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Posted on 04/06/2007 5:52:53 PM PDT by Milwaukee_Guy
Del Monte Pet Products Voluntarily Withdraws Specific Product Codes of Pet Treats and Wet Dog Food Products in the United States
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April 6, 2007—As a precautionary measure, Del Monte Pet Products is voluntarily recalling select product codes of its pet treat products sold under the Jerky Treats®, Gravy Train® Beef Sticks and Pounce Meaty Morsels® brands as well as select dog snack and wet dog food products sold under private label brands. A complete list of affected brands and products is below.
The Company took this voluntary recall action immediately after learning from the FDA that wheat gluten supplied to Del Monte Pet Products from a specific manufacturing facility in China contained melamine. Melamine is a substance not approved for use in food. The FDA made this finding as part of its ongoing investigation into the recent pet food recall.
The adulteration occurred in a limited production quantity on select product codes of the brands below. This recall removes all Del Monte pet products with wheat gluten procured from this manufacturing facility from retail shelves. In addition, since the beginning of the recall in mid-March, Del Monte has discontinued sourcing product from this plant.
No other Del Monte Pet Products treats, biscuits or wet dog food products are impacted by this recall, and no Del Monte dry cat food, dry dog food, wet cat food or pouched pet foods are subject to this voluntary recall.
Del Monte Pet Products has proactively engaged and fully cooperated with the FDA since the start of its investigation. The adulterated ingredients were used in limited production over the last three months for those items identified by specific product codes. Del Monte Pet Products has not used wheat gluten from this manufacturing facility in China in any other pet products except those described below.
Consumers should discontinue feeding the products with the Product Codes detailed below to their pets.
Del Monte Pet Products are 100% guaranteed and all voluntarily recalled products will be refunded.
Del Monte Pet Products customers can contact our Consumer Hotline at (800) 949-3799 for further information about the recall and for instructions on obtaining a product refund. Consumers can also click on the "Contact Us" button and submit the Contact Us form, including UPC number, product name, Best By Date, and manufacturing code information (located under the Best By date).
Consumers may also write to us at:
Del Monte P.O. Box 80 Pittsburgh PA 15230-0080
Following is a COMPLETE and UPDATED list of Del Monte Pet Products and Best Buy Dates that have been voluntarily recalled in the United States. BRANDED Production Code/Best By Date Jerky Treats Beef Flavor Dog Snacks Code: Best By: TP7B06 Aug 06 08 TP7B07 Aug 07 08 TP7B08 Aug 08 08 TP7B09 Aug 09 08 TP7B10 Aug 10 08 Code: Best By: TP7B15 Aug 15 08 TP7B16 Aug 16 08 TP7CO5 Sep 02 08 TP7C06 Sep 03 08 Gravy Train Beef Sticks Dog Snacks Code: Best By: TP7B19 Aug 19 08 TP7B20 Aug 20 08 Pounce Meaty Morsels Moist Chicken Flavor Cat Treats Code: Best By: TP7C12 Sep 09 08
PRIVATE LABEL Production Code/Best By Date Ol' Roy Beef Flavor Jerky Strips Dog Treats Code: Best By: TP7B06 Aug 06 08 TP7B07 Aug 07 08 TP7B08 Aug 08 08 TP7C05 Sep 02 08 TP7C06 Sep 03 08 Code: Best By: TP7C07 Sep 04 08 TP7C08 Sep 05 08 Ol' Roy Beef Flavor Snack Sticks Dog Treats Code: Best By: TP7B19 Aug 19 08 TP7B20 Aug 20 08 TP7B21 Aug 21 08 TP7C08 Sep 05 08 TP7C09 Sep 06 08 Code: Best By: TP7C10 Sep 07 08 Ol' Roy with Beef Hearty Cuts in Gravy Dog Food Code: Best By: BC6M21 Dec 21 09 Ol' Roy with Beef Hearty Strips in Gravy Dog Food Code: Best By: BC7A19 Jan 19 10 Ol' Roy Country Stew Hearty Cuts in Gravy Dog Food Code: Best By: BC6M15 Dec 15 09 Dollar General Beef Flavored Jerky Strips Dog Treats Code: Best By: TP7CO5 Sep 02 08 TP7C06 Sep 03 08 TP7C07 Sep 04 08 TP7C08 Sep 05 08 Dollar General Beef Flavored Beef Sticks Dog Treats Code: Best By: TP7B20 Aug 20 08 TP7B21 Aug 21 08 TP7C08 Sep 05 08 TP7C09 Sep 06 08 TP7C10 Sep 07 08 Happy Tails Beef Flavor Jerky Strips Code: Best By: TP7B08 Aug 08 08 TP7B09 Aug 09 08 Happy Tails Meaty Cuts with Beef in Gravy Dog Food Code: Best By: BC7A29 Jan 29 10 Happy Tails Beef Flavor Beef Sticks Code: Best By: TP7C08 Sep 05 08 TP7C09 Sep 06 08
Recalled Products in Canada DLM Foods Canada Corp. Voluntarily Withdraws Jerky Treats Dog Snacks Beef Flavour with the Best Before Date of 16.08.08 TORONTO, April 2, 2007 - As a precautionary measure, DLM Foods Canada Corp. is voluntarily withdrawing Jerky Treats® Dog Treats Beef Flavour with the best before date of 16.08.08. Consumers should discontinue feeding this product and return affected products to their store for a refund. No other DLM Foods Canada Corp. products are subject to this voluntary withdrawal.
The Company took this voluntary withdrawal action after learning from the U.S. Food & Drug Administration (FDA) that wheat gluten supplied to DLM Foods Canada Corp. from a specific manufacturing facility in China contained melamine. Melamine is a substance not approved for use in food in the United States. The FDA made this finding as part of its ongoing investigation into the recent pet food recall in the United States. DLM Foods Canada Corp. conferred with the Canadian Food Inspection Agency today to coordinate the details of this voluntary withdrawal as it applied to the Canadian market.
The adulteration occurred in a limited production quantity indicated by the one best before date of Jerky Treats Dog Treats Beef Flavour product line mentioned above. This withdrawal removes all DLM Foods Canada Corp. pet products with wheat gluten procured from this manufacturing facility from retail shelves.
No other DLM Foods Canada Corp. products are subject to this voluntary withdrawal. The affected products comprise less than one-tenth of one percent of DLM Foods Canada Corp. annual pet food and pet treat production.
DLM Foods Canada Corp. has not used wheat gluten from this manufacturing facility in China in any other pet products except those described above.
DLM Foods Canada Corp. products are 100% guaranteed and all returned product will be refunded. For further information about DLM Foods Canada Corp. consumers can contact our Consumer Affairs at 1-866-657-6929.
As part of the pet community, we value the health and well-being of pets, and we deeply regret this situation. We will continue to take any and all actions necessary to ensure the quality and safety of our products.
Tuna is great food, but I wouldn’t feed it on a daily basis, the sodium content is way up there. Gotta be hard on the little critters.
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I was thinking the same thing. Our pets are dying but at least we have Globalism.
Didn’t the cowards in that big dome thingee in DC pass a law several years ago making it illegal to tell us where our produce came from after the dirty fithy Mexicans poisoned us with some e coli tainted strawberries?
Yep, I have a jar of that in my refrigerator - still! Need to throw it away as it’s old!
One source stated 10,000 tons of wheat gluten is imported in one year.
How long is it going to take to find and check all of this stuff?
Or maybe no real effort will be made.......
Great site!
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It’s the Chinese fault. They wanted to kill dogs in China anyway because of Rabies so the tainted the food and some of it found it’s way over here.
One source stated 10,000 tons of wheat gluten is imported in one year.
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I found 4,000 tons by his/wife’s company,,,THIS ONE.
he works for her,,,she is Chinese,,,
No tellin’ where they are now,,,
just like we said ,,,It keeps growing.
A few thoughts to ponder,
1. The wheat gluten imported from China was not for human consumption, because, I believe, it had been genetically engineered. The FDA has a wholly cavalier attitude toward feeding animals such ‘frankenfoods’ but places some restrictions when human consumption is involved (yet refuses appropriate food labeling).
2. The ‘rat poison’ aminopterin is used in molecular biology as an anti-metabolite, folate antagonist, and in genetic engineering biotechnology as a genetic marker. This could account for its presence in this imported wheat gluten.
3. The ‘plastic’, ‘wood preservative’, contaminant melamine, the parent chemical for a potent insecticide cyromazine, could well have been manufactured WITHIN the wheat plants themselves as a genetically engineered pesticide. This is much like the Bt. insecticidal poison present in most US commodity crops that go into animal feed.
4.So called ‘overexpression’ can occur when spliced genes that synthesize such chemicals become hyperactive inside the plant and result in potentially toxic plant tissues, lethal not just to meal worms and other crop pests, but to cats, dogs, birds, butterflies and other wildlife; and to their creators. (For details, see my book Killer Foods: What Scientists Do to Make Food Better is Not Always Best. Lyon’s Press, 2004).
Frankenfoods Ping! - Post #30
[see my book Killer Foods: What Scientists Do to Make Food Better is Not Always Best.]
Good for you!
It was a bad day When scientists got involved in genetically changing plants.
Perhaps it was a bad day when they banned DDT, a time when nothing else altered our food sources.
TANKS for the info...still lookin’...
I know what you mean. The problem is gluten is in more products then most people know. Cereals, grain products, pastries, processed foods, etc. Even many vitamin capsules are made of gluten.
It is also listed under various names like 'Grain Byproducts' or 'Wheat Byproducts'.
Just like MSG, just like sugar, just like trans-fats, they attempt to hide them under various names. Those of us lucky enough not to eat processed foods, sugars, etc., are still in the minority in this country.
Even if the contaminated gluten has not made it into the human food chain, this episode has shown us just how easily one mistake (or one terrorist act) can affect thousands, perhaps millions.
I don’t see Corporate, FDA or CDC interests predisposed to open this Pandora’s Box.
I have written that on the forum several times in the past few days. Perhaps even on this thread. How easy it would be to contaminate our food supply and create havoc! It's really frightening.
My brother has to avoid wheat products and it has been a chore having to examine content of everything he buys.
My son is a scientist, perhaps scientists should have stayed out of some things. They are always wanting to alter things and it’s not necessarily an improvement.
What brand do you suggest and where can I get some? About the tuna, my Aussies go nuts over it, too. It is funny how they scoot the can from room to room getting every last molecule of flavor. Make sure you flatten out the little sharp point left on the inside of the can.
Atomic ditto to your whole post #10.
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