I would like to find a comprehensive list of all the foods Menu has anything to
do with. Not the recall list but anything to do with.
If you have men who will
exclude any of God's creatures
from the shelter of compassion
and pity, you will have men who
will deal likewise with their
fellow man.
St. Francis
----- Original Message -----
From: Nina
To: felvtalk@felineleukemia.org
Sent: Sunday, March 25, 2007 1:51 PM
Subject: Re: cat food recall-royal cannin
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
