Recall list expands again! More added Fri. 4/27

[fragrancehound]

How do we find out which pet food brands use ANI for their wet foods or even their dry foods?

[Craftlady]

How do we find out which pet food brands use ANI for their wet foods or even their dry foods?

Answer to your question, unfortunately, when they get recalled.

Below is what I found on ANI's site, like I said above when they get recalled seems to run true in this companies case.

The corporate headquarters for American Nutrition is in Ogden, where 50% of the company tonnage is produced. Southwest Pet (a Phoenix subsidiary) produces 20% and Northwest Pet (a Woodland, Washington subsidiary) produces 30%. Products include contract manufacturing of pet foods, private label pet foods, as well as the formulation, preparation, packaging, and shipping of American Nutrition’s own brands. ANI also produces premium, biodegradable cat litter.

[Lizzie]

This from Blue Buffalo:

Due to a product-tampering incident, I regret to inform you that we are
recalling all BLUE dog can products, Spa Select cat can products and BLUE
Health Bars effective immediately. It is extremely difficult for us to make
this announcement as we spoke with many of you last week, before this
tampering incident was known, and assured you that only one production run
of Spa Select kitten dry food was unfit for consumption.

The product tampering came to our attention when American Nutrition, Inc.
(ANI), the manufacturer of our canned dog and cat foods and biscuits,
informed us that they had been adding rice protein concentrate to our canned
formulas without our knowledge or approval. Apparently this has been going
on for some time, and ANI only chose to inform us when the FDA began an
investigation of their rice protein concentrate supplies.

While this activity by ANI is in itself unlawful, the situation is further
complicated by the fact that ANI has been receiving rice protein concentrate
contaminated with melamine from Wilbur-Ellis.

So while no BLUE or Spa Select canned product has tested positive for the
presence of the melamine, and there have been no reported illnesses from our
canned foods, we have lost all confidence in the honesty and integrity of
ANI, and the products that they manufacture.

For this reason, we have decided to remove all of our canned foods and
biscuits from the retail market. While this may seem to some as a major
over-reaction, the Blue Buffalo Company was founded on the principle of
providing the highest quality and most nutritious pet foods available to our
pet parents. Anything less is not acceptable.

The obvious question is how could Blue Buffalo not know that ANI was
altering the formulas by putting in an ingredient such as rice protein
concentrate. The simple answer is we trusted ANI as a partner. They
deliberately deceived us and betrayed our trust.

In the end, it all comes down to integrity. ANI has not been honest with us
or with pet parents who trust BLUE, so we are going to temporarily stop the
production and sale of all cans and biscuits until we can provide you with
products that are exactly what we say they are.

[Lizzie]

I don't know if anyone has posted this since there are many threads on the recalled food subject, but it comes from the VetPet Digest:

The AVMA website has a list that seems easy to navigate. It's updated
daily, although I don't see the Blue Buffalo foods on it yet (the ones that
were just pulled).

AVMA food recall page:
http://www.avma.org/aa/menufoodsrecall/default.asp

AVMA list of recalled foods page:
http://www.avma.org/aa/menufoodsrecall/products.asp

Another site, where they are keeping track of the pet foods that have NOT
been recalled is here:

http://www.thepetfoodlist.com

[Craftlady]

I know I've read on other sites/articles this chineses company says "there is no problem" BS
China wont let FDA inspectors have visa's to come in and inspect. If there wasnt a problem then why not let them in the country? They are so wrong.


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Wilbur-Ellis Voluntarily Recalls Rice Protein Concentrate



SAN FRANCISCO – April 18, 2007 – Wilbur-Ellis Company is voluntarily recalling all lots of the rice protein concentrate the San Francisco company’s Feed Division has shipped to pet-food manufacturers because of a risk that rice protein concentrate may have been contaminated by melamine, an industrial chemical used to make plastics and fertilizers that can lead to illness or fatalities in animals if consumed.

Wilbur-Ellis noted that it obtained rice protein from a single source in China and shipped to a total of five U.S. pet-food manufacturers located in Utah, N.Y., Kansas and two in Missouri.

Last Sunday, April 15, Wilbur-Ellis notified the U.S. Food and Drug Administration that a single bag in a recent shipment of rice protein concentrate from its Chinese supplier, Binzhou Futian Biology Technology Co. Ltd., had tested positive for melamine. Unlike the other white-colored bags in that shipment, the bag in question was pink and had the word “melamine” stenciled upon it. Wilbur-Ellis separated that bag and quarantined the entire shipment for further testing and since that time, no further deliveries of rice protein concentrate have been made. Samples from the white bags tested negative for melamine. However, subsequent and potentially more sensitive tests by the FDA came back positive for melamine, leading Wilbur-Ellis to voluntarily issue the recall.

Wilbur-Ellis began importing rice protein concentrate from Binzhou Futian Biology Technology in July 2006. A total of 14 containers holding 336 metric tons of rice protein concentrate were sent from Futian to Wilbur-Ellis. Wilbur-Ellis has distributed 155 metric tons to date.

On Monday (April 16), a pet food distributor issued a voluntary recall of its pet food, believing the source of contamination to be rice protein concentrate supplied by Wilbur-Ellis. As an additional precaution, Wilbur-Ellis is urging all pet food manufacturers using rice protein concentrate supplied through Wilbur-Ellis to recall any pet food that may be on supermarket shelves.

Consumers with questions about the pet food they use should visit the FDA Web site at www.fda.gov.

[Lizzie]

The Chinese government gave approval for travel into China to the FDA inspectors earlier this week. They must have been under tremendous pressure - and dragging their feet must have given the malign companies that tainted the food some time to clean things up.

[Craftlady]

The Chinese government gave approval for travel into China to the FDA inspectors earlier this week. They must have been under tremendous pressure - and dragging their feet must have given the malign companies that tainted the food some time to clean things up.

Totally agree now they are squeeky clean. Glad the FDA was given visa's but it's little to late

[fragrancehound]

Why hasn't this whole situation made more news? The media covered more of Anna Nicole's death than they have covered this entire recall mess.