Q&A: RECALL dog & cat massive pet food recall, kidney failure, death, please check your pantry?
Question by JV: RECALL dog & cat massive pet food recall, kidney failure, death, please check your pantry?
MANY DIFFERENT BRANDS, CANS & POUCHES, CAT & DOG FOODS
A complete list of the recalled products along with product codes, descriptions and production dates was available from the Menu Foods Web site — http://www.menufoods.com/recall — and consumers also could call (866) 463-6738.
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Answer by Joy
Thank you.
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Did you know there is a pet food recall?
Question by Mr Smart: Did you know there is a pet food recall?
Pet Food Recalled Amid Reports Of Pet Deaths
Cats, Dogs Suffered Kidney Failure
POSTED: 9:09 pm CDT March 16, 2007
UPDATED: 9:38 pm CDT March 16, 2007
A major manufacturer of dog and cat food sold under Wal-Mart, Safeway, Kroger and other store brands recalled 60 million containers of wet pet food Friday after reports of kidney failure and deaths.
An unknown number of cats and dogs suffered kidney failure and about 10 died after eating the affected pet food, Menu Foods said in announcing the North American recall. Product testing has not revealed a link explaining the reported cases of illness and death, the company said.
“At this juncture, we’re not 100 percent sure what’s happened,” said Paul Henderson, the company’s president and chief executive officer. However, the recalled products were made using wheat gluten purchased from a new supplier, since dropped for another source, spokeswoman Sarah Tuite said. Wheat gluten is a source of protein.
The recall covers the company’s “cuts and gravy” style food, which consists of chunks of meat in gravy, sold in cans and small foil pouches between Dec. 3 and March 6 throughout the U.S., Canada and Mexico.
The pet food was sold by stores operated by the Kroger Company, Safeway Inc., Wal-Mart Stores Inc. and PetSmart Inc., among others, Henderson said.
Menu Foods did not immediately provide a full list of brand names and lot numbers covered by the recall, saying they would be posted on its Web site — www.menufoods.com/recall — early Saturday. Consumers with questions can call (866) 463-6738.
The company said it manufacturers for 17 of the top 20 North American retailers. It is also a contract manufacturer for the top branded pet food companies, including Procter & Gamble Co.
P&G announced Friday the recall of specific 3 oz., 5.5 oz., 6 oz. and 13.2 oz. canned and 3 oz. and 5.3 oz. foil pouch cat and dog wet food products made by Menu Foods but sold under the Iams and Eukanuba brands. The recalled products bear the code dates of 6339 through 7073 followed by the plant code 4197, P&G said.
Menu Foods’ three U.S. and one Canadian factory produce more than 1 billion containers of wet pet food a year. The recall covers pet food made at company plants in Emporia, Kan., and Pennsauken, N.J., Henderson said.
Henderson said the company received an undisclosed number of owner complaints of vomiting and kidney failure in dogs and cats after they had been fed its products. It has tested its products but not found a cause for the sickness.
“To date, the tests have not indicated any problems with the product,” Henderson said.
The company alerted the Food and Drug Administration, which already has inspectors in one of the two plants, Henderson said. The FDA was working to nail down brand names covered by the recall, agency spokesman Mike Herndon said.
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Answer by One Sexy Jeep Girl
OMG! I didn’t know that. Thanks for letting me know. I just bought canned cat food earlier today!!! I better check it.
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What is this week’s pet food recall item?
Question by darlin12009: What is this week’s pet food recall item?
SmartPak Canine Voluntarily Recalls LiveSmart Weight Management Formula
Contact:
Paal Gisholt 774 773-1100
Consumers:
800 461-8898
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE — PLYMOUTH, MA (April 25, 2007) – Wilbur-Ellis, a San Francisco-based supplier of pet food ingredients, has asked all pet food producers that used their rice protein concentrate to recall dog food produced using that ingredient due to a risk that it may have been contaminated with melamine. Melamine is an industrial chemical used to make plastics and fertilizers that can lead to illness or fatalities in animals if consumed.
SmartPak Canine used rice protein concentrate supplied by Wilbur-Ellis for a single, recently produced batch of its LiveSmart – Weight Management Formula dog food. SmartPak is voluntarily recalling that batch of the product. Virtually all of the potentially contaminated batch was recovered by SmartPak before going to customers; only 45 pet owners received shipments of the affected product and all of them have been contacted. SmartPak has not received any reports of pets taking ill as a result of feeding LiveSmart Weight Management food.
SmartPak learned of this issue last Friday April 20th, when its contract manufacturer, Chenango Valley Pet Food, Inc., informed them that a recently produced batch of LiveSmart Weight Management Formula was manufactured using rice protein concentrate sourced from Wilbur-Ellis. Immediately that day SmartPak: 1) stopped offering the LiveSmart Weight Management Formula product for sale on its website, 2) cancelled all pending orders from its customers for LiveSmart Weight Management Formula, 3) diverted monthly shipments on UPS trucks that had not yet been delivered, and 4) contacted all 45 affected customers via telephone and email, informed them of the situation, and told them to stop feeding the product.
SmartPak Canine also sent a complimentary replacement shipment of SmartPak portion paks containing another national brand of weight management food to ensure a consistent supply of food for their pet and to minimize the likelihood of a consumer continuing to feed the possibly contaminated food.
This was the first and only batch of LiveSmart food containing rice protein concentrate sourced from Wilbur-Ellis. No other LiveSmart foods contain rice protein concentrate as an ingredient. The following LiveSmart formulas do not contain either of the ingredients affected in the recall (rice protein concentrate or wheat gluten) and remain available for sale in portion-pak SmartPaks:
LiveSmart Adult – Chicken and Brown Rice
LiveSmart Senior – Chicken and Brown Rice
LiveSmart Puppy – Chicken and Brown Rice
LiveSmart Adult – Lamb and Brown Rice
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Answer by LMT07
Is this maddness ever going to be over? Thanks for the info.
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Does anyone know the product numbers of the recalled dog and cat food?
Question by catsmeowjrk2000: Does anyone know the product numbers of the recalled dog and cat food?
Menu Foods recalled 46 brands of dog food and 37 brands of cat food including Iams, Nutro and Eukanuba. The company has not released the product numbers.
The website only lists the names. It does not have the product numbers.
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Answer by Jessica
They are located on their website.
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RECALL of PET FOOD – why would they delete my question?
Question by JV: RECALL of PET FOOD – why would they delete my question?
RECALL of PET FOOD – why would they delete my question?
How can they say they want a “safe and useful community” and send me this in an e-mail?
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Answer by Buff
Don’t take it personally…someone reported you and Yahoo Answers took the question off w/o even reading the content.
The recall info is good information…thank you for passing it along!
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Where can I find a complete list of every recalled pet food product?
Question by That Guy: Where can I find a complete list of every recalled pet food product?
I need a complete list of every pet food product that has been recalled.
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Answer by crazylandp
maybe the aspca website will have it
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Does anyone know of a pet food company specifically dog food, that has never had a recall?
Question by Sam: Does anyone know of a pet food company specifically dog food, that has never had a recall?
I’m looking for information if anyone knows if there is any company out there who have never had their dog food products recalled?
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Answer by Anonymous
Iams DRY FOOD.
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Q&A: Ready for ANOTHER recall? Ol’ Roy Dry Dog Food?
Question by Mama_Kat: Ready for ANOTHER recall? Ol’ Roy Dry Dog Food?
Doane Pet Care is recalling a specific single lot of 55 pound bonus bags of Ol’ Roy Complete Nutrition dry dog food distributed exclusively by some Wal-Mart Stores.
This product has the potential to be contaminated with Salmonella. People handling this pet food can become exposed to Salmonella, especially if they have not thoroughly washed their hands after having contact with this pet food or any surfaces exposed to this product. Consumers who have the dry dog food bearing the code “04 0735 1” with a “Best By Apr 13 08” should not feed it to their pets. This voluntary recall has been issued because FDA detected Salmonella in the product.
This product was distributed in 69 Wal-Mart stores in Maryland, North Carolina, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Virginia, and West Virginia.
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http://www.itchmo.com/read/new-recall-ol-roy-dog-product-recalled-due-to-salmonella_20070606
For people checking FDA website….for some reason they are hesitating to post the latest findings of bad pet food, so don’t rely totally on their website for the current info.
There are a lot of low income people who can only afford inexpensive food for their pets. At least they are feeding their animals. The animals shouldn’t have to die because their owners do not have a lot of money!
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Answer by Rosie
I am getting scared to own a pet, how hard is it to make pet food anyways?!
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Cat food recall products with wheat gluten?
Question by Cee: Cat food recall products with wheat gluten?
So I just bought some treats for my cat called Whisker Lickin’s “Tender Moments” by Purina. I notice they have wheat gluten in them. Should I return this treat back to the store? I hear wheat gluten products are being recalled.
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Answer by Deb C
Go to the company website. See if there are recall postings. Most mass produced pet foods contain wheat gluten.
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Can Any commercial pet food be trusted? latest fda recall notice recalling some products from blue buffalo?
Question by darlin12009: Can Any commercial pet food be trusted? latest fda recall notice recalling some products from blue buffalo?
Blue Buffalo Recalls Can and Biscuit Products Due To Tampering By American Nutrition Inc.
Contact:
Consumer Inquiries:
1-800-919-2833
Media Inquiries:
David Petrie
1-203-762-9751
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE — Wilton, Connecticut, April 26, 2007- We at the Blue Buffalo Company have just learned that American Nutrition Inc. (ANI), the manufacturer of all our cans and biscuits, has been adding rice protein concentrate to our can formulas without our knowledge and without our approval. This is product tampering, and it apparently has been going on for some time. The can formulas that we developed, and trusted them to produce, never contained any rice protein concentrate. It appears that only an FDA investigation of ANI’s rice protein concentrate supplies forced them to reveal this product tampering to us.
While this activity by ANI is in itself unlawful, the situation is further clouded by the fact that ANI has been receiving rice protein concentrate from Wilber-Ellis, some of which the FDA has determined to be contaminated with melamine.
So while no BLUE or Spa Select canned product has tested positive for the presence of melamine, and there has been no reported illness due to any of our canned products, we simply cannot be sure of what ANI has been including in our formulas. For this reason, we have decided to remove all of our canned and biscuit products from retail distribution. While this may seem to many to be a major over-reaction, as other ANI customers will probably only recall the products that tested positive for melamine, we see this as a matter of integrity.
We founded Blue Buffalo on the principle of providing dogs and cats with the highest quality and most nutritious food, and we will not sell any product that doesn’t meet this standard. And under these circumstances, we cannot say that any products manufactured by ANI measure up.
The obvious question is “how could Blue Buffalo not know that ANI was putting rice protein concentrate into our canned food?” The answer is we trusted them. In business and in life, we all trust our partners to deal with us honestly. When we buy produce from our local grocery store, we are trusting growers, shippers and a series of handlers to have delivered a product that is safe and nutritious for our family. If any one of these parties betrays our trust, contaminated products can make their way to our dinner table.
And while we test for known toxins and contaminants, we don’t test for protein sources, like rice protein concentrate, especially when we did not formulate our products to contain them.
In the end, this all comes down to an issue of integrity, and ANI has not been honest with us and with the pet parents who buy our products. We will not put any product made by ANI on the shelf, and are temporarily withdrawing an important part of our business in order to be true to our pet parents.
We have already started the process of identifying a can and biscuit manufacturer with whom we can build a partnership based on trust. Once we have accomplished this, BLUE and Spa Select cans and BLUE Health Bars will be reintroduced with the high quality and superior nutrition that our brand stands for and that dogs and cats deserve.
We have informed our retail partners and the FDA about this action and will be cooperating with them to complete this recall quickly. The specific product involved includes all “BLUE” brand can dog foods, all “Spa Select” brand can cat foods and all “BLUE Health Bar” treats.
Consumers who have unused or partially used packages of any of these products should return them to their place of purchase for a complete refund.
All “BLUE” dry natural food for dogs and “Spa Select” dry natural foods for cats are not affected by this recall and are safe for consumption. Should consumers have a specific question, they can call the Company at 1-800-919-2833, Monday through Friday, 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. EDT, to receive more information.
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Answer by Goldengal
So far Candiae is squeaky clean! Thats what I feed my dogs and I am so happy with it and so are my dogs.
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