 Safety of Dog Foods
#139193 - 04/24/2007 06:49 AM |
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I know that most of us here are feeding a natural diet, but to those who don't...
Please do not feed any foods/treats/etc with wheat gluten, rice gluten, or corn gluten!
Apparently a second company imported tainted rice gluten and I'd say we will be seeing more recalls again.
Also, try to feed foods that have USA ingredients. Canidae is the only brand so far that has said they use only ingredients from our country (have to take this as fact, but who knows, of course).
This is a very scary thing!
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[Re: Melissa Hoyer ]
#139196 - 04/24/2007 07:29 AM |
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I know a lot of people who feed Purina and haven't fully checked into it, but seems they have not been affected, are they a "stand alone, made in USA too? Just curious, as they, I believe, were a "maybe" recall in the beginning, but then ok'd their products. Am I mistaken about this?
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Re: Safety of Dog Foods
[Re: Michele McAtee ]
#139200 - 04/24/2007 07:45 AM |
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I'm not sure, Michelle. I think people should be aware that there have been two confirmed shipments of tainted rice protein concentrate into this country.
The first was to Wilbur-Ellis, who says the RPC was shipped to 5 pet food manufacturers. Only three of the five have been named (Royal Canin, Natural Balance, and Blue Buffalo)...there are still TWO pet food manufacturers out there with this ingredient that have not come forward.
According to MSNBC, a second company in the US also received tainted RPC. This company has not been named yet (or any companies they may have distributed too.)
There have also been recalls of corn gluten in South Africa.
This is much larger than just the Menu Foods recall. In fact, I have been following it on the FDA website.
Here are some links: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/18279643/from/ET/
http://www.fda.gov/oc/opacom/hottopics/petfood.html
Edited by Melissa Hoyer (04/24/2007 07:55 AM)
Edit reason: to add links
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[Re: Michele McAtee ]
#139278 - 04/24/2007 01:23 PM |
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I know a lot of people who feed Purina and haven't fully checked into it, but seems they have not been affected, are they a "stand alone, made in USA too?
You could try this for yourself, but a person on a breed list I am on called Purina re Proplan and asked "Does Proplan use any ingredients that come from outside the US".
The answer she received was "Purina considers this proprietary information" 
Cheers,
Jennifer C
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#139280 - 04/24/2007 01:29 PM |
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...The answer she received was "Purina considers this proprietary information" WHAT??? They can't be serious!!!
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#139292 - 04/24/2007 02:26 PM |
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For what it's worth, Purina was very forthcoming with me, going through a list of ingredients and telling me where each one came from (although not the name of the supplier) and guaranteeing, ingredient by ingredient, that they were from the U.S. This did not extend to some amino acid ingredients, uninvolved (as far as I know) in the problem, but it did cover all grain glutens and everything else I could think of.
Personally, I consider Purina products to be WAY up there on the list of absolutely inappropriate foods for dogs; I consider them to be in the same class of junk as Science Diet.
But to be fair, I didn't run into any withholding at all of information.
P.S. This person at Purina also said that the pouch foods previously contracted to Menu would probably never be sold again.
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#139295 - 04/24/2007 02:30 PM |
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#139301 - 04/24/2007 03:02 PM |
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Personally, I consider Purina products to be WAY up there on the list of absolutely inappropriate foods for dogs; I consider them to be in the same class of junk as Science Diet.
Totally agree. (now that I know better--though I did fed Purina to my first dog who lived to just shy of 14.)
It does not surprise me that there were 2 entirely different responses from Purina. "Proprietary information"...whatever, sounds to me like a young customer service rep who'd rather sound like he/she knows something other than "I don't know", either that or was told by a boss to say that...??? Who knows.
This whole recall thing is incredibly disturbing.
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#139304 - 04/24/2007 03:11 PM |
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It does not surprise me that there were 2 entirely different responses from Purina. "Proprietary information"...whatever, sounds to me like a young customer service rep who'd rather sound like he/she knows something other than "I don't know", either that or was told by a boss to say that...??? Who knows.
This whole recall thing is incredibly disturbing.
Well, when I called the special recall 800 number for recall info, that person knew very little. I then called the regular corporate number, as opposed to the group of new folks they had to hire and set up with telephones to deal with the recall questions.
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#139334 - 04/24/2007 09:23 PM |
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I wonder if any big companies will come out with grain free options after this whole mess is over, so that they may capitalize on the "fear" that is out there at present. Or would that devalue their crap filled products? Only time will tell.
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Jennifer C
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