We've been getting calls every day and pretty much every person who comes in mentions it (the tainted-food recall)," said Patrick Egger of Bark & Fitz, a pet supply store in Montreal. On Friday, Hill's Pet Nutrition Inc. of Topeca, Kan., announced a recall of one of its dry cat foods (Prescription Diet m/d Feline dry food), sparking fears that other dry pet food may be tainted. On Friday, Menu Foods President and CEO Paul K. Henderson held a news conference to assure the public that all Menu Foods pet food manufactured after March 6 is "safe and healthy.
Even pet food makers not affected by the recalls are bound to feel the effects -- both pro and con. "So many consumers have lost their trust in these brands, and even if the pet food they were feeding their pets was not the exact type that was affected, I would expect consumers have now come to question the overall quality of the brand," said [Elizabeth Higgins]. Originally, Ontario-based Menu Foods recalled 60 million cans and pouches of its "cuts and gravy" style food, sold under 95 different brands, for fear of contamination after hearing reports of kidney failure and even death in dogs and cats.
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At the time, a company spokesman had said Menu Foods would "take responsibility" for any expenses people incurred if they could prove the tainted pet food sickened or killed their pet. Nearly all of those cases came from the U.S., but 27 cases were reported from Canada -- 20 cats and seven dogs. Dr. Dalen Agnew of the Diagnostic Center for Population and Animal Health at Michigan State University, one of the study's authors, called the results "a bit skewed. These are cases that made it all the way to a tertiary care facility and cases where owners wanted to go the extra mile," he said. "I suspect that there are probably at least as many other cases where the owners never bothered to go any further, to work up a complete diagnosis, because it did require money and an investment of eff...
Let's say, for instance, in a recall situation where there's a kidney toxin, like now, what if a child is the first one ill? "Our worry is that something will get into the (pet) food and then transmit through to humans, because the same place that we have our food -- the kitchen -- there's pet food on the floor, and that seems to me a potential risk." "If we're concerned about the various vectors that can carry disease through our food system -- and that's why the CFIA was set up -- I'm not sure why this particular sector seems to be off limits, and why it's not subject to some sort of controls."
Mississauga, Ont. based Menu Foods is asking retailers to remove all wet food items as a safety precaution, regardless of the date code.
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A massive North American pet-food recall got even bigger yesterday as Hill's Pet Nutrition recalled one of its brands of dry cat kibble for fear it contained melamine, the same toxin that forced Menu Foods to pull its wet "cuts and gravy" products from shelves across the continent. Hill's is taking this precautionary action because during a two-month period in early 2007, wheat gluten for this product was provided by a company that also supplied wheat gluten to Menu Foods," the company said in a statement. "One supplier's products were adulterated in a manner that was not part of any known screening process for wheat gluten," he said. "The source of that adulteration has been identified and removed from our system.
The list is long. Here are a few of the many examples: In 1995, Nature's Recipe recalled almost 454,000 kilograms of dry dog and cat food due to a fungus in the wheat. In 1999, Doane Pet Care recalled more than a million bags of corn-based dry dog food, sold under 53 brand names, that were contaminated with a carcinogenic fungus called aflatoxin. In 2000, Iams recalled 112,490 kilograms of dry dog food due to excess DL-methionine amino acid. In 2006, more than five million cans of Ol' Roy, American Fare, and other dog foods were recalled because the enamel lining of the cans was flaking off into the food. She recommends higher-quality pet foods that contain natural preservatives, such as vitamins A and C, instead of artificial preservatives. And look for foods that indicate that they us...
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