I was just reading an article in the LA Times... It answered a question
I asked yesterday about whether it had been substantiated by Menu Foods
that the wheat from China is indeed the culprit for the poisoning.
Here's part of that article:
Executives at Menu Foods said Friday that they didn't know how the rat
poison got into their products. They said they had stopped using an
ingredient that might be responsible for the contamination. The company
declined to say what it was.
"We'll systematically go through every ingredient and eliminate them as
a possibility." said Richard Shields, Menu Foods' executive vice
president. "We don't believe our quality control was lax."
Because aminopterin is widely used as a rodenticide in China, where Menu
Foods gets wheat gluten that is used to make pet "gravy" for some of its
pet-food brands, there is some suspicion that the country could be the
origin of the problem. Although the FDA said it hadn't located the
exact source of the contamination, it did say it had traced the delivery
route of wheat gluten supplied to the Menu Foods plants in Kansas and
New Jersey where the contaminated food was produced. Menu continues to
produce pet food at the two plants.
If we knew for certain that the wheat gluten from China was the culprit,
then I would feel a tiny bit safer as I check every can in the house for
ingredients that included wheat... How could it be that Menu Foods is
"systematically" checking every ingredient and not have started with the
ingredient under suspicion? And if they did, why haven't we been told
unequivocally whether it is or isn't the ingredient responsible?? I
don't know why I'm even asking such a question, when Mr. Shields has the
nerve to be quoted as saying something as stupid as "We don't believe
our quality control was lax". My guess is he's been having more frank
and open conversations with his attorneys than he's willing to have with us.
Nina
Kelley Saveika wrote:
I want to know this too..I have the prescription veterinary recovery
formula or whatever you call it...the one that is like a/d.
On 3/25/07, *catatonya* <[EMAIL PROTECTED]
<mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>> wrote:
Can someone tell me more about the royal canin recall? I use the
S/O for all my cats........
t
