Aug 13 2008
Pet Food Recall Web Links
While there are hundreds of press articles, personal web sites and blogs, and other media covering this major pet food recall, I am limiting this list to a cross-section of links.
- Menu Foods PR of 3/24/07: Recall Expanded
Confirming rumors that had been circulating several days, Menu Foods announced that it was expanding the recall to include all dates of manufacture for the recalled pet foods on the original list.Added 3/26/07 - Tragedy Prompts Pet Food Recall
Amy Shojai, co-founder of Cat Writers' Association, lends an air of calm, objective reporting to this unhappy event.Added 3/24/07 - Pet Food Scare Information Without Using Scare Tactics
Steve Dale, well-known journalist and broadcaster, attended the FDA press conference on Friday, March 23, 2007. He shares the information revealed there, as well as some links to other resources. - Rat Poison Blamed for Pet Deaths
MSNBC/Associated Press news release confirms speculation that a rodenticide not licensed in the U.S. has been found in toxic amounts in two of the three recalled pet food samples tested by chemists. - PeTa: Menu Foods Tests Dish out Cruelty and Suffering
Story tracks an undercover PeTa member's observations while working at one of Menu Foods test labs.
Important Pet Food Recall Resources
- AVMA Offers Advice to Pet Owners after Nationwide Food Recall
- Menu Foods Pet Food Recall Press Release (PDF File)
(Revised) The original release mentioned "contaminated wheat gluten from a new supplier" as a possible source of the deaths of cats and dogs, leading to the recall. This PR only says "The Fund has, however, discovered that timing of the production associated with these complaints, coincides with the introduction of an ingredient from a new supplier. The Fund stopped using this ingredient shortly after this discovery and production since then has been undertaken using ingredients from another source." It should be noted that "The Fund" PR is targeted to investors as is heavily weighted to that direction. - Menu Foods List of Recalled Cat Foods
A reminder that these are all of the "cuts and gravy" variety as opposed to pate, and only sold in cans and packets. Dry foods have not be subject to this recall. - Menu Foods List of Recalled Dog Foods
Also of the "cuts and gravy" variety. - FDA Pet Food Recall Index
Contains links to the FDA, Menu Foods, Nestle Purina, Hills Pet Nutrition, and P&G Pet Care press releases concerning the pet food recall.
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