Author: Sarah

Tests have shown that melamine was found in the corn gluten used in the pet food recalled in South Africa. (Previously covered.) It sounds like this is limited to South Africa. But, again the contaminated corn gluten was sourced from China.

You can find out much more on the recall on my Pet Food Recall Archive Page.

The Pet Food List is a good place to start learning more about our options in feeding our pets. It’s put together by PetSitUSA—a site for finding pet sitters, dog walkers, etc. (Thanks, Rod.)

You can find out much more on the recall on my Pet Food Recall Archive Page.

Menu Foods has added another brand to the recall. (They call this “refining” their list.) This time it’s Natural Life Vegetarian Canned Dog Food. Not to be confused with Natural Balance.) They’ve also added production dates to eight varieties already recalled for Cats and for Dogs.

Finding it impossible to believe the F.D.A. and Menu Foods when they say there won’t be anymore recalls? Me too.

You can find out much more on the recall on my Pet Food Recall Archive Page.

The pet food recall has reached as far as South Africa with Royal Canin South Africa and Hill’s Pet Nutrition’s South African subsidiary both recalling pet foods, but not before nineteen pets died. Sadly, two dogs in Puerto Rico have died from eating melamine contaminated dog treats.

You can find out much more on the recall on my Pet Food Recall Archive Page.

Natural Balance believes rice protein concentrate may be contaminated with melamine and is the source of the problems with the Venison products in their recall. Those products are:

• Venison & Brown Rice Wet Dog Food and Dry Dog Food
• Venison & Brown Rice Dog Treats
• Venison & Green Pea Dry Cat Food

These varieties do not contain wheat gluten, but rice protein was just added recently. So now one of the questions is what brands also used rice protein concentrate? The company that sold the rice protein concentrate sold it to five pet food companies. Only Diamond Pet Foods, who does the packing for some of Natural Balance’s products, was revealed as one of those five companies. (Diamond Pet Foods own products do not contain rice protein concentrate.) I’d sure like to know who the other four companies were that bought the same rice protein concentrate.

You can find out much more on the recall on my Pet Food Recall Archive Page.