ALL POSTS RE: PET FOOD RECALLS GO HERE IN THIS THREAD

[Auntie Debbie]

AVMA's list of recalled foods

http://www.avma.org/aa/menufoodsrecall/products.asp

[anneryan]

ANOTHER RECALL>>>>

If any of you feed Natural Balance Venison and Brown Rice (dry dog food) or Natural Balance Venison and Pea (dry cat food), the Natural Balance company has recalled those two foods.

Please see their website www.naturalbalanceinc.com for more details on this recall.

Hope everyone is OK.

Anne

Additional info:
Melamine found in the rice in Natural Balance
Posted: 17 Apr 2007 02:49 pm by Auntie Debbie

Now we gotta watch out for rice

http://www.usatoday.com/money/industrie ... lled_N.htm
(Recalled Natural Balance products include Venison and Brown Rice canned and dry dog foods, dog treats and Venison and Green Pea dry cat food.)

[admin]

Posted: 18 Apr 2007 06:31 am by Auntie Debbie

Recalled Natural Life canned dog food
http://www.menufoods.com/recall/Press%2 ... 172007.htm

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Posted: 18 Apr 2007 06:31 am by Auntie Debbie

(this is NOT part of the original pet food recall, it is a seperate recall, as it involves salmonella) :

T.W. Enterprises Issues Nationwide Recall of Dog Chews Due to Salmonella Contamination
http://www.fda.gov/oc/po/firmrecalls/tw ... 04_07.html

[admin]

An earlier post moved here:

Posted: 10 Apr 2007 01:11 pm by Auntie Debbie

Snopes on Beneful Dog Food
http://www.snopes.com/critters/crusader/beneful.asp

[Auntie Debbie]

Melamine is now in the corn gluten in South Africa. Affected products are Vets Choice and Royal Canin

http://www.news24.com/News24/South_Afri ... 93,00.html

[Marty]

This is getting to be a never-ending story...sigh. I "think" I'm still safe with Blue Buffalo (not the lite).

[Tambrey]

so will the Blue buffalo be next?

[slvrwhispr]

Yup. Check the recall thread in the cat forum.

http://www.bluebuff.com/

Dear Pet Parents:

The Blue Buffalo Company has undertaken a voluntary recall on one production run of our Spa Select Kitten dry food. The production code on the recalled product is:

"Best Used By Mar. 07 08 B."

We have taken this action because the rice protein concentrate used for this one production run was obtained from Wilbur-Ellis, the same company who supplied this ingredient to Natural Balance. Test results received late last evening (4/18) indicated that this rice protein concentrate tested positive for melamine. This is the first and only time our manufacturing partner sourced an ingredient from Wilbur-Ellis, and we had no knowledge that they had imported the ingredients from China.

We have advised the FDA of this finding and will be working closely with them on this issue.

Of the 4,752 bags produced in this one run, we were able to prevent the majority from ever entering retail distribution. We are working closely with our retail partners to remove this product immediately and will be re-stocking the shelves with Spa Select Kitten dry food that was produced without any rice protein sourced from Wilbur-Ellis as soon as possible.

If you currently have a bag of Spa Select Kitten dry food, please check the code date and if it matches the one shown above discontinue use immediately and return it to the place of purchase for a full refund. If your cat has eaten any of the recalled food, please call your veterinarian immediately to discuss if there are any risks to your pet.

Should you have a specific question call our Customer Service Department at 1-800-919-2833 or email us at info@bluebuff.com. We understand your desire for immediate answers and we will be working to get back to you as quickly as we can.

No other Spa Select cat food or dog food, canned or dry, is included in this recall.

As a family owned company whose reason for being is to provide cats and dogs with the highest quality natural foods, we are extremely upset by this recall and can't begin to apologize enough to our customers. From our perspective, it is unacceptable to produce even one bag of food with the potential to cause a pet to become ill, and we will further tighten our ingredient sourcing and quality assurance procedures as a result of this incident.

Sincerely,

Bill Bishop
President
The Blue Buffalo Company

[Auntie Debbie]

Royal Canin has pulled a number of their products due to having the rice protein concentrate purchased by Wilbur-Ellis. They've known about this potential for days now and only now has owned up to it. There are still 2 more unidentified companies that needs to come forward on this.

http://www.royalcanin.us/

[Traci]

They've known about this potential for days now and only now has owned up to it.

Unless you have sufficient evidence for this, Debbie, No, they have not.