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

[ramanth]

That is just sickening....

[Cinder & Smoke]

I'm almost positive the plant in question is the one here in Streetsville (Ontario, Canada) ...
Streetsville is really the city of Mississauga & Mississauga is part of the Greater Toronto Area (GTA) ...

Menu Foods operates FOUR manufacturing & packaging plants:
* Emporia, Kansas
* Pennsauken, New Jersey
* North Sioux City, South Dakota
* Streetsville, Ontario

from their web site:
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Facilities

Menu’s manufacturing platform includes four state-of-the-art manufacturing facilities located in Emporia, Kansas, Pennsauken, New Jersey, North Sioux City, South Dakota and Streetsville, Ontario. These plants utilize high-speed equipment and leading-edge technologies to produce pet food in aluminum and steel cans in all currently used sizes at rates of up to 1,000 cans per minute. With the pouch expansion completed in 2005, Menu is able to produce 85g pouches at the rate of up to 1,110 pouches per minute. Collectively, these plants are capable of producing more than one billion containers annually. These facilities are designed for maximum flexibility, which, in turn, allows Menu to provide the full range of products customers’ demand.
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Depending on which news account you care to believe, two or three of the
Menu USA plants have been mentioned as the probable source of the contaminated
and recalled foods ... the Streetsville, Ontario, plant has NOT been mentioned
as a location that produced any bad lots of food.

Final resolution will probably depend on which plant locations actually received
a shipment of the suspected contaminated Wheat Gluton.

ANNNND ... there's always the POSSIBILITY that the rat poison contamination
MAY - stress MAY - not have happened at the supplier who produced the Wheat Gluton ...
the rat poison MAY have mixed with the Wheat Gluton in a truck or a railroad car,
OR at the storage container AT the Menu plant.

Hard to believe the Wheat Gluton was produced in CHINA ... but these days
nothing is impossible.

/s/ Phred

[momoffuzzyfaces]

This just makes me sick!!! I'm surprised more animals didn't die!!!

[todd]

This is so sad

[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.

[king2005]

Menu Foods operates FOUR manufacturing & packaging plants:
* Emporia, Kansas
* Pennsauken, New Jersey
* North Sioux City, South Dakota
* Streetsville, Ontario

from their web site:
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Facilities

Menu’s manufacturing platform includes four state-of-the-art manufacturing facilities located in Emporia, Kansas, Pennsauken, New Jersey, North Sioux City, South Dakota and Streetsville, Ontario. These plants utilize high-speed equipment and leading-edge technologies to produce pet food in aluminum and steel cans in all currently used sizes at rates of up to 1,000 cans per minute. With the pouch expansion completed in 2005, Menu is able to produce 85g pouches at the rate of up to 1,110 pouches per minute. Collectively, these plants are capable of producing more than one billion containers annually. These facilities are designed for maximum flexibility, which, in turn, allows Menu to provide the full range of products customers’ demand.
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Depending on which news account you care to believe, two or three of the
Menu USA plants have been mentioned as the probable source of the contaminated
and recalled foods ... the Streetsville, Ontario, plant has NOT been mentioned
as a location that produced any bad lots of food.

Final resolution will probably depend on which plant locations actually received
a shipment of the suspected contaminated Wheat Gluton.

ANNNND ... there's always the POSSIBILITY that the rat poison contamination
MAY - stress MAY - not have happened at the supplier who produced the Wheat Gluton ...
the rat poison MAY have mixed with the Wheat Gluton in a truck or a railroad car,
OR at the storage container AT the Menu plant.

Hard to believe the Wheat Gluton was produced in CHINA ... but these days
nothing is impossible.

/s/ Phred

sorry...

[Freedom]

They have expanded the recall list, so you need to check the list again for the foods in your cupboards and closets.

Go here:

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

The top listings have NOT been updated. The lower listings, specific for cat and for dog, HAVE BEEN UPDATED AS OF MARCH 23, 2007. Use those links.


So far, canned and wet. No dry foods. They have added a few brands, AND in the brands already listed, they have added more date stamps.

Now they are also discussing that what has come up so far are the "acute" cases - where the concentration in one pouch or can was enough to case immediate kidney problems. They are anticipating a second round, of "chronic" cases, where one feeding alone didn't do it but repeat feedings have caused a build up of the toxin and the pets are slowly being poisoned and getting sick.

UGH!!

[momoffuzzyfaces]

I received this link from my vet today. Apparently, they want to recall all dates of this food, not just the Dec through March as first stated! This is as of March 23rd.
http://www.avma.org/press/releases/0...ded_recall.asp

[crow_noir]

With out further ado, the long awaited...

Pet Foods NOT on recall list
http://petsitusa.com/blog/?p=210

[momoffuzzyfaces]

Fox news ran a report this afternoon saying that it could take up to 6 weeks for animals to start to show effects of eating the bad food. Vets are getting lots of calls on animals who are just now showing signs.

They suggest everyone keep a close eye on your pets and get them to a vet if they show any signs even now.

[Roxyluvsme13]

Is Pedigree on the safe list, cuz I don't see it?

[finn's mom]

I didn't see Pinnacle on the list...although I only feed the dry kibble, it would still be nice to see it there. Hmm...

[lizbud]

Is Pedigree on the safe list, cuz I don't see it?

Yes it is safe. Both wet and dry Pedigree is made by Master Foods and is not
part of the recalled stuff.


Pinnacle is one brand I've never hear of, but don't think it has been recalled.

[Roxyluvsme13]

Okay, just checking. It's all Lily will eat, so I was going to be worried if it wasn't okay. It's also what Roxy eats, so good to know it's safe.