<p><a href=“http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2007/03/17/financial/f043201D83.DTL[/url]”>http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2007/03/17/financial/f043201D83.DTL</a></p>
<p>Thanks for the info. I just happened to be trying out the Iams foil pouches for the first time. My pouches don’t seem to be part of the bad lot #s, but maybe I’ll hold off on giving them to the dog anyway…</p>
<p>CC is so amazing!!</p>
<p>It’s interesting that the recall affected some stores and not others, even though they all carry the same line of food - I guess it was different lots that were affected. Our dog usually eats the Dick Van Patten Natural Balance dry food, mixed in with a little bit of their canned stuff, but we also had some of the Nutro cans in the house. Even though none of the affected cans were sold by Petco, where I purchased them, they were gracious about taking these back anyway.</p>
<p>I keep remembering other recalls, such as the recent Peter Pan peanut butter one,where the scope of the recall was eventually expanded - so I wasn’t going to take any chances.</p>
<p>I’ve pulled all the Nutro chicken canned/pouch products off my shelves until I can get in the back today and check lot numbers. Figures this would happen over spring break when I actually am supposed to have some vacation days. I am still leaving for a 3 day trip tomorrow!</p>
<p>It looks like a huge recall because Menu Foods cans for so many different labels … the big three plus most of the private label store brands.</p>
<p>It does <em>not</em> sound like Menu is canning for the <em>better</em> brands, although it should be noted that the canned forumulae are all coming from different plants than the dry formulae, and very few of the dog food manufacturers have their <em>own</em> separate plants.</p>
<p>Looks like the bad food is coming from one or two plants.</p>
<p>my dog eats Merrick canned senior and Orijen dry- so it looks like those aren’t affected, but I have altered friends with pets</p>
<p>The better quality foods – the more holistic foods – are not affected. </p>
<p>Grocery store brands, plus Iams, Euk, SciDi and Nutro are all brands manufactured by Menu Foods. </p>
<p>What’s interesting to me is that I was just interviewed by a local daily about the recall – but I have yet to be contacted by any of my food reps. This story broke on Friday and it’s now Monday afternoon. I only carry one brand that may have some issues – but still! I had a sales rep call me this morning from a distributor that has a lot of affected brands – but he was calling about something else!</p>
<p>Most of the Iams are not made by Menu Foods- just a few of the canned and pouched items. so look at the codes before panicking!</p>
<p>It’s coming out today that the pet food in question may have been tainted with rat poison. A class action lawsuit is forthcoming…</p>
<p>I also heard about the rat poison on the radio today, gymeni. That’s just terrible. I have a 13 yr old dog, and I would just be devastated knowing that I was poisoning him with his food. We use Iams, but it’s the dry formula.</p>
<p>turns out the Iams pouches that I bought within the past month are on the recall list.</p>
<p>Thank goodness I hadn’t run out of old food before the recall!</p>
<p>Has anyone gone through the “getting your money back” procedure?</p>
<p>As a retailer … WE have not heard about how the manufacturers would like us to handle any refunding. In fact, I have not heard one single word from my supplier of the one affected brand that I carry. </p>
<p>However, if you bring your food into my shop … we’re going to help you out … if it’s the brand we carry, whether or not you bought it from me. And if it’s one of the ones that’s <em>available</em> to me that I choose not to carry, I can help you out with that too. </p>
<p>And suggest some better alternatives in the process.</p>
<p>Update:</p>
<p>I called the Iams Pet Recall # today. I had bought a 12 pack of pouches of dog food. They are sending me a voucher for 24 pouches. I may be asked to send them the dog food later (for testing purposes?). 4-6 weeks for the vouchers to arrive.</p>
<p>Costco has recalled some of its pet food
<a href=“http://www.komotv.com/news/7232201.html[/url]”>http://www.komotv.com/news/7232201.html</a></p>
<p>The Costco thing just makes me so angry… </p>
<p>I was in last week and noticed no canned dog food (housebrand). Usually there’s a pallet of the stuff. We still had some left over at home, but I don’t get in there that often. I wondered. </p>
<p>I called, I was assured it was fine and the pallet was somewhere on the floor, ( I didn’t want to call BS, but I knew it wasn’t out) just not in the pet food section. Now we will have to watch our dogs closely because somebody thought they were doing their company a favor by lying.</p>
<p>isn’t global trade a wonderful thing?
<a href=“http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/business/313689_petfood30.html[/url]”>http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/business/313689_petfood30.html</a></p>
<p>I had no idea that american pet food- even high end american pet food contained filler from China.
have our inspectors even been allowed over there yet?</p>
<p>As of a couple of weeks ago I wasn’t really worrying about pet food since we fed our Wheaten only dry food w/ no wheat or wheat gluten. Then I stumbled on this link, and read through all the posts from other owners. When I came across several mentions of the food our dog ate, I decided to play it safe and switch. (I also emailed our breeder and asked for her opinion. She did say some instances of people posting how their dog/cat was sick or had died and had been eating such and such a brand could be a coincidence – that pets do get sick for other reasons. I still decided to change food.)</p>
<p><a href=“http://hubpages.com/hub/Dog_Food_Recall_Is_Your_Dog_SICK[/url]”>http://hubpages.com/hub/Dog_Food_Recall_Is_Your_Dog_SICK</a></p>
<p>Anyway, the stuff from China certainly sounds nasty!</p>
<p>^ Thank you for that excellent link CBBBlinker. Honestly, this is just ridiculous, isn’t it?!</p>