_conclusions_no_causal_link; the broader case-count trajectory is in FDA_DCM_investigation_timeline_2014_2024.