Pet food racall, Please read.

Macfanforever · #1 03-16-2007, 04:36 PM

Peanut butter, Now pet food recall.What in the hell is wrong with the QC dept
at these companys lately.

From Yahoo News

Pet food maker announces major recall

By ANDREW BRIDGES, Associated Press Writer 1 hour, 16 minutes ago

WASHINGTON - A major manufacturer of dog and cat food sold under Wal-Mart, Safeway, Kroger and other store brands recalled 60 million containers of wet pet food Friday after reports of kidney failure and deaths.

An unknown number of cats and dogs suffered kidney failure and about 10 died after eating the affected pet food, Menu Foods said in announcing the North American recall. Product testing has not revealed a link explaining the reported cases of illness and death, the company said.

"At this juncture, we're not 100 percent sure what's happened," said Paul Henderson, the company's president and chief executive officer.

The recall covers the company's "cuts and gravy" style food, which consists of chunks of meat in gravy, sold in cans and small foil pouches between Dec. 3 and March 6. The pet food was sold by stores operated by the Kroger Company, Safeway Inc., Wal-Mart Stores Inc. and PetSmart Inc., among others, Henderson said.

Menu Foods did not immediately provide a full list of brand names and lot numbers covered by the recall, saying they would be posted on its Web site — http://www.menufoods.com/recall — early Saturday. Consumers with questions can call (800) 551-7392.

The company said it manufacturers for 17 of the top 20 North American retailers. It is also a contract manufacturer for the top branded pet food companies. Its three U.S. and one Canadian factory produce more than 1 billion containers of wet pet food a year. The recall covers pet food made at company plants in Emporia, Kan., and Pennsauken, N.J., Henderson said.

Henderson said the company received an undisclosed number of owner complaints of vomiting and kidney failure in dogs and cats after they had been fed its products. It has tested its products but not found a cause for the sickness.

"To date, the tests have not indicated any problems with the product," Henderson said.

The company alerted the
Food and Drug Administration, which already has inspectors in one of the two plants, Henderson said. The FDA was working to nail down brand names covered by the recall, agency spokesman Mike Herndon said.

Menu Foods is majority owned by the Menu Foods Income Fund, based in Ontario, Canada.

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On the Net:

Food and Drug Administration: http://www.fda.gov/

gretchen · #2 03-16-2007, 04:39 PM

Oh no, how sad, those poor doggies and kitties!

Thank you for posting this info!

carrie721 · #3 03-16-2007, 04:39 PM

goddamn canadians.

goldustsongbird · #4 03-16-2007, 04:41 PM

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Originally Posted by carrie721

goddamn canadians.

Fûck off.

carrie721 · #5 03-16-2007, 04:42 PM

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Originally Posted by goldustsongbird

Fûck off.

stop killing people's pets

michelle2677 · #6 03-16-2007, 04:43 PM

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Originally Posted by carrie721

stop killing people's pets

oh dear god. that was cold. coooooold.

bikerchic · #7 03-16-2007, 04:45 PM

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Originally Posted by carrie721

goddamn canadians.

The recall covers pet food made at company plants in Emporia, Kan., and Pennsauken, N.J., Henderson said.

Uh

carrie721 · #8 03-16-2007, 04:46 PM

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Originally Posted by bikerchic

The recall covers pet food made at company plants in Emporia, Kan., and Pennsauken, N.J., Henderson said.

Uh

Menu Foods is majority owned by the Menu Foods Income Fund, based in Ontario, Canada.

killers!

goldustsongbird · #9 03-16-2007, 04:47 PM

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Originally Posted by carrie721

stop killing people's pets

Please see sig as my comeback, kthx.

bikerchic · #10 03-16-2007, 04:50 PM

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Originally Posted by carrie721

Menu Foods is majority owned by the Menu Foods Income Fund, based in Ontario, Canada.

killers!

But the food was made and distributed at those two U.S. plants. There's been no Canadian recall

estranged4life · #11 03-16-2007, 04:51 PM

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Originally Posted by Macfanforever

WASHINGTON - A major manufacturer of dog and cat food sold under Wal-Mart, Safeway, Kroger and other store brands recalled 60 million containers of wet pet food Friday after reports of kidney failure and deaths.

An unknown number of cats and dogs suffered kidney failure and about 10 died after eating the affected pet food, Menu Foods said in announcing the North American recall.

The recall covers the company's "cuts and gravy" style food, which consists of chunks of meat in gravy, sold in cans and small foil pouches between Dec. 3 and March 6.

Henderson said the company received an undisclosed number of owner complaints of vomiting and kidney failure in dogs and cats after they had been fed its products. It has tested its products but not found a cause for the sickness.

The company alerted the
Food and Drug Administration, which already has inspectors in one of the two plants, Henderson said. The FDA was working to nail down brand names covered by the recall, agency spokesman Mike Herndon said.

We lost 3 cats (Run-Nugget, Token & Gilligan - But Gilligan's very recent death stemed from the paralysis which injured his kidneys), the past year from a mysterious kidney failure, and some of the food that Deb & myself used to feed our 'moron brigade' was the "cuts and gravy" style food sold in cans and small foil pouches that we purchased at Wal-Mart.

Our vet was at a lost because he also noticed that our healthy cats were becoming very quickly ill. He advised us to change their litter boxes and food/water dishes out, change the brand of food and keep watch to see if anything else came up. Since we changed the moist can food to 9 Lives (Our cats are fed "Friskies" dry in the morning and moist/can food in the evening) none of our remaining cats have become ill.

I will be awaiting to see what the brand names of the cat-food in question.

Btw, I was a QC person (ASNT Level 2/3) - sometimes there's things even us inspectors arent made aware of - so I wouldnt necessarily blame bad QC just yet.