Archive for April, 2007

Rice Protein in Pet Food Recall

Thursday, April 19th, 2007

A new day has dawned, and HELLO, we have another contamination.  If you haven’t heard yet, melamine is thought to have contaminated rice protein concentrate.

  “This has exposed that the safety standards for pet foods are not in place in any significant way and the kind of drumbeat, day after day, of recalls has shaken consumers’ confidence in the pet food industry’s adherence to food safety standards,” said Wayne Pacelle, president and chief executive officer of the Humane Society of the United States.  
 

The tricky part now is that while both ingredients are coming from China, they are coming from different businesses and different makers, too.  And according to an Associated Press news story - the Chinese are not cooperating.

Menu Foods has updated their website again - you can see the latest press release on the updated products here or visit the dog page of Menu Foods for full recall information

This list is pretty extensive - and includes more than 50 different brands now. If you haven’t checked your brands online today - you need to do it. And if you want to make your own dog food - check out our make dog food home page.  You can also get to the video that we have online from there, too.