Fifth Contaminant Discovered in Dog Food Samples !

Another dog food recall due to Salmonella.
Doane Pet Care a Virginia company is recalling their dry dog food that they had sold to Walmart.They claim that the dog food may be contaminated with salmonella.There has not been any fatality reported and they have pointed out that this recall is not connected to the recent national pet food recall.

In yet another shocking story was the discovery of pain reliever acetaminophen in some dog food samples.The U.S. Food and Drug Administration is investigating a Texas laboratory's finding of acetaminophen in dog and cat food, an agency spokesman said.
The pain medication is the fifth contaminant found in pet foods during the past 2 1/2 months and can be toxic or lethal to pets, especially cats. It is not known if any animals became sick with acetaminophen poisoning, or died from it.

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Will the pet food recall ever end?

The dry dog food Nutra Nuggets, made by Diamond Pet Foods of Meta, Missouri has been recalled after samples have tested positive for melamine. Melamine is a chemical used to make plastics and fertilizers. It is not approved for use in human or pet food. A veterinary in Visalia, California became suspicious of the dog food after four of his client's dogs went into kidney failure. After some investigation he was able to find that all these dogs were fed with Nutra Nuggets dry food which had been bought from the same Costco store in Visalia, California sometime in mid April. The doctor had the dog food tested and those samples tested positive for melamine.

One dog owner from La Fontaine, Indiana, says her two dogs became sick twice after eating Diamond’s Chicken Soup for the Dog Lover’s Soul. When asked if she could feed her dogs with commercial dog food she emphatically said No! Her advice is for dog owners to cook their own dog food.

This recall comes only days after another pet food manufacturer Chenango Valley Pet Foods had recalled more of their pet food to include those pet foods that do not contain rice protein concentrate but were manufactured during periods when rice protein concentrate formulas were processed to avoid cross-contamination.

The pet food industry through the Pet Food Institute have formed the National Pet Food Commission to investigate the cause of the current pet food recall and come up with recommendations for the industry.


We hope Pet Food Institute will get to the root of this matter but in the meantime your best solution is to prepare food for your dog.
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Pet food recall drives natural pet food sales up!

"All Natural Pet" in Vancouver was packed with dogs and their owners.

Natural food sales were up nearly forty-percent in the six weeks since the first Nationwide Pet Food Recall was announced in March.
This is what Dr. Bob Ulbrich, VMD had to say "we've been recommending raw foods for a long time for general health. Now with the pet food recall, there's an extra reason, because of the fact you don't know exactly what's going in the foods."
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Vet calming pet owners after food recall

Ahwatukee veterinarian Alex MacKenzie is almost as busy calming worried pet owners as he is treating their pets in the wake of the recent pet food recall.

"In general, what we're seeing is a lot of concern from people about the quality of their pet food," said MacKenzie, of Foothills Animal Hospital.

The concern follows the recall of about 100 brands of dog and cat food thought to be contaminated with melamine, a chemical used for industrial purposes and, when ingested, causes kidney failure in some animals, particularly cats.
Read the rest of the article Here for the telltale signs to look out for in your pets.

In the wake of the scare, some pet owners have decided to make their own dog and cat food.
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Facts On Pet and Dog Food Recall!

The Food and Drug Administration has taken action against manufacturers of pet food by recalling more than 100 Brands due to chemically contaminated ingredients.The pet food, tainted with the chemical melamine, apparently has resulted in kidney failure in an unknown number of animals across the country.
The list of tainted canned foods keep increasing every year as more brands are under investigation.More companies have recalled more food and treats with the contaminated ingredient.
A complete list of the recalled products along with product codes, descriptions and production dates is available as reported in the FDA Pet Food Recall
Update of April 26, 2007 here.

What then can we give our dogs which is safe and healthy to avoid poisoning them? One solution is to give them homemade dog food which is relatively simple to make and cheaper too.
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