Melamine in NB?

[Furryland]

This is all such fun.. yeah right

Fortunately, my cats who did have the venison as a food option seem fine, as do the small dogs who did eat a tin of the wet venison

I still have the UP kibbles though, being this is a new food i'm kinda stuck and will have to transition onto something else, as it is i am offering the cats wellness indoor since i know they liked it in the past.. my dogs, i'll probably try some canidae since they adore the wet.

I have been going over labels to see who else has RPC and i did find Nutro natural choice complete care adult cat to contain this ingredient however i did not find it in the comparable dog kibble or the max adult, i haven't checked all varieties though and have not yet checked the max cat styles.

I know my bag of solid gold catz n flocken doesn't have it nor does my bag of fromms duck ala veg, and the wellness indoor health doesn't either.. nor does the wet tin of dog chicken & rice canidae.

This is really scary since their are other companies that received this source of contaminated product, so obviously more recalls are coming and more ill pets :sad:

I cannot believe in less than 2mths i have come -this close- to killing all my pets.

[OntarioGreys]

Originally Posted by poodletalk

It was just "luck" (I don't know if that's the right word) the tainted wheat glutten wasn't in the humane food chain.

http://wjz.com/business/finance_story_103015618.html

Even if it was we would not get hit as hard as pets as we eat a variety of stuff, it could have be used to make a can of gravy(not the main part of the meal for us and we might use once a week or to form the meatballs in Beef-a-roni so again enough there to affect us unless eating nothing but day after day for every meal, we may feel a touch ill possibly and never associate it to something we ate

If it occured in babyfoods or formulas then there would be huge problems

[stergeR]

Originally Posted by rainbow

You right....the company wasn't named before and as far as I know Natural Balance said they got it from a U.S. company. Perhaps they didn't know that the U.S. company imported it from China.

So, now there is four other compnies out there with the same batch of rice protein concentrate. I wonder how long before we find out who they are?

oh my god..the list goes on and on, i really hope it will stop soon! :sad:

by the way, any news on which are the other four companies yet?

[poodletalk]

I just came back from my animal foodstore, they pulled the whole Natural Balance product line even though two products were effected. The Store Owner doesn't want to take any chances

[geisha]

Last week I was browsing the dog food aisles and almost picked up a bag of NB Venison to try on my senior dog (just for something different) but I was in a hurry and decided to just go with what I normally buy. My heart goes out to those affected by this.

[geisha]

Originally Posted by technodoll

hmmm petfood companies have up to 6 months** to change a bag (or can or box) to reflect what is really inside... so a recipe can change, but the labeling follows later. tricky... and dangerous!! are you SURE your pet isn't eating a dangerous ingredient?

**someone please correct me if I am wrong. i did read this somewhere, just don't have time to find the source right now.

Technodoll according to the dogfoodproject.com pet food companies donot have up to 6 months to change the label. They can use the old bag and put a sticker on top of the old ingredients listing to reflect what's inside now.

[Prin]

According to the dog food companies, they have 6 months to change the bag. We found out this summer the hard way when a lot of our dogs got sick because of a sudden unmarked change to Solid Gold Wolf King.