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PET FOOD MELTDOWN - Menu Foods Expands Recall — Yet Again!
Itchmo Pet Blog ^ | Tuesday April 10, 2007 | Milwaukee_Guy

Posted on 04/10/2007 5:56:49 PM PDT by Milwaukee_Guy

The revised recall includes cat food brands from Nutro, Publix, America’s Choice, Pet Pride, Winn Dixie and more.

What was that FDA? We’re done with the recalls? We can’t wait to hear what you have to say at the Senate hearing.

Menu Foods voluntarily recalls additional pet food made with ChemNutra wheat gluten

TORONTO, April 10 /PRNewswire/ - Prompted by reports from the US Food and Drug Administration as to the presence of melamine in cans of cuts and gravy pet food produced in Menu Foods’ Canadian production facility, Menu Foods undertook an accounting of all recalled wheat gluten supplied by ChemNutra Inc. to Menu Foods in the United States. As the result of that review, Menu Foods has identified a single interplant transfer of the ChemNutra supplied wheat gluten, shipped from Menu Foods’ plant in Emporia, Kansas, to its plant in Streetsville, Ontario. This wheat gluten was subsequently used in the production of pet food in December, 2006 and January, 2007, which is being recalled by Menu Foods.

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TOPICS: Pets/Animals
KEYWORDS: cats; china; chinese; chinesewheatgluten; doggieping; menufoods; petfood; recall
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To: Scott from the Left Coast

I consider this a form of terrorism.


41 posted on 04/10/2007 8:03:46 PM PDT by television is just wrong
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To: Milwaukee_Guy
Pet food insider sold shares before recall: CFO calls sale a 'horrible coincidence'
42 posted on 04/10/2007 8:29:09 PM PDT by kanawa (Don't go where you're looking, look where you're going.)
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To: mom4kittys

Interesting.... actually I’ve cut way back on vitamins for my dogs, starting to trust the healthier grown food is more balanced, but in the case of sick kitty I would probably continue the vitamins you were supplementing with.... I’m thrilled your kitties are liking the healthier food! happy dance!


43 posted on 04/10/2007 9:02:52 PM PDT by Arizona Carolyn
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To: Biggirl

I already do .. piece of cake really they just want you to think it’s hard.... vets only get two weeks training in nutrition from the vets hired by Hills and Purina to go out and spread the word — feed all your clients Science Diet...


44 posted on 04/10/2007 9:04:48 PM PDT by Arizona Carolyn
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To: Arizona Carolyn

Have you read their FAQ? I just want to make sure they are getting what they need because I think mine needed extra probably due to absorbtion, So, you think It will be alright just with what I am giving now in vitamins?


45 posted on 04/10/2007 9:09:54 PM PDT by mom4kittys (If velvet could sing, it would sound like Josh Groban)
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To: mom4kittys
There is some extra's listed in their ingredients on their site -- did you get their food fortifier? They have it for extra fortification of the diet. What they explain in the FAQ;s is they are not using synthetic vitamins and minerals, instead they added natural things like Brewers yeast to the food for things like B complex.. I think this is a well thought out food from what I can see.

Ingredients: Chicken, Chicken Broth, Chicken Liver, Egg Product, Animal Plasma, Flaxseeds, Montmorillonite, Cottage Cheese, Brewers Yeast, Cod Liver Oil, Egg Shell, Apple, Suncured Alfalfa Meal, Tomato Powder, Parsley, Blueberry, Cranberry, Apricots, Spinach, Artichoke, Broccoli, Carrots, Pumpkin, Kelp, Chicory Root, Rosemary.

46 posted on 04/10/2007 9:42:56 PM PDT by Arizona Carolyn
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To: Milwaukee_Guy

So much for “the wet food’s OK”.

So glad I had to transition my fuzzy away from Nutro because of allergies a year ago.


47 posted on 04/10/2007 11:19:05 PM PDT by Spktyr (Overwhelmingly superior firepower and the willingness to use it is the only proven peace solution.)
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To: HairOfTheDog

No, the Nutro stuff is most emphatically not the “canned with gravy” food.

I am definitely not liking where this is going.


48 posted on 04/10/2007 11:23:05 PM PDT by Spktyr (Overwhelmingly superior firepower and the willingness to use it is the only proven peace solution.)
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To: Milwaukee_Guy; HairOfTheDog
Several years ago, a friend pointed me to the following article on pet foods. After reading it, I immediately switched the pets to a better food product and the results have been astounding. I urge everyone to read and pass this article on to others.


Potential Contaminants

Given the types of things manufacturers put in pet food, it is not surprising that bad things sometimes happen. Ingredients used in pet food are often highly contaminated with a wide variety of toxic substances. Some of these are destroyed by processing, but others are not.

WhatÂ’s Really in Pet Food

49 posted on 04/11/2007 1:05:34 AM PDT by NYer ("Where the bishop is present, there is the Catholic Church" - Ignatius of Antioch)
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To: NYer
Another Contaminant?? - Chinese criticized in pet food probe (Pet Food Recall)
50 posted on 04/11/2007 3:52:49 AM PDT by mewzilla (Property must be secured or liberty cannot exist. John Adams)
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To: mewzilla

Thanx for that link. I’ve been hesitant to believe that melamine is the culprit...under the impression that labs can find only what they test for. If that’s true, it could be a very long time (or never) before the substance is identified with any degree of comfortable assurance.


51 posted on 04/11/2007 5:56:00 AM PDT by elli1
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To: mom4kittys

I just hesitant to give him anything not made by Bil Jac at this point. Not even the snacks he’s used to getting. It seems like it’s something new with these companies using imported products every time we turn around.


52 posted on 04/11/2007 6:00:07 AM PDT by Sue Perkick (...what I was born to do, don't have to think it through.....)
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To: Arizona Carolyn

Do you mean the sardine oil? I just remember that another freeper on another thread was worried about the lack of a certian vitamin—I can’t remember what it was. Does anything stick out to you?


53 posted on 04/11/2007 6:35:51 AM PDT by mom4kittys (If velvet could sing, it would sound like Josh Groban)
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To: kanawa

I heard about this this morning. If it’s tied in, this is a bad thing.


54 posted on 04/11/2007 6:40:37 AM PDT by the OlLine Rebel (Common sense is an uncommon virtue.)
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To: Milwaukee_Guy

Check this out!!!!!!!!!

http://www.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNews/story/CTVNews/20070410/menu_foods_070410/20070410?hub=TopStories


55 posted on 04/11/2007 7:11:23 AM PDT by sweetiepiezer (Click my name and see my baby. Thank you sooo much Brad's Gramma)
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To: HairOfTheDog

Interesting...........
http://www.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNews/story/CTVNews/20070410/menu_foods_070410/20070410?hub=TopStories


56 posted on 04/11/2007 8:22:50 AM PDT by sweetiepiezer (Click my name and see my baby. Thank you sooo much Brad's Gramma)
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To: mom4kittys

No.... did the other person indicate what she/he thought was missing? Looks balanced to me. Like I said with sick kitty I’d still supplement the B-12 and folate.


57 posted on 04/11/2007 9:37:06 AM PDT by Arizona Carolyn
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To: Arizona Carolyn

I foeget, they all sound alike after a while. Mabe A, d or K?


58 posted on 04/11/2007 10:36:35 AM PDT by mom4kittys (If velvet could sing, it would sound like Josh Groban)
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To: mom4kittys

Too much D is dangerous, that was another recall a year or two ago..... a formula changed and too much D in the food and dogs and cats died.


59 posted on 04/11/2007 12:12:59 PM PDT by Arizona Carolyn
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To: elli1
When you read this article you can see how we are all at risk.

Seems modified food in tests is giving all sorts of health problems in the test animals -- like kidney failure. So how much of this debacle is rat poison, melamine or genetically altered corn?

60 posted on 04/11/2007 12:43:56 PM PDT by Arizona Carolyn
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