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On a related note, news is now surfacing that this toxic food situation was known about for at least a month before the information became public. The FDA received the first reports of kidney failure and deaths as early as February 20th, 2007. Menu Foods, the company responsible for initiating the recall, started testing the food on laboratory animals on February 27, 2007. This has infuriated many pet owners and those in the animal care industry who wonder what took so long to tell the public and why did additional animals have to die needlessly to "prove" the food was toxic?
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Related Reading
- FDA Press Release: Recall of Pet Foods Manufactured by Menu Foods, Inc.
If your pet has become sick or died as the result of eating tainted food, you may lodge a formal complaint with the FDA office in your state (US). - "Pet deaths prompt food recall"
From The Canadian Press
In this news report, it is reported that the Menu Foods company began receiving complaints about their food via the customer service phone lines as early as December 2006.
- "Tests of pet food killed 1 in 6"
From the Toronto Star
The FDA reports that it received the first complaints on this issue on February 20th.
- "Doctors Caution Thousands More Pet Deaths Expected"
ABC News - "Menu Foods Tests Dish Out Cruelty And Suffering"
From PETA.org - "Dog and cat food companies that don’t test on animals"
From PETA.org - "Menu Foods: We Knew About this for a Month"
From New Cat City Blog - "Pet Owners File Class Action Suit"
From CNN.com
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Comments
Two of my pets died this weekend. One was kindney failure but he also had heartworms. The little one that was healthy before Jan.14, 2007 died from pnuemonia, both dogs ate OL’roy dog foods. When I first took the little one to vet cause she had trouble raising & walking they thought she had back problems. It wasn’t until she had difficulty breathing that thay did blood work right after the recall. Could her death be caused from the poison? Her sympoms varied from fever, bloody lose stool, excessive drinking and urination, weight loss, and pnemonia. She was sick from Jan.14 -March 25,2007. All the symptoms took place over this period of time! Could it have been caused by the poison???
On March 1st. our four-year-old housecat developed kidney failure. This was confirmed by a blood test and ultrasound. There was no evidence of plant material in his vomit and no high risk plants in our house to begin with. The only possible causes we could come up with were either something congenital or something in its diet. For the past four years we have only fed our cat Prescription t/d. As it turns out, this food, although not currently on the recall list, is made by the same manufacture as Science Diet, which is on the list. I’ve contacted the manufacture, Hills, and also contacted the FDA. It seems to me that this food, which I still have a lot of, should be tested as well. What else should I do to push this idea? t/d is not as well-known as Science Diet, Eukanuba or Iams so perhaps fewer people would have reported an incident with it. There is always the possibility that the timing of our cat’s illness could just be coincidental, but I’d like to know for sure.