Dog and Cat food recall

Man with the Golden Arm · April 17, 2007

OK, this shit is getting seriously old - now natural balance is recalling the food that I finally just got my cat to start eating!!!

http://www.cnn.com/2007/US/04/17/pet.food....l.ap/index.html

i clicked thru to the site and find that only the venison food is recalled ... time to pass the buck.

Dave Garrett · April 17, 2007

It's melamine contamination again, this time in "rice protein" (rice gluten) as opposed to the wheat gluten responsible for the earlier Menu Foods recall:

Itchmo on NB recall

We'd recently switched our GSD to Natural Balance Chicken & Rice from Nutro Ultra after the earlier recall, and have been alternating that with home cooking. The NB Chicken & Rice does not appear to be involved in this new recall, but after everything that's happened, I'm not at all confident that the full scope of the problem is completely known yet.

Chuck Nessa · April 17, 2007

My dog died about 5 years ago. Can I sue someone? :cool:

J Larsen · April 18, 2007

It's melamine contamination again, this time in "rice protein" (rice gluten) as opposed to the wheat gluten responsible for the earlier Menu Foods recall:

Itchmo on NB recall

We'd recently switched our GSD to Natural Balance Chicken & Rice from Nutro Ultra after the earlier recall, and have been alternating that with home cooking. The NB Chicken & Rice does not appear to be involved in this new recall, but after everything that's happened, I'm not at all confident that the full scope of the problem is completely known yet.

That's my concern to - I've been completely eliminating all products from any company that has recalled any items at all - but I'm just about out of options at this point.

A friend started feeding his cat baby food for the time being - I might see what my vet says about that.

Dave Garrett · April 18, 2007

It's melamine contamination again, this time in "rice protein" (rice gluten) as opposed to the wheat gluten responsible for the earlier Menu Foods recall:

Itchmo on NB recall

We'd recently switched our GSD to Natural Balance Chicken & Rice from Nutro Ultra after the earlier recall, and have been alternating that with home cooking. The NB Chicken & Rice does not appear to be involved in this new recall, but after everything that's happened, I'm not at all confident that the full scope of the problem is completely known yet.

That's my concern to - I've been completely eliminating all products from any company that has recalled any items at all - but I'm just about out of options at this point.

A friend started feeding his cat baby food for the time being - I might see what my vet says about that.

You might want to check this out:

The Pet Food List

Based on recommendations I've been reading on various websites and blogs, I'm thinking of trying one or both of these:

Kumpi

Canidae

Both companies offer cat food as well as dog food. The owner of Kumpi has been posting regularly in the recall threads at Itchmo, and seems like a very knowledgeable person with considerable experience and integrity.

catesta · April 18, 2007

Changing foods is very difficult.

While the Iams dry I feed my dog is not on any of the lists and my vet assures me it is fine. My dog did have elevated potassium levels when they did a blood test a couple of weeks ago. She was retested Friday and checked out fine.

Anyways, I thought I would try something else. My sister recommended this stuff, but my dog didn't take to it. On top of all that they are now included in the recall with the their venison foods.

Fuck it, I'm cooking the shit myself.

(BB) · April 18, 2007

Changing foods is very difficult.

While the Iams dry I feed my dog is not on any of the lists and my vet assures me it is fine. My dog did have elevated potassium levels when they did a blood test a couple of weeks ago. She was retested Friday and checked out fine.
Anyways, I thought I would try something else. My sister recommended this stuff, but my dog didn't take to it. On top of all that they are now included in the recall with the their venison foods.

Fuck it, I'm cooking the shit myself.

Our dog has always had sensitive stomach. A scrub brush and dishwashing compound in hot water is good for cleaning carpet. Whenever we switched foods we would start with a 75/25 mix of old/new food and then slowly change it till it was all the new stuff. This seems to help with the transition.

Brownian Motion · May 2, 2007

Millions Of Chickens Fed Tainted Pet Food

Risk to Consumers Minimal, FDA Says

By Rick Weiss

Washington Post Staff Writer

Wednesday, May 2, 2007; A01

At least 2.5 million broiler chickens from an Indiana producer were fed pet food scraps contaminated with the chemical melamine and subsequently sold for human consumption, federal health officials reported yesterday.

Hundreds of other producers may have similarly sold an unknown amount of contaminated poultry in recent months, they added, painting a picture of much broader consumption of contaminated feed and food than had previously been acknowledged in the widening pet food scandal.

Officials emphasized that they do not believe the tainted chickens -- or the smaller number of contaminated pigs that were reported to have entered the human food supply -- pose risks to people who ate them.

"We do not believe there is any significant threat of human illness from this," said David Acheson, the Food and Drug Administration's chief medical officer. FDA Commissioner Andrew von Eschenbach named Acheson yesterday the agency's new "food czar" -- officially, assistant commissioner for food protection.

None of the farm animals is known to have become sick from the food, and very little of the contaminant is suspected of having accumulated in their tissue. Thus, no recall of any products that may still be on store shelves or in people's freezers is planned, officials said.

Nonetheless, 100,000 Indiana chickens that ate the melamine-laced food and are still alive have been quarantined and will be destroyed as a precautionary measure -- as will any other animals that turn up as the investigation continues to expand.

The revelations are the latest in a rapidly widening scandal that started out with reports of a few deaths of pets. It has mushroomed into a major debacle that, even if no human injuries emerge, has exposed significant gaps in the nation's food-safety system.

In the first volley of what Hill watchers expect to be a series of proposed fixes, Sen. Richard J. Durbin (D-Ill.) and Rep. Rosa DeLauro (D-Conn.) yesterday introduced legislation that would give the FDA the power to order mandatory recalls of adulterated foods, establish an early warning and notification system for tainted human or pet food, and allow fines for companies that do not promptly report contaminated products.

Meanwhile, the FDA expanded the number of plant-based protein products from China on its "do not import" list, pending the completion of further tests on various kinds of glutens, protein concentrates and other products.

At the center of the problem are pet foods spiked with melamine, a mildly toxic chemical that can make food appear to have more protein than it does. Most of the food went to pets, but scraps were sold in February to the Indiana poultry producer, officials said. The contaminated material may have made up about 5 percent of the chickens' total food supply.

That small fraction, and the fact that people, unlike pets, do not eat the same thing day after day, suggests that consumers who ate contaminated pork or chicken would probably have ingested extremely small doses of melamine, well below the threshold for causing health effects, officials said. Experts conceded, however, that they know little about how the toxin interacts with other compounds in food.

Investigators are tracking streams of the contaminated food through several states.

"Our sense is that the investigation will lead to additional farms where contaminated feed may have been fed to either animals or poultry," said Kenneth Petersen of the Agriculture Department Food Safety and Inspection Service.

Officials said the FDA has received 17,000 reports of pets that owners believe were sickened or killed by contaminated food. About 8,000 reports, roughly half of them involving animals that died, have been formally entered into the FDA's tracking system for further analysis.

U.S. investigators have arrived in China, officials said, but inspections of production facilities there have been hampered by the start yesterday of a week-long national vacation.

"Essentially, all the officials are on holiday," said Walter Batts, part of the FDA's China team, adding that one Chinese official had stayed behind to help.

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