Major recall of pet food has animal owners frantic

[Kacey]

Pet owners were worried Saturday that the pet food in their cupboard may be deadly after millions of containers of dog and cat food sold at major retailers across North America were recalled.
Menu Foods, the Ontario-based company that produced the pet food, said Saturday it was recalling dog food sold under 48 brands and cat food sold under 40 brands including Iams, Nutro and Eukanuba.

Complete story here.

 

[Carol]

Can't get the link to work right?

 

[Kacey]

Can't get the link to work right?

Must've been operator error (me, I mean) - try it now.

You can also look at the Menu Foods Website - they're the manufacturers of the problem foods. Their article starts:

Menu Foods Income Fund (the "Fund") (TSX:MEW.UN) today announced the precautionary recall of a portion of the dog and cat food it manufactured between December 3, 2006 and March 6, 2007. The recall is limited to "cuts and gravy" style pet food in cans and pouches manufactured at two of the Fund's United States facilities. These products are both manufactured and sold under private-label and are contract-manufactured for some national brands.

Over the past several days, the Fund has received feedback in the United States (none in Canada) raising concerns about pet food manufactured since early December, and its impact on the renal health of the pets consuming the products. Shortly after receipt of the first complaint, the Fund initiated a substantial battery of technical tests, conducted by both internal and external specialists, but has failed to identify any issues with the products in question. The Fund has, however, discovered that timing of the production associated with these complaints, coincides with the introduction of an ingredient from a new supplier. The Fund stopped using this ingredient shortly after this discovery and production since then has been undertaken using ingredients from another source.

 

[tellner]

We switched our dogs to raw food - ground turkey backs and necks and the miscellaneous bits of pigs, cows, chickens and ducks that you can find at the Asian butcher plus whatever veggies are leftover or getting a little old in the fridge. It's cheaper. They really look forward to dinner. They're losing weight. They don't poop as much. They're coats are healthier.

 

[Mariachi Joe]

I feed my dogs nutro, and one has been sick. I think I'll switch brands

 

[Bob Hubbard]

Purina cat chow for us.

 

[BrandiJo]

My cats and dogs food isnt on that list thank God... if something happend to them my mom would die
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[theletch1]

My cats and dogs food isnt on that list thank God... if something happend to them my mom would die​

It's amazing just how deeply we care about the four-legged family members isn't it? We have a habit of taking in injured animals in my family...well, Erica says I have a habit of it anyway. Our cat had frost bite when we found him. Tucker had parvo when we got him and Ronin was starving to death and had a huge gash on his throat.

Thanks for posting the link for the article. Luckily, my critter food wasn't on the list.

 

[exile]

The diet for our cats and our late woolly Husky has always been of the dry-crunchy kind, which is a relief. But it's scary to think how many animals have been jeopardized by a screw-up at a single manufacturer. These days, a problem at a single production facility can mean disaster all over the world...

 

[Bob Hubbard]

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

Recalled Cat Product Information

Recall Information 1-866-895-2708

1. Americas Choice, Preferred Pets
2. Authority
3. Best Choice
4. Companion
5. Compliments
6. Demoulas Market Basket
7. Eukanuba
8. Fine Feline Cat
9. Food Lion
10. Foodtown
11. Giant Companion
12. Hannaford
13. Hill Country Fare
14. Hy-Vee
15. Iams
16. Key Food
17. Laura Lynn
18. Li'l Red
19. Loving Meals
20. Meijer's Main Choice
21. Nutriplan
22. Nutro Max Gourmet Classics
23. Nutro Natural Choice
24. Paws
25. Pet Pride
26. Presidents Choice
27. Price Chopper
28. Priority
29. Save-A-Lot
30. Schnucks
31. Science Diet Feline Savory Cuts Cans
32. Sophistacat
33. Special Kitty Canada
34. Special Kitty US
35. Springfield Prize
36. Sprout
37. Total Pet, My True Friend
38. Wegmans
39. Western Family
40. White Rose
41. Winn Dixie

Recalled Dog Product Information

Recall Information 1-866-895-2708

1. Americas Choice, Preferred Pets
2. Authority
3. Award
4. Best Choice
5. Big Bet
6. Big Red
7. Bloom
8. 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. Key Food
21. Laura Lynn
22. Loving Meals
23. Meijers Main Choice
24. Mixables
25. Nutriplan
26. Nutro Max
27. Nutro Natural Choice
28. Nutro
29. Ol'Roy Canada
30. Ol'Roy US
31. Paws
32. Pet Essentials
33. Pet Pride - Good n Meaty
34. Presidents Choice
35. Price Chopper
36. Priority
37. Publix
38. Roche Bros
39. Save-A-Lot
40. Schnucks
41. Shep Dog
42. Springsfield Prize
43. Sprout
44. Stater Bros
45. Total Pet, My True Friend
46. Western Family
47. White Rose
48. Winn Dixie
49. Your Pet

 

[exile]

Looks like Purina and Science Diet were both off the list, which is a small mercy anyway, especially in the case of Purina, with its very large share of the market...

 

[bluemtn]

My dog gets Kibbles n Bits...

 

[shesulsa]

Purina Friskies Chef's Blend for my kitty. *phew* Don't know what I'd do without her to reduce my blood pressure.

 

[Jade Tigress]

Looks like Purina and Science Diet were both off the list, which is a small mercy anyway, especially in the case of Purina, with its very large share of the market...

I know, thank God. Both of the kitties we adopted a couple weeks ago are on a combination of Science Diet and Purina. When that got low I was, and still am, going to switch to Purina ONE.

 

[exile]

I know, thank God. Both of the kitties we adopted a couple weeks ago are on a combination of Science Diet and Purina. When that got low I was, and still am, going to switch to Purina ONE.

Excellent, you got lucky, Pam! It's weird, isn't it, that this one food plant seems to be involved in so many different product lines...