IMPORTANT! Dog Food Recall

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#1
Menu expanded recall to include Canadian produced foods. It just goes on
and on!

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>Pet Food Recall Expands to Include Some Canadian-Made Varieties
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>04-10-2007 5:24 PM
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>WASHINGTON (Associated Press) -- The pet food recall expanded further
>Tuesday to include products made at a Canadian factory recently found to
>have used an ingredient tainted by an industrial chemical.
>
>Menu Foods previously had recalled only cat and dog food made at its
>plants in New Jersey and Kansas, saying they were its only facilities to
>have taken delivery of imported wheat gluten later found contaminated with
>melamine.
>
>However, Menu Foods discovered Monday that some of the tainted wheat
>gluten had made it to Canada. It was prompted to account for the
>ingredient by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, which told the
>company that tests had detected the chemical in pet foods made at its
>Streetsville, Ontario, plant.
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>Menu spokesman Sam Bornstein said the amount accounted for just 1 percent
>of the adulterated Chinese wheat gluten purchased by Menu Foods. It was
>used in pet foods made in December and January.
>
>Among the products covered by the expanded recall is Royal Canin Canada's
>Medi-Cal Feline Dissolution Formula canned diet, made by Menu Foods and
>sold only through veterinarians. A single production lot contained the
>contaminated wheat gluten, the company said.
>
>"After being repeatedly reassured by Menu Foods, as reinforced by FDA
>public statements, that none of the contaminated wheat gluten had made its
>way to Canada, we were completely shocked to learn yesterday that this was
>not the case," Xavier Unkovic, Royal Canin Canada's chief executive
>officer, said in a statement.
>
>Menu Foods was the first of at least six companies to recall pet food and
>treats made with the tainted Chinese wheat gluten. It alone has recalled
>100 brands of pet foods, sold throughout North America under its private
>and major labels. It posted Tuesday an updated list of recalled products
>on its Web site, <http://menufoods.com/recall/>http://menufoods.com/recall/.
>
>The FDA has blocked wheat gluten imports from a Chinese company while it
>investigates how melamine could have contaminated the vegetable protein.
>
>This week, a large veterinary hospital chain says it recorded a 30 percent
>increase in kidney failure among cats during the three months that pet
>food contaminated with melamine was sold.
>
>Those results were reported Monday by Banfield, The Pet Hospital, based
>upon an analysis of records collected by its more than 615 veterinary clinics.
>
>The analysis suggests that out of every 10,000 cats and dogs seen in
>Banfield clinics, three developed kidney failure during the time pet food
>contaminated with melamine, a chemical used to make plastic kitchenware,
>countertops, fertilizers and flame retardants, was on the market. The
>chemical appears to have been more toxic to cats than to dogs.

#2
Subject: Canadian pet food added to recall list


Updated 3h 7m ago

By Elizabeth Weise and Julie Schmit, USA TODAY

The pet-food recall expanded again Tuesday after Menu Foods discovered it
shipped possibly contaminated wheat gluten from its Kansas plant to one in
Canada.

Twelve brands of cat food were affected, just five days after Food and Drug
Administration officials said they thought the recall, one of the biggest in
pet-food history, wouldn't get larger.

Menu's new recall covers cans of cat food made in December or January and sold
in the USA and Canada under brands including Nutro Products, Pet Pride and Your
Pet. Separately, Royal Canin Canada recalled Medi-Cal Feline Dissolution
Formula canned diet, sold only in Canada by veterinarians, because Menu's
Ontario plant produced it for Royal.

After Menu's announcement, Nutro ordered all of its pouched and canned wet food
made with wheat gluten off store shelves.

"Pet owners are fed up with confusing information regarding the Menu Foods
recall," said Dave Kravis, Nutro CEO, in a statement.

Tuesday's developments are more bad news for Menu, an Ontario company that
makes wet pet food under dozens of store brand labels and for other pet-food
makers. Menu has extended its recall twice since it recalled more than 60
million cans and pouches of cat and dog food on March 16.

Continued at http://www.usatoday.com/money/indust...4-10-pet-food-
canada-factory_N.htm?csp=34

#3
The FDA order applies not only to gluten from China, but also from the
Netherlands, because some of the Chinese gluten gets shipped through the
Netherlands. And it is not just restricted to pet food products; all wheat
gluten from that manufacturer is now blocked from entering the United States.
However, the FDA stresses that so far, they have found no evidence of
contamination of human food.

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