Emergency: Pet Food Recall!!!

[tyr_shadowblade]

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[Shann]

ttt for all pet owners to check out!

It applies to canned and pouched food, nothing about dry food.

 

[T.K.C.]

Thank you for the info.

 

[Bob W]

Here's the CNN story:

http://www.cnn.com/2007/US/03/17/petfood.recall.ap/index.html

-Bob

 

[B Finnigan]

My mom was feeding her purebred chocolate lab that food. Last week she developed sudden onset kidney failure and had to be put to sleep. Needless to say she is pissed off. Normal kidney failure takes a long time to develope and this happened in less then a week.

 

[tyr_shadowblade]

I find it shocking that so many brands of pet food -- from "bargain" store brands to high priced "premium" brands -- all originate from the same place. What is different aside from the label? Quite possibly NOTHING, as pet food is not regulated the same as meats intended for human consumption, and penalties for non-compliance and fraud are probably far less (thus, possible fines would be accepted as a "business expense").

I have always been strongly opposed to feeding canned food to dogs. Ingredients contain uninspected and substandard meat "by products" unfit for human consumption. Not only snouts, ears, and entrails, but a good deal of fecal matter. Fell cattle is used, as are sick and dead animals. Cancerous tumors are ground into pet food. Euthanized dogs and horses have been used as well (traces of the drugs being found in the consumer product).

They'll just appeal the impending class action suit, file for bankrupcy, and get off with a slap on the wrist. CEO and board of directors should be ground up and fed to the dogs, IMHO.

 

[iceaxe]

You need to look carefully at the so-called "premium" pet foods. Iams and Eukanuba are both owned by Proctor & Gamble.

The recall illustrates how these "premium" pet foods aren't really so "premium." The Menu Foods, Inc. plant in Emporia, KS was the source of contamination. So you get the full sense of what's going on in Emporia, here's the full list of products affected:

1. Americas Choice, Preferred Pets
2. Authority
3. Award
4. Best Choice
5. Big Bet
6. Big Red
7. Bloom
8. Wegmans Bruiser
9. Cadillac
10. Companion
11. Demoulas Market Basket
12. Eukanuba
13. Food Lion
14. Giant Companion
15. Great Choice
16. Hannaford
17. Hill Country Fare
18. Hy-Vee
19. Iams
20. Laura Lynn
21. Loving Meals
22. Meijers Main Choice
23. Mighty Dog Pouch
24. Mixables
25. Nutriplan
26. Nutro Max
27. Nutro Natural Choice
28. Nutro Ultra
29. Nutro
30. Ol'Roy Canada
31. Ol'Roy US
32. Paws
33. Pet Essentials
34. Pet Pride - Good n Meaty
35. Presidents Choice
36. Price Chopper
37. Priority Canada
38. Priority US
39. Publix
40. Roche Brothers
41. Save-A-Lot
42. Schnucks
43. Shep Dog
44. Springsfield Prize
45. Sprout
46. Stater Brothers
47. Weis Total Pet
48. Western Family US
49. White Rose
50. Winn Dixie
51. Your Pet

IOW, the same "premium" stuff they put in Eukanuba and Iams, was also in all those other brands of dog food, many of which are generic "store brands." Also, a little known fact about pet foods manufactured in large plants: they produce the food in batches, and if for some reason a batch run comes up a little short, they're allowed to top it off with the leftovers from crap brands.

Vets carry Eukanuba because they get it for really cheap or free from P&G, like drug reps who give doctors free samples to promote their products. Another reason to be wary. Personally, I feed my boxer Nutramax -- the company is a little heavy on the whole "The real strength and prosperity of Nutramax Laboratories, Inc. comes from The Lord" thing, but I'd rather that than corporate giants who only care about making a profit.

 

[T-BAG]

Some poor lady was on the 6:00 news crying because she killed her own dog by giving her the tainted dog food....I also can't believe all those brands come from the same place....At least those poor folks will only have one place to sue for damages now....What jury wouldn't convict when they see ol' Poopsie's picture with a little ball in her mouth and the owner crying her eyes out...Thanks for the heads up Shadowblade....You may have saved a lot of dogs on this forum...We owe you buddy.

 

[tyr_shadowblade]

I had a 150#+ Rottweiller and a 90#+ Dobie-Shepherd. The only commercial dog food I'd buy was the 33# sacks of Purina O.N.E. Lamb & Rice kibble. They'd each get a coffemug fulla kibble with a half pound of ground turkey twice daily. I'd also buy cheap cuts of steak just for them. They loved pizza, cheeseburgers, lo mein, and lamb. Got marrow bones and smoked pig ears for treats. I would never feed my dogs anything that I, myself, wouldn't eat.

Bought a case of Iam's to go in the survival rations pantry. One day, I let 'em split a can. They LOVED it . . . but both started puking within a half hour. It all went in the trash. Got 'em canned ham, SPAM, and Dinty Moore stew instead.

 

[tyr_shadowblade]

..Thanks for the heads up Shadowblade....You may have saved a lot of dogs on this forum.

tyr_shadowblade is friend to all dogs (except little yappy ones -- they can go straight to hell). :thumbup:

 

[not2sharp]

It looks like the entire prepackaged pet food industry will soon be sued out of business. Can anyone spell M-O-N-O-P-O-L-Y?

n2s

 

[silenthunterstudios]

Thanks for providing the affected list, their site is down right now. I just gave my pups some "cuts in gravy" this weekend. I usually only give them dry food, sometimes supplemented with canned food. Watching them like a hawk.

 

[Cougar Allen]

Guys, that's the way the marketplace works. Pet food, human food, knives, auto parts, computer parts, whatever, the brand is not in any way an indication of the manufacturer. It's not at all unusual for twenty different brands to come from the same manufacturer, or for one brand to come from twenty different manufacturers, either. Sometimes a brand is the manufacturer, but not usually.

 

[B Finnigan]

One out of six animals that have eaten it have died so far.

 

[Daniel Dorn]

Is there any indication that this was, in some way, intentional on someone's part? 1 in 6 kill rate is VERY high! I can't imagine something like this just accidentally falling into the mix. So glad I use dry food. We got a few cans from the Vet a month or so ago for a sick cat, and she wouldn't touch it. The other two tried it, but promptly threw it back up. I'll have to look at those cans again, to see if it's on the list.

Daniel

 

[Bob W]

My dog gets dry food only - it's supposed to be better for the teeth. But whatever happened to canned food supply could have just as easily happened to dried pet food, especially if it was intentional.

-Bob

 

[tka1]

i have 2 dogs, a rottweiler and a lab, and thankfully we do not have any of these canned foods at home right now. we buy them quite frequently, however. this makes me completely furious! my warm wishes go out to those who lost a family member because of this bulls**t

 

[tyr_shadowblade]

Is there any indication that this was, in some way, intentional on someone's part? 1 in 6 kill rate is VERY high! I can't imagine something like this just accidentally falling into the mix.

Investigators believe it was in the "wheat gluten" protein that cam from a particular (unnamed) source, but as of yet are unable to identify what the contaminant might be. Cornell University has put it through all the standard tests (mass spectrometer, gas chromograph, biopsy of liver & kidneys, blood toxicology screen, etc.) and still doesn't know.

This will likely be ruled an "industrial accident" and the media will probably end up reporting that the 55 gallon drums used to transport the harmless wheat gluten had previously been used to transport industrial solvents or heavy metals. I've studied toxicology -- very few toxins will destroy the kidneys that rapidly. Perhaps the deceased animals were eating nothing but contaminated food for several weeks and it built up gradually? Kidney destruction after a single contaminated meal is unlikely. If that occured, it would most likely be an act of terrorism, most likely perpetrated by a splinter cell of PETA. PETA thinks that ALL domesticated animals should be killed, as it is "unnatural" to have pets. They fail to realize that domesticated dogs have been with us for well over 100,000 years.

 

[B Finnigan]

Since most PETA members are vegetarian they will not have very long lives. I know more dead vegetarians then living and the living are not all that healthy either.

 

[Andrew Taylor]

three of the factories are in the US.

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, Kansas, and Pennsauken, New Jersey, Henderson said.