Contaminated Cat Food Recalled by Maker

Mar 30, 6:14 PM (ET)

By ANDREW BRIDGES

WASHINGTON (AP) - 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. (CL)
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Unfortunately, the price you pay or getting the food from a vet has little effect on its safety as the Hills DRY Prescription--one of them at least so far--has just been added to the list being recalled as contaminated.

I feed the raw BARF diet which can be found on the internet 2 to 3 times a week for mine and also cook meat for human consumption for them as well with rice in slow cooker. Mine get a big variety of food and do well on it so far.

After my own experience with pet food recall last year, I have been extra cautious.

I am getting uneasy with this starting to recall the dry foods now as I always leave kibbles available for mine.

Is this some sort of cover up or what is going on that the FDA now says plastic but no rat poison? How are vets supposed to know how to treat the sick ones. I wonder how many have been effected by this so far.

Does anyone know where there is a total being kept?

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I am on emailing mailing lists of some pet foods

This one is from Update on Mighty Dog Pouch WithdrawalDate: Sun, 25 Mar 2007 06:29:08 EDT
From: Purina Petcentric <purinapetcare@updates.purina.com>
Subject: Update on Mighty Dog Pouch Withdrawal
An Update from Nestle Purina PetCare Company About the Menu
Foods Recall - March 23, 2007

We at Nestle Purina PetCare Company know the reports of pet food
recalls and withdrawals over the past week have been very
concerning and at times confusing for pet owners, who want to
ensure the safety of the food they are feeding their beloved pets.

We want to take this opportunity to reassure you that Mighty Dog
pouch products are the ONLY Purina(r) brand products affected by
Menu Foods' recall. Nestle Purina stands behind the high-quality
of our pet foods, and all Purina brand cat food products and all
other Purina brand dog food products, including Mighty Dog
canned products, can continue to be fed to your pets with
complete confidence.

On Friday, March 16, Nestle Purina PetCare issued its press
release announcing the voluntary withdrawal of our Mighty Dog(r)
brand pouch-packaged products that were produced by Menu Foods
from Dec. 3, 2006, through March 14, 2007. While we had no
indication of any product quality or safety issues specifically
related to our Mighty Dog pouch products at that time, we are
proactively withdrawing these products as a precautionary
measure, because the well-being of pets and the safety and
efficacy of our products are our top priorities.

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Here's an email I recd from IAMS

P&G Pet Care Update 3/30/2007

March 30, 2007

Dear Consumer:

As promised, we are continuing to keep you updated on the Menu Foods recall.

We know the Menu Foods recall has caused concern, frustration and anger among many pet lovers, including many of our own employees and their families. We want you to know that we care deeply, and we continue to take action on your behalf.

We want to comment on the new announcement today (Friday, March 30, 2007) by the U.S. Food & Drug Administration (FDA) that they have found a substance called melamine in the wheat gluten of recalled products, and not the aminopterin, as earlier suspected by the New York Foods Laboratory.

We can reassure you:

First, there is no melamine or aminopterin in any of our Iams and Eukanuba dry pet foods on store shelves.

In fact, Iams and Eukanuba dry pet foods to DO NOT contain wheat gluten. Our dry dog and cat foods are made exclusively by P&G Pet Care and not by Menu Foods.

Pet owners can feel safe and confident in feeding all Iams and Eukanuba dry foods, as well as any wet foods that are not on the Menu Foods recall list. Click here to see the specific list of recalled wet pouch and canned products.
We want to review the key actions we’ve taken:

* We immediately worked with retailers to remove from store shelves the small number of our wet pouch and canned products affected by the Menu Foods recall.

* We immediately suspended production of all our foods manufactured at the affected Menu Foods Emporia, Kansas plant.

* We have shared all of our data and continue to cooperate fully with FDA, which is leading this important investigation.

* A task force of prominent North American veterinary health care experts, convened by Iams to review the recall, recently agreed: “Veterinarians and pet owners should feel safe recommending and feeding Iams and Eukanuba dry foods.”

We want to stress again that you can confidently feed all of your pets any of our dry foods, as well as the wet foods not affected by the Menu Foods recall. If you have any questions about the recalled products, please click here to see the specific list of recalled wet pouch and canned products.

P&G Pet Care is deeply committed to pet well-being and our top priority is to help you care for your dog and cat family members. We will continue to provide you with meaningful updates. If you have additional questions, not answered on our Web site FAQs, please call us at 1-800-882-1591.

P&G Pet Care

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Thank you Anna about the dry food info

I heard it from you two hours before it was on the Headline News Network!

Monkeys are great!!

Is the "Barf" diet for real :lol: or just how I feel, along with intense anger with myself for not doing more to protest for and support "Buy American", anger with my government and all their (blank) imports.

My girlfriend buys a lot at COSTCO. We were talking about their soybeans last year and I kind of remember they were imported from China... maybe not.

I'd now, gladly pay shipping charges from an American farmer who would manufacture dog and cat food who could assure to me, confidence in every step of the process for the food