from e-mail: Still more pet food is being recalled.

[lagilman]

Recalled Pet Food List Grows - It's Time To Act

This afternoon, by internet press release, Menu Pet Foods is now telling consumer to get rid of ALL wet food ("cuts and gravy) manufactured by their company, regardless of date. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration is backing up the announcement. This is the direct quote from the Menu Foods Company: As a result of reports from the FDA and various media outlets that some recalled lots of "cuts and gravy" style wet pet food remain on store shelves, Menu Foods has asked all retail outlets to immediately remove all impacted varieties of wet pet food posted at www.menufoods.com, regardless of the date code. In other words, please click on the link below--which is from the FDA website--and throw ALL of the wet food brands listed out. Period.

Recall of Pet Foods Manufactured by Menu Foods, Inc.-- Revised March 24, 2007

This is not to alarm or panic you, only to let you know about something that was announced on a Sunday afternoon on the Internet only on the company's website and the FDA's website. A few quick-thinking electronic media outlets have also (slowly) started to pick up the story. But the way this was "announced" in my opinion smells suspiciously like what we in the media call "burying the story." Friends, it is time for us to act as consumers who are entrusted with the well-being of our companion animals. We at New York Tails have endeavored in the past to urge everyone to check out how the pet food industry is--and isn't--regulated. (See http://www.newyorktails.com/pe tfood.htm as an example.) Now this issue has come to the fore in a most unfortunate way. Please go to the FDA link to see the updated information. In the meantime, I'd like to ask you all to join me in writing a short note to the Food and Drug Administration's Center for Veterinary Medicine and attaching a picture of you and your pet(s) on it--dogs, cats, birds, fish, exotics. More details to come. But first, get rid of the food as listed in the updated release. Then, get paper, pen, envelope and a photo of you and your pet ready. I have an idea I'd like to run by you which I'll tell you more about in a few days.

Stay tuned, stay well

Diane West
New York Tails
email: newyorktails@aol.com
phone: 212.214.0653
web: http://www.newyorktails.com

Comments

[wolfsilveroak.livejournal.com]

A fellow employee just bought 10 cans of the now recalled crap. I told her to take it back and ask for her money back.

She says her dogs just ate some this morning. Hopefully nothing will happen to them.

[leethomas.livejournal.com]

Thank you for posting this. Fortunately, the wet food we give Buster isn't on any of the lists, but I think we'll take him off it anyway. Too scary to mess around with, and he's perfectly happy with dry.

Thanks again.

[pearlformance.livejournal.com]

ok, we need this translated to cat, stat. She doesn't DO dry.

[lagilman]

My kids get wet in the morning, half a can each, and dry the rest of the day for grazing. But it's not the "sliced" stuff with gravy, and the brand isn't one that's been recalled, so I feel reasonably confident in keeping them on it (and not risking a rebellion). But if it was all they ate... then I'd be worried, yeah, no matter the brand.

[debg.livejournal.com]

We got extremely lucky, considering the number of cats we take care of. The only brand on that list we've ever touched is Nutro, and I'd only just discovered those. I brought both cartons (24 cans) back to Pet Club last week. He said the date was a safe date, I said don't care, not messing with it, they took them back and I bought Fancy Feast instead.

But this is seriously scary stuff.