Pet food and other pet related recalls

Tigergenesis · Postby **Tigergenesis** » Fri Mar 16, 2007 5:39 pm

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/17650075/

Thanks for the link Ray

DeadEye · Postby **DeadEye** » Fri Mar 16, 2007 7:16 pm

WoW alot of Nasty stuff . We had 5 thousands birds drop dead in Esperance from lead poisoning..Glad its 10 hours away by car .They seem to be honey and necter feeding birds ...I would,nt want to be drinking from my rain water tank ..yere last week.Iam not surprised very sad...It will go down the food chain ,nasty stuff...

KyleWeiss · Postby **KyleWeiss** » Sat Mar 17, 2007 1:41 am

There's a link within that link Ray sent out that should go to a list of all effected foodstuffs made. It was broken when I tried it, but I'd be VERY curious to make sure to avoid (and pass along) the info.

KW

Postby **Zach** » Sat Mar 17, 2007 2:52 am

According to the link I got from a different person, only the "pouches" with chunks and gravy were "infected". Can anyone confirm that...

Tigergenesis · Postby **Tigergenesis** » Sat Mar 17, 2007 3:08 am

I couldn't get that link to work either Kyle

Postby **Bird_Brain** » Sat Mar 17, 2007 5:58 am

Here is the exact recall of the foods. Yes it is only canned and pouched dog/cat food that is being recalled.

http://www.menufoods.com/recall/

There is actually ALOT of different brands, so if you feed your animals canned/pouched dog and/or cat food. Check this out. Also, if you feed your BTS canned cat food!

Postby **Zach** » Sat Mar 17, 2007 2:49 pm

Geez -- has anyone been feeding cat food lately??

Cisnell · Postby **Cisnell** » Mon Mar 19, 2007 1:19 am

If you do feed your pets (not skinks) canned foods, stick with Royal Canin. Theirs was one of a VERY few vendors not recalled. They do not use Menu Foods to make their food, they make it themselves. Royal Canin is also pretty much breed specific. There's one variety, won't tell you which, of their dog food that is also used for croc food...

At a golf match this morning, a couple of the vendor reps groaned when the recall was mentioned, but the Royal Canin guy just smiled. His food isn't being recalled!

Anyway, not all canned/pouched foods are bad. The sliced meat varieties were using a new supplier of their wheat gluten that apparently isn't healthy. They have switched back to the previous supplier and will start to send out new batches of the product soon. One of the main contracted pet labels pulled their contract.

Now, you all may wonder what the difference is in pet foods? 17 out of 20 of the top name premium labels are being pulled. 17 out of 20 of the premium brands are all made AT THE SAME PLACE, just bagged differently! So, there really is NO DIFFERENCE between the brands... Unless if you know that the brand you like is an independent brand, like Royal Canin and the brand by Dick Van Patten.

Geesh, go figure.. Bad foods, same producer...

KyleWeiss · Postby **KyleWeiss** » Mon Mar 19, 2007 2:16 am

If it's not fresh, and not Merrick, I'll feed Nutro from PetSmart. It's on the list (many thanks for a working link Brad!!!!!!!!) but I don't feed pouch food.

Luckily I bought about two flats of the Nutro food and haven't fed all winter, so I doubt it's bad. I'm just not buying any for quite a while. I do cat food about once a week, if not less. Sometimes time doesn't allow a home cooked meal.

Merrick all the way!!!!!!!

KW

Tigergenesis · Postby **Tigergenesis** » Mon Mar 19, 2007 6:57 am

KyleWeiss wrote:If it's not fresh, and not Merrick, I'll feed Nutro from PetSmart. It's on the list (many thanks for a working link Brad!!!!!!!!) but I don't feed pouch food.

Luckily I bought about two flats of the Nutro food and haven't fed all winter, so I doubt it's bad. I'm just not buying any for quite a while. I do cat food about once a week, if not less. Sometimes time doesn't allow a home cooked meal.

Merrick all the way!!!!!!!

KW

Merrick and Spots Stew get thumbs up from me! :2thumbs:

Postby **Bird_Brain** » Mon Mar 19, 2007 8:30 am

Cisnell wrote:Now, you all may wonder what the difference is in pet foods? 17 out of 20 of the top name premium labels are being pulled. 17 out of 20 of the premium brands are all made AT THE SAME PLACE, just bagged differently! So, there really is NO DIFFERENCE between the brands... Unless if you know that the brand you like is an independent brand, like Royal Canin and the brand by Dick Van Patten.

Geesh, go figure.. Bad foods, same producer...

THis is not necessarily true. Yes they are made in the same plant, however, they can use different ingredients, different formulas, better quality, etc. for each individual brand.

I personally dont use any of them, however, there were still premium quality brands on that list, such as Nutro. If anyone is looking for a premium quality food, I highly recommend Eagle Pack Holistic. Yes it is expensive, but either my cat nor my dog have horrible gas. Cat doesnt have loose stools. I do not have to suppliment my dogs food with Dermcaps for her dry, itchy skin. It is just great. I couldnt be any happier. Plus it is made in the great state of Indiana! lol

Nia · Postby **Nia** » Mon Mar 19, 2007 3:00 pm

Actually, I was surprised and relieved to see Purina was NOT on the list! Purina ONE seems to be one of the few Dry cat foods that have meat as the 1st ingredient, that doesn't cost a fortune!!

Leigh · Postby **Leigh** » Tue Mar 20, 2007 4:26 am

HEY, do you think this is a USA problem as we have ASDA/WALLMART over here and a Somerfeild

Postby **Bird_Brain** » Tue Mar 20, 2007 7:52 am

yes i think it is only a USA/Canada problem. I thought I read that somewhere. But it might be a good idea to look over their website again, just to make sure.

www.menufoods.com

Postby **Zach** » Fri Mar 23, 2007 1:05 pm

What??? Rat poison?

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/17754681/

Nature's Gift · Postby **Nature's Gift** » Sun Mar 25, 2007 8:05 am

Does anyone know what is in this food that is causing this kidney failure yet - This should be a massive investigation, there are so many sad stories on tv I just cant watch them. Duty of care has been breached

What's the goss from the US about this??????

ps. Hi every one

Tigergenesis · Postby **Tigergenesis** » Sun Mar 25, 2007 8:50 am

Nature's Gift wrote:Does anyone know what is in this food that is causing this kidney failure yet - This should be a massive investigation, there are so many sad stories on tv I just cant watch them. Duty of care has been breached

What's the goss from the US about this??????

ps. Hi every one

check out the link in Zach's post just before your post. Rat poison - that's what we know for now

Postby **Bird_Brain** » Sun Mar 25, 2007 3:50 pm

Just to add what Tiger said, this "type" of rat poison is not approved to be used as such in the US. They are still trying to figure out how it got there.

Postby **Zach** » Mon Mar 26, 2007 1:55 am

As always, likely a disgruntled worker!

Tigergenesis · Postby **Tigergenesis** » Mon Mar 26, 2007 3:09 am

The wheat gluten is from a supplier in China and they used it, but still why was it on it? You don't put rat poison on crops etc.

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