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04-25-2008, 03:07 PM | #1 |
Donating Yorkie Yakker Join Date: Jan 2007 Location: Central Pennsylvania, USA
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| Possible pet food contamination I was searching around for info on food analysis and stumbled upon this article. The FDA alert was originally from Jan 2008 and was recently updated. I know its a few months old but I didn't see this posted anywhere on here yet. I don't know what the turn around time is for pet food manufacturing...but if the ingredient was received in January I would bet that the bags containing it will be on the shelves by the end of summer if not already. I'm not taking any chances and waiting for them to announce another recall! Sorry if this has already been mentioned. Important! - More melamine tainted glutens imported from China I could not find the names of the pet food companies that purchased the new tainted melamine glutens – but I have found the FDA documents confirming that melamine tainted glutens have entered the U.S. from China again and a FDA alert…”Detention without physical examination of all vegetable protein products from China for animal or human food use due to the presence of melamine and/or melamine analogs”. Here is the link for the FDA alert: IMPORT ALERT IA9929 I have to tell you – now that I have run across this FDA alert (found it this morning – it is dated 1/7/08) – now it makes sense of all the new reports I’ve heard of and read about pets getting sick. I continue to feel very strongly that any pet owner who is feeding their pet a food or treat with any ingredient that comes from China is taking a huge risk. And I also feel that any pet owner that is feeding their pet a food or treat with a gluten ingredient (corn gluten, rice gluten, and so forth) or a vegetable protein (soy protein, rice protein) is taking a huge risk. These ingredients are typically imported from China – red flag, red flag, big red flag! Please look at your pet’s food and treat labels. Read the brief FDA alert (link above) and if you see any ingredient listed in the alert in the food or treats you are currently giving your pet listed – stop feeding that food. I would typically tell you to switch to a new food slowly – however, considering the number of sick pets being reported and the FDA alert – I would recommend stop feeding that food or treat immediately. Per the FDA alert – here are the products listed: Wheat Gluten Rice Gluten Rice Protein Rice Protein Concentrate Corn Gluten Corn Gluten Meal Corn By-Products Soy Protein Soy Gluten Soy Meal Mung Bean Protein The strange thing is if you go to the FDA site and search for the alert it only appears when you type in the alert number! It doesn't come up when you look under alerts or search Melamine, China, Import, etc...I thought that was odd!
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04-25-2008, 03:57 PM | #2 |
Love My Li'l Lucy Donating Member Join Date: Jun 2007 Location: Southern California
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| Thank you for posting this information.
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04-25-2008, 04:14 PM | #3 |
YT 500 Club Member Join Date: Oct 2007 Location: nebraska
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| Here we go again!! I had read this awhile ago. The FDA is powerless and clueless. They have even admitted to this. We are really on our own. Not only our furkids food but ours as well. Sad to say but this isn't going away any time soon if ever. We just have to be aware of what we are feeding our furkids and ourselves. Thank-you for posting this. |
04-25-2008, 05:16 PM | #4 |
YT Addict Join Date: Apr 2008 Location: SW Florida
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| I'm really thinking about a RAW diet right now.
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04-28-2008, 09:25 AM | #5 |
Donating Yorkie Yakker Join Date: Jan 2007 Location: Central Pennsylvania, USA
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| I hear ya! I am sick of all the dog food issues. I tried giving him the Primal Raw diet and my little prince had Zero interest! I am gonna try the NV raw diet (which a lot of YT'ers seem to love), to see if my little picky eater might like that one better.
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