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Please take care by Gini~. The Pet Food issue in North America continues to unfold. Last night Alpo dog food, a cuts and gravy style food, was recalled. Before that Hills recalled the first DRY food when they recalled their prescription cat diet m/d. There are now two reasons for the recalled food and both are tied to wheat gluten. The first is aminopterin which Cornell found. The second is melamine, a contaminate discovered by the FDA. There is much I could say but the most important thing is to be careful with the food you give your dogs and cats. They don't really know for certain how the wheat gluten is killing our pets. FDA did NOT find aminopterin in the wheat gluten.
Please continue to watch the recalls and take care with your pet food choices. The Alpo recall came out last night around midnight. Since I was up most of the night and I have a google alert set up for it, I noticed it. If you want to keep track of what is happening, one easy thing you can do is go to itchmo! and click the 'Get Recall Alerts' button to be put on their email list.
UPDATE: 9:24 tonight I got the email from ichmo! about another new recall. Here's the scoop:
"ANOTHER RECALL: Ol’Roy Wet Foods, Jerky Treats, Gravy Train Beef Sticks and Pounce Meaty Morsels"
Del Monte has announced that their Ol'Roy brand wet food, as well as
the other brands have been made using the tainted wheat gluten also
used by Menu Foods. The other brands are: Jerky Treats, Gravy Train
Beef Sticks, Pounce Meaty Morsels, Dollar General, and Happy Tails.
They are now recalling their food.
More here:
www.itchmo.com/read/another-recall-ol-roy-del-monte_20070331
Will the Menu Foods recall never end? Will somebody please evaluate the necessity of nearly every major brand of pet food using the same source? Will this be necessary again? Probably. We are terribly slow learners. And it's only a matter of time before something similar happens to humans... if the spinach recall wasn't enough to scare you, ask yourself if you know exactly where your millions of corn products come from...
...likely you don't. And neither do I.
Okay. I'm going to give myself nightmares just before bed. Not always a good idea to breeze through the internets just before bed, but there you go. Too late.
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