Major "wet" pet food recall of dog & cat foods ~ NOW Includes Treets & Biscuits

[NoahsMommy]

I'm so mad about this stuff, I can't see through my tears. These poor, poor animals and these poor, poor people.

Thankfully, I've only fed my furballs (all, even tho' they're spread all over - I buy thier food) dry Royal Canin.

Here's what their home page says:

The recent nationwide pet food recall initiated by Menu Foods and other companies does not include any
Royal Canin USA pet food products.

All of our pet food brands, including Feline Health Nutrition, Canine Health Nutrition, Royal Canin Veterinary Diets, Sensible Choice, and Kasco continue to be available at your local pet food outlet.

The safety and nutritional quality of our pet food is our top priority because we understand that the health of your pet is your top priority.

For details on the recall, contact Menu Foods at
1-866-895-2708 or visit the company's web site at: www.menufoods.com/recall.

I hope those people sue this/these companies up the ying yang!!! Quality control isn't hard and should be a normal business practice for goodness sake!!!!!!!!!

[Craftlady]

Part of article on MSNBC

Technically, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration is responsible for ensuring that pet foods, like human foods, are safe to eat, truthfully labeled and produced under sanitary conditions. But on Tuesday, FDA officials admitted that the regulation of pet food takes a back seat to its regulatory obligations of other food and drug sectors, and that inspections of pet-food processing plants are done only on a for-cause basis.

"There are limited resources," said David Elder, director of the Office of Surveillance and Compliance in the FDA's Center for Veterinary Medicine in Rockville, Md. Elder added that inspections of companion animals' food products are "based on risk." Which means that the processing plant in Emporia, Kans., where the tainted food was manufactured, had never been inspected by government officials until after consumers started complaining about pets dying of kidney failure. The Emporia plant remains open and continues to produce new food, according to a Menu Foods spokesperson, who adds that safety tests are being done around the clock.