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Originally Posted by Nancy1999  I guess I'm hoping to hear BEFORE it kills any dogs, and maybe some are just getting sick. Is that expecting too much? |
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Originally Posted by Maximo That would be the ideal, that the food would be tested before it is packaged and sent out to kill. |
Expanding on this topic....it is a matter of testing each batch of each product, and knowing what to test for. There are many known problems to test for, salmonella for instance. I would imagine there are some things that are unknown or cannot be anticipated.
I'm still looking for a master list of recalls going back to the 1990s or even earlier. If anyone knows of one, please share.
Here are a few of the biggies:
1995 - Nature's Recipe - About 1-million pounds of dry dog and cat food. Pet owners complained that their pets were vomiting and had lost their appetite. The problem was a fungus that produced vomitoxin contaminating the wheat.
1999 - Doane Pet Care - Over a million bags of corn-based dry dog food that had been contaminated with aflatoxin. Products included the Wal-Mart brand, Ol' Roy and 53 other brands. There were 25 dogs that died.
2000 - Iams - 248,000 pounds of dry dog food that had been distributed in 7 states. There was an excess DL-Methionine Amino Acid, a urinary acidifier.
2003 - Go! Natural - Circumstantial association with some dogs suffering from liver disease; no cause was ever found.
2005 - Diamond Foods - a similar recall as Go! Natural. Moldy corn contained a very bad fungal product called aflatoxin. There were 100 dogs that died.