Pet Food News
13 entries
- More Details on the Acetaminophen Scare
This news is a week old, but it's not my fault. When you live with a guy who does molecular biology, the last thing you suspect is that he can't spell the name of a common drug. Anyway, the story...
# At June 12, 2007 2:29 PM | Tags: acetaminophen cats cyanuric acid ExperTox health risks Menu Foods pet food Pet Pride - ASPCA Warns of Acetominophen Poisoning in Cats
We subscribe to the cat newsletter produced by Dr. Jon of PetPlace.com. Today, we received a warning taken from an ASPCA press release about acetaminophen contamination in pet foods. Acetaminophen is an over-the-counter pain medication originally distributed under the name...
# At June 12, 2007 9:35 AM | Tags: acetaminophen cats health risks pet food - Why We Should Trust the Chinese
You may remember some time back I reported that the bad wheat gluten had been exported by a Chinese textile company. We now know why: this enabled them to dodge the standard inspection process for food exports. See, one doesn't...
# At May 10, 2007 4:44 PM | Tags: Binzhou Futian China conservative exports FDA Harry Reid health risks Hollywood imports Iraq melamine Nancy Pelosi pet food satire Xuzhou Anying - Melamine Used to Thicken Pet Food Protein Plot
It just keeps getting weirder and weirder. According to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, the melamine scare began as a simple case of fraud. Binzhou Futian Biology Technology added melamine to wheat flour to make it appear to be...
# At May 9, 2007 4:45 PM | Tags: Binzhou Futian cats China health risks melamine Menu Foods pet food Tian Feng - South Africa Recalls Vets Choice and Royal Canin
South Africa is recalling pet foods manufactured using corn gluten imported from China. This pretty much makes the entire situation hopeless. The United States is a net exporter of corn gluten. If your pet food was manufactured in the United...
# At April 19, 2007 2:46 PM | Tags: cats China corn gluten health risks pet food - Now It's In the Rice, Too
Natural Balance Pet Foods is recalling its Venison foods line because they use a rice protein concentrate imported from China, and it has melamine in it. First wheat gluten, now rice protein. This has got to stop, people. Dogs and...
# At April 19, 2007 3:06 AM | Tags: cats China health risks melamine Menu Foods Natural Balance pet food Purina rice protein - The Melamine Pet Food Saga Continues
I subscribe to a pet news email service. In general, the stuff they send me is worse than useless. A recent story on music for cats contained so many unconfirmed suppositions that even CBS would find it unacceptable. Today they...
# At April 12, 2007 2:09 PM | Tags: capitalism cats China health risks Iraq melamine Menu Foods mercantilism pet food pet health Xuzhou Anying - Beware of Wheat Gluten from Xuzhou Anying Biologic
In response to the pet food recall crisis, The FDA has placed an import restriction on wheat gluten from Xuzhou Anying Biologic Technology Development Company Ltd. The technical term for this type of restriction is detention without examination, meaning none...
# At April 3, 2007 1:49 AM | Tags: China FDA health risks Menu Foods Suzhou Textiles wheat gluten Xuzhou Anying - The Menu Foods Recall, Canada, China, and the Fine Points of International Commerce
Barbara Simpson's column reminded me that the contaminated wheat gluten used in the recalled Menu Foods products came from China. There are two points that need to be made. In the mid Nineties, The United States consumed about 300 million...
# At March 26, 2007 2:55 PM | Tags: aminopterin Canada capitalism cats China conservative economics exports fenitrothion imports international trade John Maynard Keynes Menu Foods mercantilism protectionism socialism the long run wheat gluten - Menu Foods Recall and the 40 Parts Per Million
We now have more information about the contamination in the Menu Foods products. The New York State Animal Health Diagnostic Center at Cornell University and the New York State Food Laboratory tested three samples of the contaminated products. One sample...
# At March 24, 2007 11:20 AM | Tags: Bruce Akey Cornell University Menu Foods mozzarella cheese New York State Food Laboratory pets wheat gluten - Menu Foods Toxin May Have Been Identified
According to ABC News, the current theory for the reason that Menu Foods products have been killing animals is that the wheat gluten was contaminated with a rat poison called aminopterin. Aminopterin is not legal for use as a pesticide...
# At March 23, 2007 2:44 PM | Tags: aminopterin cancer cat food cats chemotherapy dog food dogs health risks Menu Foods - About the Menu Foods Pet Food Recall
As a public service, here are my recommendations on what to do about the Menu Foods recall. This all began because when Menu Foods was performing routine taste tests on its latest shipments. Twenty-five cats and fifteen dogs participated in...
# At March 22, 2007 4:18 PM | Tags: cats health risks Menu Foods Mighty Dog pets Purina Tammy Bruce The Other Cat - Dog and Cat Deaths Spark Pet Food Recall
Menu Foods, which produces pet food under many different brand names, including IAMS and Eukanuba, is recalling some of its products. For a complete list of the affected brands, check this web site. Only certain production lots are suspected, so...
# At March 18, 2007 8:35 PM | Tags: cat food cats dog food health risks Menu Foods
