larry Posted March 19, 2007 Share Posted March 19, 2007 (edited) http://www.cnn.com/2007/US/03/17/petfood.r...l.ap/index.html http://www.fda.gov/oc/po/firmrecalls/menu03_07.html http://www.fda.gov/bbs/topics/NEWS/2007/NEW01590.html http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story...32-2702,00.html Menu Foods -- 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. Below are lists of specific brands recalled by Menu Foods, in addition to Procter & Gamble's recall of certain Iams and Eukanuba products. Menu Brands lists the brands on its Web site, www.menufoods.com, and advises consumers to call 1-866-895-2708 for more information. Recalled cat foods Americas Choice; Preferred Pets; Authority; Best Choice; Companion; Compliments; Demoulas Market Basket; Fine Feline Cat, Shep Dog; Food Lion; Foodtown; Giant Companion; Good n Meaty; Hannaford; Hill Country Fare; Hy-Vee; Key Food; Laura Lynn; Li'l Red; Loving Meals; Main Choice; Nutriplan; Nutro Max Gourmet Classics; Nutro Natural Choice; Paws; Presidents Choice; Price Chopper; Priority; Save-A-Lot; Schnucks; Sophistacat; Special Kitty; Springfield Pride; Sprout; Total Pet; My True Friend; Wegmans; Western Family; White Rose; and Winn Dixie. Recalled dog foods America's Choice; Preferred Pets; Authority; Award; Best Choice; Big Bet; Big Red; Bloom; Bruiser; Cadillac; Companion; Demoulas Market Basket; Fine Feline Cat; Shep Dog; Food Lion; Giant Companion; Great Choice; Hannaford; Hill Country Fare; Hy-Vee; Key Food; Laura Lynn; Loving Meals; Main Choice; Mixables; Nutriplan; Nutro Max; Nutro Natural Choice; Nutro; Ol'Roy; Paws; Pet Essentials; Pet Pride; President's Choice; Price Chopper; Priority; Publix; Roche Bros; Save-A-Lot; Schnucks; Springsfield Pride; Sprout; Stater Bros; Total Pet; My True Friend; Western Family; White Rose; Winn Dixie and Your Pet. Edited March 29, 2007 by larry Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
larry Posted March 29, 2007 Author Share Posted March 29, 2007 (edited) “Dog food recall in the USA due to contaminated ingredient : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Menu_Foods It looks like the recall was due to rat poison in one of the ingredients (wheat gluten) that came from china.... Another reason why you don't want to get any pet food (dog, cat or fish) that uses wheat ingredients from china...... as they won’t be sure what stocks are contaminated. Be careful buying any fish foods that are made in china, as wheat this is a common ingredient ie wheat, wheat germ, wheat gluten could all be affected.....” Edited March 29, 2007 by larry Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ashka Posted March 29, 2007 Share Posted March 29, 2007 (edited) Euk. Iams and Nutro are doing their own recall of the wet pouched food. All made by Menu Foods. Found Euk and Iams wet pouched food in a pet shop here in NZ yesterday... Not Happy. Received a generic email reply from Euk / Iams AU / NZ still waiting for actual answers. a site that's keeping count of sick and dead dogs & cats: http://www.petconnection.com/index.php PS if you don't want to eat food from China check your peanut butter. Edited March 29, 2007 by Ashka Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
larry Posted March 29, 2007 Author Share Posted March 29, 2007 (edited) http://www.news.cornell.edu/stories/Jan06/....dying.ssl.html :-( this is like the recall they had in asia for pedigree in the past, just a lot bigger.... http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_...15/ai_114410165 Edited March 29, 2007 by larry Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TeamSnag Posted March 29, 2007 Share Posted March 29, 2007 So is this just the canned and pouche food or the dry food also? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
larry Posted March 29, 2007 Author Share Posted March 29, 2007 (edited) so far they have said that only certain batches of wet food were affected... but it depends on what other companies may have also bought contaminated ingredients from china ! they only found out about this problem once people complained about their dogs getting sick... http://www.petconnection.com/index.php that's why i only buy australian made.... Edited March 29, 2007 by larry Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ashka Posted March 29, 2007 Share Posted March 29, 2007 (edited) Euk / Iams have said in their latest eMail that the wet pouched food on sale in New Zealand, which is made in the same Menu plant but supposedly outside the recall dates is OK to feed to Dogs & Cats. I for one am finding it difficult to believe anything they say. Euk/Iams sell their so called premium food in all the Vet Clinics here and obviously get at least some of it made with the cheapest stuff they can get their hands on along with the supermarket brands...... I've not found Nutro's wet pouched food, also made by Menu, on the shelves yet in NZ ~ they were stockpiling it in warehouses, hopefully it will be sent back or dumped. Doglet get's all home cooked meals now, it's safer if nothing else. Edited March 29, 2007 by Ashka Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dogsfevr Posted March 29, 2007 Share Posted March 29, 2007 It doesnt affect australia Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ashka Posted March 29, 2007 Share Posted March 29, 2007 It doesnt affect australia Maybe not but are you 100% sure of All States and all private importers? No doubt many Australian dog owners would like to be informed about how the pet food manufactures who do supply Australia behave. Euk, Iams and Nutro were the only ones I mentioned all three supply Australia with food made in the US & Canada. There is a New Zealand part of Dogz on Line as there is a UK part. The forum links all three together. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tramissa Posted March 29, 2007 Share Posted March 29, 2007 There's more info here and also here Might be a few more threads about it floating around. We don't get the wet food in Aus. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ShesaLikeableBiBear Posted March 29, 2007 Share Posted March 29, 2007 There has been a thread on this in general discussion recently. In so far as Nutro are concerned their wet/canned range IS NOT available in Australia. We are from NZ and used to purchase their canned product there, esp their puppy food, we have NOT AT ANY TIME been able to find a supplier here and have been informed by the importer that they are not going to introduce their canned product here in the foreseable (?spelling) future The importer is based in NZ and they in turn supply a warehouse in Brisbane. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cowanbree Posted March 29, 2007 Share Posted March 29, 2007 I have to admit this is making me nervous. I am currently feeding Nutro lamb and rice and I am reading reports that Nutro dry is affected Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
larry Posted March 29, 2007 Author Share Posted March 29, 2007 (edited) it looks like the the main problem was some wheat from china had chemicals in it, and some of the the wheat was processed and converted to wheat gluten, and this still contained the poison. the contamination wasn't discovered by the manufacturer but by customers reporting deaths in their pets, then the recall started. however-we can only hope that they have all the suspect batches of the problem ingredient.... - http://www.news.cornell.edu/stories/Jan06/....dying.ssl.html it sounds like there have been pets dying from this contamination since october, and only now they have discovered it.... why would you trust menufoods now, if it's taken so long to discover there is a problem ??? -we don't know how much poisoned wheat there was, so how do you know anything made using wheat from china is safe, if we don't know who produced the suspect wheat, and when it was made, and who bought it ? -we also don't know what other manufacturers in and out of china could have used the problem wheat... -testing for this poison is expensive i assume so not all companies would have done this yet. -i also don't believe that once the chinese manufacturer discovers what wheat is a problem, that they will necessarily destroy the wheat vs sell it cheap.... larry Edited April 3, 2007 by larry Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ShesaLikeableBiBear Posted March 29, 2007 Share Posted March 29, 2007 Cowanbree here is the link which confirms that the recall has not affected the international market. http://www.nutroproducts.com/mfintl.asp We have no hesitation at all in continuing to feed Nutro to our dogs. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ashka Posted March 29, 2007 Share Posted March 29, 2007 Thanks for the nutro link. No recall in NZ but it was shipped. Check the lists of Countries. As previously reported ~ the recalled Nutro food is being stockpiled in NZ warehouses. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
morgan Posted March 29, 2007 Share Posted March 29, 2007 There is some talk in the US that the cause might not be as simple as rat poison - some people are calling for vets to do tox screens on affected dogs to look for other possibilites. Apparently the symptom pictures don't quite fit. Much easier to blame an accidentally contaminated imported ingredient than look for other problems. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
larry Posted April 3, 2007 Author Share Posted April 3, 2007 (edited) i also wonder if they have all the suspect batches.... they are still working out whether it was just the wheat gluten from china, what if there are other problem ingredients ? We don't yet know what other ingredients come from china.... Edited April 3, 2007 by larry Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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