Vic303 Posted March 17, 2007 Share Posted March 17, 2007 Dog, cat food recalled after pet deaths Associated Press Sat Mar 17, 7:32 AM ET WASHINGTON - A major manufacturer of pet foods sold throughout North America under dozens of store names is recalling millions of containers of its products while working to determine what caused kidney failure and some deaths of cats and dogs. Menu Foods said Saturday it is recalling dog food sold under 46 brands and cat food sold under 37 brands and distributed throughout the United States, Canada and Mexico. The pet foods were sold by major retailers, including Wal-Mart, Kroger and Safeway. A complete list of the recalled products along with product codes, descriptions and production dates is available from the Menu Foods website, http://www.menufoods.com/recall . Consumers with questions can also call (866) 895-2708. "At this juncture, we're not 100 percent sure what's happened," said Paul Henderson, the company's president and chief executive officer. However, the recalled products were made using wheat gluten purchased from a new supplier, since dropped for another source, spokeswoman Sarah Tuite said. Wheat gluten is a source of protein. An unknown number of cats and dogs suffered kidney failure and about 10 died after eating the affected pet food, Menu Foods said in announcing the North American recall. Product testing has not revealed a link explaining the reported cases of illness and death, the company said. The recall covers the company's "cuts and gravy" style food, which consists of chunks of meat in gravy, sold in cans and small foil pouches between Dec. 3 and March 6. The pet food was sold by stores operated by the Kroger Co., Safeway Inc., Wal-Mart Stores Inc. and PetSmart Inc., among others, Henderson said. The company said it makes pet food for 17 of the top 20 North American retailers. It is also a contract manufacturer for the top branded pet food companies, including Procter & Gamble Co. P&G announced Friday the recall of specific 3 oz., 5.5 oz., 6 oz. and 13.2 oz. canned and 3 oz. and 5.3 oz. foil pouch cat and dog wet food products made by Menu Foods but sold under the Iams and Eukanuba brands. The recalled products bear the code dates of 6339 through 7073 followed by the plant code 4197, P&G said. 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, Kan., and Pennsauken, N.J., Henderson said. Henderson said the company received an undisclosed number of owner complaints of vomiting and kidney failure in dogs and cats after they had been fed its products. It has tested its products but not found a cause for the sickness. "To date, the tests have not indicated any problems with the product," Henderson said. The company alerted the Food and Drug Administration, which already has inspectors in one of the two plants, Henderson said. Menu Foods is majority owned by the Menu Foods Income Fund, based in Ontario, Canada. Henderson said the recall would cost the company the Canadian equivalent of $26 million to $34 million. Link to comment
Vic303 Posted March 17, 2007 Author Share Posted March 17, 2007 Be sure to follow the link to the list of all affected pet foods--it seems to be the canned or pouched varieties. Even "Good Quality" brands are affected, such as Nutro Natural Choice. This affects both dog and cat foods. --Vic Link to comment
quiltys41 Posted March 17, 2007 Share Posted March 17, 2007 You need excel to read it though. I managed to use the old MS Works spread sheet cuz I'm running windows 98. Link to comment
cookiejar Posted March 17, 2007 Share Posted March 17, 2007 Recalled Cat Product Information Recall Information 1-866-895-2708 Americas Choice, Preferred Pets Authority Best Choice Companion Compliments Demoulas Market Basket Eukanuba Fine Feline Cat Food Lion Foodtown Giant Companion Hannaford Hill Country Fare Hy-Vee Iams Key Food Laura Lynn Li'l Red Loving Meals Main Choice Nutriplan Nutro Max Gourmet Classics Nutro Natural Choice Paws Pet Pride Presidents Choice Price Chopper Priority Save-A-Lot Schnucks Sophistacat Special Kitty Canada Special Kitty US Springfield Prize Sprout Total Pet, My True Friend Wegmans Western Family White Rose Winn Dixie Recalled Dog Product Information Recall Information 1-866-895-2708 Americas Choice, Preferred Pets Authority Award Best Choice Big Bet Big Red Bloom Bruiser Cadillac Companion Demoulas Market Basket Eukanuba Food Lion Giant Companion Great Choice Hannaford Hill Country Fare Hy-Vee Iams Key Food Laura Lynn Loving Meals Main Choice Mixables Nutriplan Nutro Max Nutro Natural Choice Nutro Ol'Roy Paws Pet Essentials Pet Pride - Good n Meaty Presidents Choice Price Chopper Priority Publix Roche Bros Save-A-Lot Schnucks Shep Dog Springsfield Prize Sprout Stater Bros Total Pet, My True Friend Western Family White Rose Winn Dixie Your Pet Does that help? Link to comment
KimMC Posted March 18, 2007 Share Posted March 18, 2007 That's it I'm going back to making my own pet food again! My pets were never so healthy a few years ago when I did that. Lack of time led me to switch back to premade food, they don't like it and don't do as well on it. Besides making my own saved a lot of money to. Thanks for posting this I'll share it with my friends with pets! Link to comment
Becca_Anne Posted March 18, 2007 Share Posted March 18, 2007 Just goes to show you brand means NOTHING! I feel bad for those pets Link to comment
Cricket Posted March 18, 2007 Share Posted March 18, 2007 OOPS! Sorry, I did not spot this before posting on the Sunporch. FYI, the recall has apparently been expanded since yesterday. Link to comment
quiltys41 Posted March 18, 2007 Share Posted March 18, 2007 Yep, they keep adding store brands to that list. Now the Kroger canned cat food is on the list...it was just the pouches at first. Iam's and some others are now on there too. Q Link to comment
ArmyOfFive4God Posted March 18, 2007 Share Posted March 18, 2007 So far, our brands are not on the list, PTL.... I pray it stays that way Link to comment
naturelady Posted March 21, 2007 Share Posted March 21, 2007 Well, just my luck... first I have the kitty that got poisoned with the mouse poison, now I have a different kitty at the vet getting IV's trying to keep him out of kidney failure. He has been sick since mid-Feb and I had taken him to the vet twice already. We just couldn't figure out what it was, and when I heard about the recall this weekend, I knew. Took him back to the vet yesterday and had the blood checked and all the numbers pertaining to the kidneys were high, but it looks like we caught it in time. He ate the Special Kitty packets from Wal-Mart. About a month ago, he starting acting like something was wrong with the food, and turned his nose up unless he was really hungry. I had bought some Fancy Feast and was switching between those two foods. So he didn't pig out on the Special Kitty for the past month, otherwise it probably would have killed him. He ate just enough to get sick. I heard the wheat gluten they used might as well have been antifreeze, that's how bad it is. And the 10 pet deaths are from the Menu Company's testing of 90 of their own animals. From what I'm hearing there are probably thousands of dead pets in the past 2 months from this... I am so mad. Link to comment
Vic303 Posted March 21, 2007 Author Share Posted March 21, 2007 So sorry to hear your kitty is sick from this...I have a friend who QC's for a DIFFERENT COMPANY's dog food line (not involved in the recall). He's told me of the times he has personally rejected entire trainloads of grain due to too many toxins like aflatoxin. Link to comment
naturelady Posted March 21, 2007 Share Posted March 21, 2007 I have been on-line looking at recipes for home-made cat food. I am seriously considering this.... I may try the Blue Buffalo brand (which you can get at PetsMart) It's supposed to be all natural. But I am seriously considering making my own from here on... This makes you not trust any of the foods. I just saw a story on the news of people crying because their babies died. I can certainly feel for them, I think we are going to be lucky. Link to comment
Pigzzilla Posted March 21, 2007 Share Posted March 21, 2007 Ok, Now I guess I must call the Vet. I had my Beautiful, Bestest Buddy, a silver (blue) Chowchow named Kirby Magoo sent to Doggie Heaven in late Jan. He was 12 1/2. We just thought it was his arf-ritis and old age. He was fine at Christmas, then suddenly a very sick old dog. When I get home from work I will check the codes. I was going to give the nearly 2 cases of IAMS Chunks & Gravy I still have to my son for his mutt but hadn't yet. Also have 2 boxes of the pouches. If those code match, I'm gonna be beyond pissed!! Link to comment
Kelly Posted March 22, 2007 Share Posted March 22, 2007 Alpo canned and Benifical dry wasn't on the list was it? I didn't see it but I would like to make sure. Kelly Link to comment
naturelady Posted March 22, 2007 Share Posted March 22, 2007 I didn't see Alpo and Beneficial on the list, but you might check on the label for the manufacturer and make sure they're not on the list. Looks like my kitty gets to come home tomorrow, if the blood work looks good. Then it will be a matter of praying that the kidneys maintain and don't have any permanent damage. Link to comment
Nett Posted March 22, 2007 Share Posted March 22, 2007 Has anyone located a recipe for homemade cat food and where can I get the recipe for homemade dog food? I love my animals. They are part of our family and this is something I would like to steer WAY clear of. Link to comment
mommato3boys Posted March 22, 2007 Share Posted March 22, 2007 Thank goodness for picky eating cats, they only eat dry food. Cat chow complete. Scary I am going to start looking for recipes myself Frog, Hubby and sons will beyond consolable if anything happen to these two cats. They are our owners. Link to comment
Nett Posted March 22, 2007 Share Posted March 22, 2007 Try a screaming 13yo ds and 7yo dd and 5yo ds. I know what it was like when ds2 lost his pet frog. I cannot imagine if we were to lose 2 cats and 1 dog. Link to comment
Pigzzilla Posted March 22, 2007 Share Posted March 22, 2007 We checked all the cans and pouches of IAMS dog food left from Kirby. 6 cans in 1 of the cases had the plant code but the date code was in the 5200's. The rest all had a different plant code and the date code was sooner also. Whew!! I'm sure glad they didn't match. Link to comment
Vic303 Posted March 22, 2007 Author Share Posted March 22, 2007 Originally Posted By: Pigzzilla We checked all the cans and pouches of IAMS dog food left from Kirby. 6 cans in 1 of the cases had the plant code but the date code was in the 5200's. The rest all had a different plant code and the date code was sooner also. Whew!! I'm sure glad they didn't match. Whew! Still am sad to hear about Kirby, though. Link to comment
jeanettecentaur Posted March 23, 2007 Share Posted March 23, 2007 http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070323/ap_on_...pet_food_recall just caught this on yahoo...don't know if it's been posted yet. Link to comment
Vic303 Posted March 23, 2007 Author Share Posted March 23, 2007 Well, that'd do it...now I wonder how/who etc, it got in the food mix? Link to comment
Vic303 Posted March 23, 2007 Author Share Posted March 23, 2007 UPDATE: Rat poison was sprayed on wheat purchased from China. http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=07...;show_article=1 Link to comment
Leah Posted March 23, 2007 Share Posted March 23, 2007 And they keep trying to get everyone to eat only agribusiness food and not raise any ourselves, so we are at their mercy... disgusting! Link to comment
ArmyOfFive4God Posted March 23, 2007 Share Posted March 23, 2007 Goverment pop. control is a scary thing. Link to comment
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