Category: Pet Food Recall

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.

Pets Need A Voice Too is organizing a nationwide protest and memorial march for Saturday, April 28th. Check out this interview with the organizer of the march, Jen Hoeflein.

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

Natural Balance has received complaints about their Venison & Brown Rice Dog Food and their Venison & Green Pea Cat Food. Their site says not to feed these varieties to your pets. (via PetConnection.com)

Natural Balance is one of the brands I listed that I trust, so this is disturbing. I’m glad to see that they didn’t wait to find contaminants before they posted a warning, but it doesn’t look like they’ve made a press release.

Update March 17th: Natural Balance Issues Press Release.

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

Scientists at Cornell University’s School of Veterinary Medicine believe they have found a second contaminant in the wheat gluten and the urine of affected animals.

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

Sadly, but not surprisingly, Banfield, The Pet Hospital, saw a 30% increase in cases of kidney failure from early December through early March, while the Veterinary Information Network estimates 5,000–10,000 pets have gotten sick and 1,000–2,000 have died.

Petconnection.com has 3,730 deaths reported by pet owners as of March 10th—these are self-reported and is not considered an official total yet.

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