Menu Foods, Inc. has identified the potentially contaminated products on the Internet at www.menufoods.com/recall. The product listing was expanded and updated as of March 23, 2007. Consumers may also contact the company at 1-866-895-2708.
Hill's Pet Nutrition, Inc. recalls Prescription Diet m/d Feline dry food from the market. This product is sold in a 4 lb. bag size # 52742 42770 (all lot numbers) and a 10 lb. bag size # 52742 42790 (all lot numbers).
Nestle Purina PetCare Company today announced it is voluntarily recalling all sizes and varieties of its ALPO® Prime Cuts in Gravy wet dog food with specific date codes.
The recalled 13.2-ounce and 22-ounce ALPO Prime Cuts cans and 6-, 8-, 12- and 24-can ALPO Prime Cuts Variety Packs have four-digit code dates of 7037 through 7053, followed by the plant code 1159. Those codes follow a "Best Before Feb. 2009" date.
Also, due to a product name change in early 2007, this voluntary recall also covers one item with the same date code labeled as ALPO® Prime Entrees in Gravy with Chicken, Rotini Pasta & Vegetables.
No other Purina brand dry pet foods are affected by the recall - including ALPO Prime Cuts dry. In addition, no other Purina dog food products, no Purina cat food products, Purina treat products or Purina Veterinary Diet products are included in this recall.
A release from Del Monte reveals that the company will voluntarily be recalling select product codes from the its pet treat products sold under the Jerky Treats, Gravy Train Beef Sticks and Pounce Meaty Morsels brands. Del Monte also supplies select products sold under private label brands.
An additional pet food company announced a nationwide recall of dog, cat and ferret pet food treats that might be contaminated with salmonella. This announcement is completely unrelated to the vast recall of melamine-tainted dog and cat food that led to kidney failure in many pets around the country.
Eight in One Inc., a division of United Pet Group Inc., is recalling all packages of Dingo Chick'N Jerky, Dingo Kitty Chicken Jerky and Dingo Ferret Chicken Jerky. The treats are currently sold around the nation at Target, PetSmart and other stores.
According to import records (via the Boston Globe), the wheat gluten was shipped to the United States from Nov. 3, 2006 to Jan. 23 of this year and contained "minimal labeling" to indicate whether it was intended for humans or animals. The vast majority went to pet food manufacturers and distributors, according to the FDA. But some of the processing plants that remain under FDA scrutiny make both human and pet food.
The pet food recall had sparked concerns over whether or not any of the contaminated wheat gluten had made it into human food. The Chinese wheat gluten imported by ChemNutra Inc. went to companies that make pet foods only, Stephen Miller, chief executive officer of the Las Vegas company, told The Associated Press.
In its first official statement regarding the Menu Foods pet food recall of cat and dog food, apparently poisoned by tainted wheat gluten purchased from a Chinese firm, Chinese officials are denying blame.
Also, the recent rash of pet food recalls has prompted some dog and cat pet owners to forsake wet and dry food & create their own pet food. Which is not advised.
At least 2,000 people are taking legal action against the manufacturer accused of providing contaminated pet food in the U.S. An Illinois attorney announced a class-action lawsuit Wednesday against Menu Foods.
The recall of pet foods and treats contaminated with an industrial chemical expanded today to include dog biscuits made by an Alabama company and sold by mega-retailer Wal-Mart. The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) said the manufacturer, Sunshine Mills Inc., is recalling dog biscuits that have been made with imported Chinese wheat gluten.
Menu Foods expanded its original pet food recall to include a much broader range of dates and varieties today. The recall now covers "cuts and gravy"-style products made between Nov. 8 and March 6, Menu Foods said today.
Representing pet owners nationwide, Sacramento law firms Kershaw Cutter & Ratinoff, LLP and Wexler Toriseva Wallace, LLP, have filed the first Class Action lawsuit against Del Monte Foods (U.S. District Court, Central District of California, CV 07-1958-GHK AJWx) arising from its alleged sale of contaminated dog food and other pet foods to the public.
China stated yesterday that it would be investigating allegations that a Chinese company exported tainted wheat gluten used in pet food linked to the deaths of more than a dozen cats and dogs in the United States.
This was the first time Chinese authorities officially responded to the uproar that has resulted in a ban on gluten imports from the Xuzhou Anying Biologic Technology Development Co. and a U.S. recall of nearly 100 brands of pet food.
"We are investigating this," Zeng Xing, an official with the press office of the General Administration of Quality Supervision, Inspection and Quarantine, told The Associated Press.
A company in Western Washington is the latest to announce a major pet food recall. Ferndale-based TW Enterprises, the makers of American Bullie A.B. Pizzle Puppy Chews and Dog Chews, is recalling seven different types of pet chews due to concerns about salmonella contamination.
Update: T.W. Enterprises of Ferndale, Wash. today alerted consumers that it is recalling its entire line of dog and cat treats it markets because they may be contaminated with Salmonella.
The latest rash of recalls has prompted a Senate investigation. "This pet food crisis is about two things: It's about contaminated pet food and a food safety system that failed us," said Illinois Senator Dick Durbin on Saturday.
The larget pet food recall in history may have been intentionally caused, according to a new report. The FDA is reporting that it is a distinct possibility that pet cat and dog food linked to kidney failure was intentionally contaminated, reports WHAS.
Pet food contaminated with an industrial chemical may have sickened or killed 39,000 cats and dogs nationwide, based on an extrapolation from data released Monday by one of the nation's largest chains of veterinary hospitals, according to the Associated Press.
The pet food recall affecting Cat & Dog food has been expanded further Tuesday to include products made at a Canadian factory recently found to have used an ingredient tainted by an industrial chemical, repprts the AP.
Menu Foods had previously recalled only cat and dog food made at its plants in Kansas & New Jersey, saying they were its only facilities to have taken delivery of imported wheat gluten later found contaminated with melamine. However, Menu Foods uncovered on Monday that some of the tainted wheat gluten had made it to Canada.
Senators will hear reportedly from veterinarians, experts on the pet food industry, FDA officials and pet food and nutrition experts. The session will focus on the ongoing investigation as well as the regulatory mechanisms that govern the pet food industry.
Pet cat & dog owners must continue to exercise caution as U.S. health officials have issued a warning that contaminated pet food is still being sold at some stores.
The FDA said it is urging all U.S. retailers to be vigilant in removing all products associated with the pet food recall, which began on March 16.
Pet cat & dog owners must continue to exercise caution as U.S. health officials have issued a warning that contaminated pet food is still being sold at some stores. In an effort to verify the effectiveness of the recall, FDA officials conducted approximately 400 checks of retail stores and discovered some companies have not removed all of the recalled products.
"FDA's priority is to make sure that cats and dogs have safe food to eat," said Dr. Stephen Sundlof, director of the FDA's Center for Veterinary Medicine. "Many of us are pet owners and animal lovers and we want pet owners to feel assured that we are doing everything we can to make sure that all contaminated food is off the shelves."
Natural Balance Pet Foods has recalled two kinds of pet food after receiving reports of cats & dogs throwing up and experiencing kidney problems, the Food and Drug Administration said on Monday.
The recall includes all date codes of Venison & Brown Rice Dry Dog Food and Venison & Green Pea Dry Cat Food. The company has not dtermined the cause of the problem, but said it is focused on one particular lot.
Natural Balance Pet Foods is working with the Food and Drug Administration to investigate the incident and is encouraging consumers not to feed either pet food product to their pets.
The Food and Drug Administration reportedly suspects the contaminated imported Chinese wheat gluten that has caused several pet food recalls may have been intentionally spiked with the harmful industrial chemical melamine.
According to the Sacramento Bee, the chemical has made it into pig feed and perhaps onto California tables, with state agricultural officials announcing late Thursday they've quarantined a hog farm where lab tests showed melamine in pig urine.
"The farm is cooperating with us to determine the disposition of all animals that have left the premises since April 3," Richard Breitmeyer, the state veterinarian, said in a prepared statement. That's the first time melamine-tainted food is known to have been shipped to the farm. He said the 1,500-animal American Hog Farm was quarantined "out of an abundance of caution."
Royal Canin USA issued a statement on Friday that they are voluntarily recalling all of their dry pet food products containing rice protein concentrate after it found a melamine derivative in some products.
Consumers should stop using affected products immediately! We can not reintegrate enough the importance of seeking immediate medical care for your pet if they exhibit any of the following symptoms…loss of appetite, lethargy and/or vomiting. These symptoms may be signs of kidney / renal illness, which may be fatal.
Anorexia, diarrhea, lethargy, vomiting, changes in water consumption and urination habits. The lethal feature of the toxin is kidney failure. If a pet owner suspects these symptoms may be linked to the food they may have fed their pet, they should have their veterinarian run a blood test and urinalysis, so as to check the integrity of the kidneys, reports Dr. Chris Duke.
* Document product consumption - as in when the product was fed, time and relative onset of signs afterwards, and feeding methods (including other foods in the mix).
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