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

[Ginger's Mom]

Could you please post a link. I would like to read about it. Thanks.

[lizbud]

I just posted this in GENERAL - I just got a breaking news report. The pet food that was recalled had rat poison in it!

I just heard it was rat poison too. It was reported on CNN. No wonder
so many died.

[Cinder & Smoke]

Posted by "smokey the elder" >>>

Here's a link from CNN News:

http://www.cnn.com/2007/US/03/23/pet.food.recall.ap/index.html

It was not necessarily deliberate.
The suspect ingredient was wheat gluten, and
rat poison may have gotten into the grain by accident.

[Cinder & Smoke]

... the food is manufactured by the individual companies (using their ingredients and recipes, etc)
and then sent to be packaged at a different facility.

What she said was that all those companies use about four or five facilities
for the packaging of their foods, and that the problem was at the packaging facilities,
not the food manufacturer's facilities.

This is incorrect ... the pet food is manufactured (ingredients assembled & "cooked")
in the same plant or plants that it is packaged in.

Many of the recalled Brands are sold by companies who just have no interest,
nor the facilities, to purchase, store, mix, and "cook" pet foods.
Example is WallyMart - they don't "make" anything - they BUY their products
in bulk from the actual manufacturer and have the WalMart Brand Label applied -
Ol'Roy in the case of the WalMart store branded pet foods.

Menu Foods has BIG Plants where they purchase & store the common ingredients that
most all of their "customers" (the Owners of the Brand Names) specify be used
in "their Brand" of food under "their" label. Menu whips up a batch of "ABC Dawg Food" today and stuffs it into "ABC Cans" ...
tomorrow they'll cook up "XYZ Cat Food" according to XYZ's recipe and pack
it into cans with the XYZ label.

ABC and XYZ never step in the kitchen - Menue Foods runs the kitchen and
packaging operations; ABC and XYZ just "sell" the stuff.

And when the Chief Cook (Mr. Menu) accidentally buys a couple railroad cars
of Bad Wheat (and uses the Bad Stuff in ALL the different brands he "cooks"),
a LOT of different brands are shipped out with bad food.

I now wonder if the "source" of the bad wheat gluton ONLY sold the bad stuff to
Menu Foods at their USA plants ... I'd like to know where else "wheat gluton" is used.

/s/ Phred

[Jadapit]

The rat poison, which may have been used on wheat imported from China, is illegal in the U.S., NBC News correspondent Tom Costello told MSNBC TV.

I found this on MSN. Here is the link if anyone wants to read the whole story. Why do they import the wheat from China? There are plenty of wheat farmers in the States, I would think anyway.





http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/17754681...15773?GT1=9145

[king2005]

I now wonder if the "source" of the bad wheat gluton ONLY sold the bad stuff to
Menu Foods at their USA plants ... I'd like to know where else "wheat gluton" is used.

/s/ Phred

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)...gives an idea where the plant is located.

Not just Wheat Gluton as a whole, but this particular W.G.! Not all W.G. will be contaminated, just the stuff from this supplier.

[CathyBogart]

Articles...fixed the links!

http://www.itchmo.com/read/rat-poiso...ected_20070323

http://abcnews.go.com/US/story?id=29...page=1&US=true

[king2005]

Here are some articles about it...

http://www.itchmo.com/read/rat-pois...pected_20070323

http://abcnews.go.com/US/story?id=2...&page=1&US=true

Either the links are incorrect, or I cannot access them

[CathyBogart]

FIXED! They should work now!

[king2005]

FIXED! They should work now!

OOHHHHHHH... now that comment makes total sence... The Wheat was sold to the USA & imported to Canada for the plants that sell the product in the USA. DAMN!