did anyone notice that, during the first day or so of this recall, there was an announcement that they'd identified the source of the e-coli contamination from last summer? (to be honest, i didn't pay that much attention to it, because the pet-food thing was more important.) the point is that it's likely to take months for them to know for sure, IF THEY EVER DO, just what caused this, AND how far-reaching it might be.
just found out that one of the FIVs we adopted out at the sanctuary was a probably victim of the early contamination; he was a little off his feed, so they gave him a can of his favorite junk food--one of the recalled brands..... very quick deterioration, very much in keeping with how a rodenticide would affect a cat. GLOW for our bart, an always-gentlemanly cat who would wait for all the other cats and kittens to eat before doing so himself.... On 3/25/07, Nina <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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]> wrote: > > Can someone tell me more about the royal canin recall? I use the S/O for all my cats........ > t
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