I followed this link to the Menu Foods FAQs. It's mostly a propaganda
page, but I did see something of value there... Belinda had posted a
concern over dry food as well as the wet, but according to this Menu
Foods page, they only produce wet food, no dry whatsoever. So unless
this tainted "mystery" ingredient found it's way into another
manufacturer's plant, then dry food should be safe, (I have such a hard
time typing the word "safe" right now).
Nina
Susan Hoffman wrote:
Here's a list of foods not on recall list and info on who manufactures
them: http://petsitusa.com/blog/?p=210
*/Marylyn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>/* wrote:
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 <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
*To:* [email protected]
<mailto:[email protected]>
*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]
<mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>> wrote:
Can someone tell me more about the royal canin recall? I
use the S/O for all my cats........
t
