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Originally Posted by Ellie May  Natural Balance was recalled.
Foods made at Diamond were recalled because of aflatoxin...and there was something online about them putting things through that they shouldn't have leading to this. That killed several dogs. Canidae is now manufactured there as is Chicken Soup, I believe and lots of other big names. I would really hesitate to feed any food made there.
I wouldn't want to give anything where any of the ingredients are from China (although that's about impossible with vitamins). That wheat gluten issue was because of that. As for quality control in general, I would sooner pick a company like SD because they have the money to do more testing on their foods. Not saying I am recommending it but I think there can be benefits when feeding food from a larger company. Of course this isn't always the case because look at Mars and Nutro...
And hasn't Merrick had three recalls?
One for metal in the food, one for possible salmonella and one when they were manufacturing a food for someone else and dogs started dying (could be wrong)? |
The recall through diamond foods was in 2006, here is an article that I dug up about it,
Toxic pet food kills dozens of dogs - Pet health- msnbc.com it was because of alfatoxin which usually involves corn.. most of thier products as well as canidea dont contain corn anymore. I know the 2 pet foods that I feed my pets dont. Im not saying that they werent wrong, however they fixed the problem. I honestly (and sadly) believe that eventually every pet food company will have some sort of recall.
Even with human food there are recalls just about everyday.
