Pet Food Recall!!!!! (Read The List)

[DudeAsInCool]

UNION, N.J. (AP) - Pet owners were worried Saturday that the pet food in their cupboards could be deadly after millions of containers of dog and cat food sold at major retailers across North America were recalled.

Menu Foods, the Ontario-based company that produced the pet food, said Saturday it was recalling dog food sold under 48 brands and cat food sold under 40 brands including Iams, Nutro and Eukanuba. The food was distributed throughout the United States, Canada and Mexico by major retailers such as Wal-Mart, Kroger and Safeway.

An unknown number of cats and dogs had suffered kidney failure and about 10 died after eating the affected pet food, the company said.

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Some of the products were Iam's Cat Food, which is a premium product. Luckily Mr. Boo doesnt eat cat food in a can - because I buy the dry food. Protect your animal - read the list above

[rainbowdemon]

Looks to me like the "premium" brands and the WalMart crap are the same thing!!

[Kooperman]

My Jack Russell terrier, Elvis, thankfully has never eaten canned dog food, only dry food...plus a baby carrot every day of his life since a puppy.

[Redneck4sure]

Damn that's a long list. I bet their stock takes a beating after this news. One of the items listed is among the food that we give our 2 dogs, Terminator and T3. The codes don't match but we are throwing it all away to be safe. Most of what our dogs eat is Science diet.......and liberals.

[rainbowdemon]

.and liberals

Wonder how they taste?

[Redneck4sure]

Wonder how they taste?

I dunno. As best as I can tell they taste worse than shit judging from the look on Terminator's face when he is chewing on one. That and the fact that he will search the yard and eat some rabbit shit to get the taste out of his mouth leads me to believe that they don't taste very good. :)

[DudeAsInCool]

The FDA said at least seven, and perhaps all, of the 10 deaths, were linked to this tasting trial.

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[DudeAsInCool]

Menu Food Believes Rat Poison Was The Culprit - Some Experts Disagree

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[Hemoglobin Harry]

My Jack Russell terrier, Elvis, thankfully has never eaten canned dog food, only dry food...plus a baby carrot every day of his life since a puppy.

Does he just like them or is there a special reason for the carrot?

[DudeAsInCool]

U.S. agency investigating tainted pet food says Chinese firm dodged inspection

SHANGHAI: A Chinese company accused of selling contaminated wheat gluten to pet food suppliers in the United States failed to disclose to China's export authorities that it was shipping food or feed to the United States, thereby avoiding having its goods inspected, according to U.S. regulators.

Xuzhou Anying Biologic Technology Development, one of two Chinese companies at the center of the massive pet food recall after thousands of animals were killed and sickened, had shipped more than 700 tons of wheat gluten labeled as "nonfood" products earlier this year through a third party, a Chinese textile company.

The "nonfood" designation meant the company's shipments were not subject to mandatory inspection by the Chinese government.

The details of the case, some of which were disclosed Friday in a circular released by the Food and Drug Administration in the United States, are just the latest clues that Chinese feed suppliers may have been intentionally disguising the contents of their goods.

FDA officials are now visiting China, seeking more information about how and why an industrial chemical used in plastics and as fertilizer got mixed into pet food ingredients.

The pet food recall is threatening to turn into a major trade issue because of mounting worries in the U.S. Congress about the safety of China's agricultural exports to the United States, the ability of American regulators to protect the country's food supply and the slow pace of efforts by the Chinese government to aid the investigation.

American regulators admit that six weeks after one of the biggest pet food recalls in U.S. history, they still do not know who in China manufactured the contaminated pet food ingredients or where in China the contamination took place.

Though the agency has named two Chinese companies as the suppliers of the tainted vegetable protein, regulators suspect the companies may not have been making the feed but buying it from other feed manufacturers in China. Those producers, regulators believe, may have intentionally mixed melamine into the feed to artificially inflate the level of protein in the bags to meet pet food requirements.

"Records relating to the importation of these products indicate that these two firms had manufactured the ingredients in question," the FDA said. "There is strong evidence, however, that these firms are not the actual manufacturers. Moreover, despite many weeks of investigation, it is still unknown who the actual manufacturer or manufacturers of the contaminated products imported from China are," the FDA said.

Worried that the contaminant could continue to enter the United States and also seep into the human food supply through additives, regulators have blocked all Chinese imports of wheat gluten and warned importers to screen nearly every other kind of food and feed additive entering the country from China, including corn gluten and soy protein.

Read more at the International Tribune

They cheated to make money as pets died - disgusting pricks, I hope they all get jailed

[DudeAsInCool]

Manger of Wheat Gluten Plant In China Arrested

[DudeAsInCool]

Factory linked to tainted food found closed

XUZHOU, China -- Before Mao Lijun's business exported tainted wheat products that may have killed U.S. pets, his factory sickened people and plants around here for years.

Farmers in this poor rural area 400 miles northwest of Shanghai had complained to local government officials since 2004 that Mao's factory was spewing noxious fumes that made their eyes tear up and the poplar trees nearby shed their leaves prematurely. Yet no one stopped Mao's company from churning out bags of food powders and belching smoke -- until one day last month when, in the middle of the night, bulldozers tore down the facility.

It wasn't authorities that finally acted: Mao himself razed the brick factory -- days before the investigators from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration arrived in China on a mission to track down the source of the tainted pet food ingredients.

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