If a dog food brand’s been recalled, why is it still on market?
Posted by James on April 28, 2013 · 6 Comments
Question by Butterfly: If a dog food brand’s been recalled, why is it still on market?
If a dog food brand’s been recalled/put on recall list, then why isn’t it off the market and out of stores?
What brands are recently on recall?
Best answer:
Answer by mammafish
If it is was recalled it should be off the shelf. If it is still for sale, its because it has been restocked and is now not part of the recall.
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I’ve wondered the same thing. Part of it is that the labeling stays the same for awhile, but they’ll change it. Some of it is still going on, I can’t believe!!! What are grocery stores going to do? –Sell their garbage like recipe brand and make dogs get sick again?? Just imagine what the future’s going to hold!!!!!
Cause supposedly they stopped buying the ingredients that were causing the problem.. from the distributor that was the problem.. The dog foods on the recall list should all be avoided.. They had no quality control before, they got caught with their pants down, and they can’t be trusted anymore now then they could at that time.. They go for the cheap ingredients so that the food costs them less to produce, but they still over charge you for cheap ingredients.. It’s the Profit Game.. You and your dog are the ones that lose.. I say that you should refuse to buy their products until they all start using quality human grade ingredients, and stop using ingredients that cause cancer, birth defects and chronic health problems.. Don’t just go back to them because they say they have changed.. make them prove it, by using good quality ingredients!
I found stuff still on the market and I told them about it, also, you can report it, you can call your local vet’s office and ask how to go about reporting it, sometimes they will make the call!!! There has even been human food on the market that ws recalled, there are some managers that should not be managers as well as store owners. The Government does randomly check stores but it is impossibie for them to check all, so, make the call!!! Call the vets and if you get a bologna answer, call another, they are supposed to report everything. When my cat got ill, I made a copy of all i bought at the pet store. Doc turned it in also I found something on the shelf on another pet store and they said they did not know it qwas on recall, the code number matched and it was a alpo with gravy the whole deadly thing, they did take it off. They needed someone to bring it to their attention and some really don’t care!!!! They could be fined or even sued. I will say that some homeless folks eat the stuff and some babies get into the pet food bowls and if it can kill a hundred pound dog, it Can KILL A 20 POUND BABY!!! Report report, Report them!!! Tar off a upc or write it down as well as the brand and write down all the numbers on the can, when it was made, experation date, everything! If it don’t have any of that, well then buy a can aand bring it to the vet and give it to the doctor to be tested! Glad you have your eyes open on this, I still an scared on everything we buy, I certainly won’t purchase farm raised fish and afraid to purchase anything that lasts on the shelf, pasta etc. I prefer to go to the health store and buy there. We need to get our farmers back, in America that never happened here., Now, dairy is going up because there is not enough of them, Well Government, Hello???? For recent recalled stuff, the vet’s office has the list, or go to a known news chanell and you can be put through to a site for this. Stick with what your pet has been healthy with so far, purina, friskies, nine lives. However, my cat still throws up on nine lives so I am staying away, I don’t think it has anything to do with the recall though. Try http://www.petco.com and they may have a link to the lkatest there, there has been a new one lately and I cannot remember what it is.
They were recalled. And they were removed from shelves. The thing is it wasn’t the entire range of products made by the brand. It was only a certain range of lot numbers on wet/canned cat and dog food. These were made with the contaminated wheat gluten. The dry food in most cases is made with other gluten that is processed differently. There’s a lot of technical stuff that goes into it but I can tell you for sure the last thing dog food companies want are more law suites from pet owners with claimes that their food caused kidney failure in countless animals. If you go to the websites of any of the brands effected by the recall they will happily link you to lists of product names, serial numbers, lot numbers, and where they were distributed.
Other than that most of the products were unaffected. I have a cat and dog who get wet food as treats, so believe me I’ve been following this one closely.
I asked my vet the same question and she explained to me that pet food that has been recalled is recalled by ident numbers between certain dates – those items are removed from the shelf. Once there is a recall, most manufactures will make available the ident/dates of the foods that were affected so you do not feed it to your pet.
Once the new items are ready for stock they will have different ident numbers along with different dates and those food restocked are not restocked or distributed til the manufactures have tested the food and it is safe to be distributed accordingly.
The recent recall, my dog food was effected. I immediately went on line pulled the information needed, and removed all my dog food identified. I then took my 3 Pom’s to the vet that day and had all of them tested and thank god, all 3 test were negative…
It could be off recall and back out again, or the store didn’t remove it. Usually a recall invovles a certain batch if you will and those items that fall within the range of the processing numbers are the only ones removed.