Posted on 08/27/2007 9:14:25 AM PDT by Milwaukee_Guy
Menu Foods has re-supplied Wal-Mart with previously recalled pet food after placing a new UPC code over the previous UPC codes. They claim that the re-shelved foods are completely safe and that the packaging is the issue, not the food inside. The decision to place new stickers over the old UPC code was reportedly made together with Wal-Mart.
Menu Foods said all of the contaminated food was returned back to them after the pet food recalls in March. In order to put a “safe” product back on the shelves, Menu Foods and Wal-Mart put a laminated sticker with a new product code over the original UPC on the new pouches of pet food.
Menu Foods acknowledges that the original product code that is on the packages is on the recall list. But company officials say recalls are also tied to production dates and that all Special Kitty cat food with the new laminated product codes are safe.
They added that all of the Special Kitty cat food made after the recall has “QA OK” (Quality Assured Okay) placed on the pouch.
UPDATE: A few readers have also commented that they have seen Ol’ Roy dog food from Wal-Mart with a new sticker over the old UPC code that was on the recall list.
Recalled pet foods being restocked - PING!
They've been serving it in the company cafeteria for three weeks and no one has died yet.
You would be surprised at the tricks these pet food companies will use. The stores, too.
Somethings fishy (excuse pun). I can’t believe there’s any way Walmart would go along with this, they have everything to loase and nothing to gain.
I am surprised that anyone buys that product at all!!!
Special Kitty, gads, Special Dead Kitties. Sad, sad, sad.
I heard over the weekend from somebody ‘in the know’ that Wal Mart will be reporting a 40% drop in sales the past quarter or so.
And its due to the Chinese product implosion we’ve seen these past few months.
I know you don’t use this brand, but thought I’d ping you to the continued greed and corruption at Walmart!
No way I am going to buy any of the recalled products period. They are shooting themselves in the foot all for a profit. Walmart, shame on you. Do you not care about your customers and their pets. Obviously, the answer is no.
OMG
I’m sure that Wal-Mart is telling all their customers this.............right? Yeah sure.
Not good.
Absolutely disgusting. I hope this is the final nail in the coffin for Menu Foods. And after a long love/hate relationship with WalMart, I have pretty much taken all my business to Target. I find their store brand is comparable to WalMart’s and better quality. I only really use WalMart now on Mondays when the commissary is closed and I need some emergency groceries.
Same here. Too many things have gone wrong to maintain one iota of faith in these products.
And it is all the fault of the companies involved.
Free market economics.
They talk, I’ll walk......
I get a monthly magazine called Whole Dog Journal that gives a lot of information about raw food/homemade food diets for dogs. I believe they have a sister magazine for cats. I personally don’t feed my dogs a raw diet due to time constraints, but they also issue a well-respected list of best dog foods.
I found the link to both sites....
Whole Cat Journal:
http://www.wholecatjournal.com/
Whole Dog Journal:
http://www.whole-dog-journal.com/
I am not entirely sure they are related, but I have sworn by the Whole Dog Journal’s list for years, and the food I feed my dogs is up at the top and had no issues on any of these recalls.
I agree. They just shot themselves.
The sub-text of this move:
“We here at Wal Mart join our friends at Menu Foods in gratefulness that so very many of our customers are ignorant and careless.”
I am making mine now for my guys.
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