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Posted by harley89
- April 20, 2007, 10:53:39 AMSo far the foods I use havent been recalled. When I buy food. I check before I leave and after I get back to see if it has been added. I have 1 dog and 5 cats. They better not mess with my children
Posted by Tara
- April 20, 2007, 10:04:09 AMOMG...That's just friggen awful.
Posted by ICER
- April 20, 2007, 10:00:11 AMPosted by kandykitty20012
- April 18, 2007, 11:06:51 AMThere was also alpo treats and olroy dog biscuits recalled also.......they also contained wheat gluten in them........everyone needs to check ingredients before they purchase any WET or Dry dog food......anything containing wheat gluten DONT BUY..... ;:" :;'
Posted by ICER
- April 18, 2007, 11:02:20 AMPosted by viveeee
- April 02, 2007, 06:29:13 AM :xx
Posted by Kearney
- April 01, 2007, 06:46:53 PMNestle Purina PetCare Co. said Saturday it was recalling all sizes and varieties of its Alpo Prime Cuts in Gravy wet dog food with specific date codes. Purina said a limited amount of the food contained a contaminated wheat gluten from China.
Also on Saturday, Del Monte Pet Products announced it was voluntarily recalling some of its dog and cat treats with certain date codes. The affected brands are Jerky Treats Beef Flavor Dog Snacks, Gravy Train Beef Sticks Dog Snacks and Pounce Meaty Morsels Moist Chicken Flavor Cat Treats. The company said two other products sold under private labels also are affected: Ol' Roy Beef Flavor Jerky Strips Dog Treats and Ol' Roy Beef Flavor Snack Stick Dog Treats.
Del Monte said it was recalling the food after learning that the wheat gluten supplied to it from a Chinese plant contained melamine.
Also on Saturday, Del Monte Pet Products announced it was voluntarily recalling some of its dog and cat treats with certain date codes. The affected brands are Jerky Treats Beef Flavor Dog Snacks, Gravy Train Beef Sticks Dog Snacks and Pounce Meaty Morsels Moist Chicken Flavor Cat Treats. The company said two other products sold under private labels also are affected: Ol' Roy Beef Flavor Jerky Strips Dog Treats and Ol' Roy Beef Flavor Snack Stick Dog Treats.
Del Monte said it was recalling the food after learning that the wheat gluten supplied to it from a Chinese plant contained melamine.
Posted by Kearney
- March 30, 2007, 04:46:36 PMWASHINGTON - Federal testing of recalled pet foods turned up a chemical used to make plastics but failed to confirm the presence of a cancer drug also used as rat poison. The recall expanded Friday to include the first dry pet food.
The Food and Drug Administration said Friday it found melamine in samples of the Menu Foods pet food involved in the original recall and in imported wheat gluten used as an ingredient in the company's wet-style products. Cornell University scientists also found melamine in the urine of sick cats, as well as in the kidney of one cat that died after eating some of the recalled food.
Meanwhile, Hill's Pet Nutrition recalled its Prescription Diet m/d Feline dry cat food. The food included wheat gluten from the same supplier that Menu Foods used. The recall didn't involve any other Prescription Diet or Science Diet products, said the company, a division of Colgate-Palmolive Co.
FDA was working to rule out the possibility that the contaminated wheat gluten could have made it into any human food. However, melamine is toxic only in high doses, experts said, leaving its role in the pet deaths unclear.
Menu Foods recalled 60 million containers of cat and dog food, sold throughout North America under nearly 100 brands, earlier this month after animals died of kidney failure after eating the Canadian company's products. It is not clear how many pets may have been poisoned by the apparently contaminated food, although anecdotal reports suggest hundreds if not thousands have died. The FDA alone has received more than 8,000 complaints; the company, more than 300,000.
Company officials on Friday would not provide updated numbers of pets sickened or killed by its contaminated product. Pet owners would be compensated for veterinary bills and the deaths of any dogs and cats linked to his company's products, the company said.
The melamine finding came a week after scientists at the New York State Food Laboratory identified a cancer drug and rat poison called aminopterin as the likely culprit in the pet food. But the FDA said it could not confirm that finding, nor have researchers at the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey when they looked at tissue samples taken from dead cats. And experts at the University of Guelph detected aminopterin in some samples of the recalled pet food, but only in the parts per billion or trillion range.
"Biologically, that means nothing. It wouldn't do anything," said Grant Maxie, a veterinary pathologist at the Canadian university. "This is a puzzle."
Meanwhile, New York officials stuck to their aminopterin finding and pointed out that it was unlikely that melamine could have poisoned any of the animals thought to have died after eating the contaminated pet food. Melamine is used to make plastic kitchen ware and is used as a fertilizer in Asia.
An FDA official allowed that it wasn't immediately clear whether the melamine was the culprit. The agency's investigation continues, said Stephen F. Sundlof, director of the FDA's Center for Veterinary Medicine.
In a news conference, Sundlof and other FDA officials said the melamine had contaminated a shipment of wheat gluten imported from China and purchased by Menu Foods from an undisclosed supplier in the United States. At least some of the that wheat gluten was used in all the recalled wet pet food, according to Menu Foods.
Menu Foods said the only certainty was the imported Chinese product was the likely source of the deadly contamination, even if the actual contaminant remained in doubt.
"The important point today is that the source of the adulteration has been identified and removed from our system," said Paul Henderson, Menu Foods chief executive officer and president. Henderson suggested his company would pursue legal action against the supplier.
New York remained confident in its aminopterin finding, said Patrick Hooker, commissioner of the state Department of Agriculture and Markets. Hooker added that neither aminopterin nor melamine should be in pet food, but that it was unclear why the latter substance would be poisonous to the cats in which it was found.
"While we have no doubt that melamine is present in the recalled pet food, there is not enough known data on the mammalian toxicity levels of melamine to conclude it could cause illness and deaths in cats. With little existing data, many questions still remain as to the connection between the illnesses and what has caused them," Hooker said.
Wheat gluten, a source of vegetable protein, is also used in some human foods, but the FDA emphasized it had found no indication that the contaminated ingredient had been used in food for people. The FDA said it would alert the public quickly if the melamine was found in any foods other than the recalled pet food.
About 70 percent of the wheat gluten used in the United States for human and pet food is imported from the European Union and Asia, according to the Pet Food Institute, an industry group. Menu Foods used wheat gluten to thicken the gravy of its "cuts and gravy" style wet pet foods, FDA officials have said.
One veterinarian suggested the international sourcing of ingredients would force the U.S. "to come to grips with a reality we had not appreciated."
"When you change from getting an ingredient from the supplier down the road to a supplier from around the globe, maybe the methods and practices that were effective in one situation need to be changed," said Tony Buffington, a professor of veterinary clinical sciences at Ohio State University.
The FDA's Sundlof said the agency may change how it regulates the pet food industry.
"In this case, we're going to have to look at this after the dust settles and determine if there is something from a regulatory standpoint that we could have done differently to prevent this incident from occurring," he said.
The Food and Drug Administration said Friday it found melamine in samples of the Menu Foods pet food involved in the original recall and in imported wheat gluten used as an ingredient in the company's wet-style products. Cornell University scientists also found melamine in the urine of sick cats, as well as in the kidney of one cat that died after eating some of the recalled food.
Meanwhile, Hill's Pet Nutrition recalled its Prescription Diet m/d Feline dry cat food. The food included wheat gluten from the same supplier that Menu Foods used. The recall didn't involve any other Prescription Diet or Science Diet products, said the company, a division of Colgate-Palmolive Co.
FDA was working to rule out the possibility that the contaminated wheat gluten could have made it into any human food. However, melamine is toxic only in high doses, experts said, leaving its role in the pet deaths unclear.
Menu Foods recalled 60 million containers of cat and dog food, sold throughout North America under nearly 100 brands, earlier this month after animals died of kidney failure after eating the Canadian company's products. It is not clear how many pets may have been poisoned by the apparently contaminated food, although anecdotal reports suggest hundreds if not thousands have died. The FDA alone has received more than 8,000 complaints; the company, more than 300,000.
Company officials on Friday would not provide updated numbers of pets sickened or killed by its contaminated product. Pet owners would be compensated for veterinary bills and the deaths of any dogs and cats linked to his company's products, the company said.
The melamine finding came a week after scientists at the New York State Food Laboratory identified a cancer drug and rat poison called aminopterin as the likely culprit in the pet food. But the FDA said it could not confirm that finding, nor have researchers at the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey when they looked at tissue samples taken from dead cats. And experts at the University of Guelph detected aminopterin in some samples of the recalled pet food, but only in the parts per billion or trillion range.
"Biologically, that means nothing. It wouldn't do anything," said Grant Maxie, a veterinary pathologist at the Canadian university. "This is a puzzle."
Meanwhile, New York officials stuck to their aminopterin finding and pointed out that it was unlikely that melamine could have poisoned any of the animals thought to have died after eating the contaminated pet food. Melamine is used to make plastic kitchen ware and is used as a fertilizer in Asia.
An FDA official allowed that it wasn't immediately clear whether the melamine was the culprit. The agency's investigation continues, said Stephen F. Sundlof, director of the FDA's Center for Veterinary Medicine.
In a news conference, Sundlof and other FDA officials said the melamine had contaminated a shipment of wheat gluten imported from China and purchased by Menu Foods from an undisclosed supplier in the United States. At least some of the that wheat gluten was used in all the recalled wet pet food, according to Menu Foods.
Menu Foods said the only certainty was the imported Chinese product was the likely source of the deadly contamination, even if the actual contaminant remained in doubt.
"The important point today is that the source of the adulteration has been identified and removed from our system," said Paul Henderson, Menu Foods chief executive officer and president. Henderson suggested his company would pursue legal action against the supplier.
New York remained confident in its aminopterin finding, said Patrick Hooker, commissioner of the state Department of Agriculture and Markets. Hooker added that neither aminopterin nor melamine should be in pet food, but that it was unclear why the latter substance would be poisonous to the cats in which it was found.
"While we have no doubt that melamine is present in the recalled pet food, there is not enough known data on the mammalian toxicity levels of melamine to conclude it could cause illness and deaths in cats. With little existing data, many questions still remain as to the connection between the illnesses and what has caused them," Hooker said.
Wheat gluten, a source of vegetable protein, is also used in some human foods, but the FDA emphasized it had found no indication that the contaminated ingredient had been used in food for people. The FDA said it would alert the public quickly if the melamine was found in any foods other than the recalled pet food.
About 70 percent of the wheat gluten used in the United States for human and pet food is imported from the European Union and Asia, according to the Pet Food Institute, an industry group. Menu Foods used wheat gluten to thicken the gravy of its "cuts and gravy" style wet pet foods, FDA officials have said.
One veterinarian suggested the international sourcing of ingredients would force the U.S. "to come to grips with a reality we had not appreciated."
"When you change from getting an ingredient from the supplier down the road to a supplier from around the globe, maybe the methods and practices that were effective in one situation need to be changed," said Tony Buffington, a professor of veterinary clinical sciences at Ohio State University.
The FDA's Sundlof said the agency may change how it regulates the pet food industry.
"In this case, we're going to have to look at this after the dust settles and determine if there is something from a regulatory standpoint that we could have done differently to prevent this incident from occurring," he said.
Posted by Homer
- March 24, 2007, 06:49:04 AMQuote from: scorpio on March 23, 2007, 10:09:12 PM
You know it is so sad what is happening to these pets. I believe I am a fortunate owner. A few months ago, I woke up and had seen that one of my cats was very sick for they left me about 10 piles of stomach contents to clean. Being that I have 2 cats I had to wait for it to happen again to know which one was doing it. It was my black male cat (Midnight). I took him to the vet and they couldn't figure what was wrong, put him on antibiotics and told me if it doesnt stop to bring him back. The very next day we was back for everything continued, and now he wasn't eating, drinking, nor using the litter box. The vet decided to do surgery to make sure he didnt have an obstruction. After 2 hours he called me and told me he found nothing. Midnight had to stay at the vets for 5 days to recover from surgery but also to keep him on iv fluids since he wouldnt eat. When the first recall came out I didn't think anything about it, but then they moved the food dates back even further and puts my cats in that time frame. Thankfully everything turned out just fine for me and my babies, and Midnight is back to his ole playful self, but it disgusts me that there are so many other people that weren't as fortunate as me, and these poor pets are suffering a great deal.
Sounds like you are one of the lucky ones. :;"
Posted by minniewinnie
- March 23, 2007, 10:19:04 PMQuote from: scorpio on March 23, 2007, 10:09:12 PM
You know it is so sad what is happening to these pets. I believe I am a fortunate owner. A few months ago, I woke up and had seen that one of my cats was very sick for they left me about 10 piles of stomach contents to clean. Being that I have 2 cats I had to wait for it to happen again to know which one was doing it. It was my black male cat (Midnight). I took him to the vet and they couldn't figure what was wrong, put him on antibiotics and told me if it doesnt stop to bring him back. The very next day we was back for everything continued, and now he wasn't eating, drinking, nor using the litter box. The vet decided to do surgery to make sure he didnt have an obstruction. After 2 hours he called me and told me he found nothing. Midnight had to stay at the vets for 5 days to recover from surgery but also to keep him on iv fluids since he wouldnt eat. When the first recall came out I didn't think anything about it, but then they moved the food dates back even further and puts my cats in that time frame. Thankfully everything turned out just fine for me and my babies, and Midnight is back to his ole playful self, but it disgusts me that there are so many other people that weren't as fortunate as me, and these poor pets are suffering a great deal.
I'm glad everything turned out fine for you and "midnight". We love our pets as if they are a family member. He's lucky to have such a caring owner. :;'
Posted by scorpio
- March 23, 2007, 10:09:12 PM You know it is so sad what is happening to these pets. I believe I am a fortunate owner. A few months ago, I woke up and had seen that one of my cats was very sick for they left me about 10 piles of stomach contents to clean. Being that I have 2 cats I had to wait for it to happen again to know which one was doing it. It was my black male cat (Midnight). I took him to the vet and they couldn't figure what was wrong, put him on antibiotics and told me if it doesnt stop to bring him back. The very next day we was back for everything continued, and now he wasn't eating, drinking, nor using the litter box. The vet decided to do surgery to make sure he didnt have an obstruction. After 2 hours he called me and told me he found nothing. Midnight had to stay at the vets for 5 days to recover from surgery but also to keep him on iv fluids since he wouldnt eat. When the first recall came out I didn't think anything about it, but then they moved the food dates back even further and puts my cats in that time frame. Thankfully everything turned out just fine for me and my babies, and Midnight is back to his ole playful self, but it disgusts me that there are so many other people that weren't as fortunate as me, and these poor pets are suffering a great deal.
Posted by minniewinnie
- March 23, 2007, 09:52:00 PMQuote from: Ms.Behavin on March 23, 2007, 09:44:21 PM
Well they are saying now, that some of the food came from Asia. And that over there they use rat posion to spray crops because of the rat infestation. I think they are looking for a way out of all the law suits.
Rat poison to spray crops? Have they lost their minds?? OMG it doesn't take Einstein to figure that one out! Is it William Hungs relation doing the spraying? lol
Posted by Ms.Behavin
- March 23, 2007, 09:44:21 PMWell they are saying now, that some of the food came from Asia. And that over there they use rat posion to spray crops because of the rat infestation. I think they are looking for a way out of all the law suits.
Posted by minniewinnie
- March 23, 2007, 09:19:34 PMQuote from: Homer on March 23, 2007, 06:46:24 PM
That's terrible about the poisoning.
The person responsible should be forced to eat the food they contaminated. ;:"
I agree and maybe they should have to use some type of chemical to help wash it down!
Posted by Homer
- March 23, 2007, 06:46:24 PMThat's terrible about the poisoning.
The person responsible should be forced to eat the food they contaminated. ;:"
The person responsible should be forced to eat the food they contaminated. ;:"