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Menu Foods sues ChemNutra

Myra

Posted : 4/27/2007 7:20:18 AM

[linkhttp://news.moneycentral.msn.com/provider/providerarticle.aspx?feed=AP&Date=20070426&ID=6805644]http://news.moneycentral.msn.com/provider/providerarticle.aspx?feed=AP&Date=20070426&ID=6805644[/link]

Probably the first of many lawsuits that'll come from this whole mess.

jessies_mom

Posted : 4/27/2007 8:17:44 AM

This should probably be taken with a grain of salt but;
[linkhttp://www.itchmo.com/read/chemnutra-says-menu-foods-got-more-wheat-gluten-elsewhere_20070427]http://www.itchmo.com/read/chemnutra-says-menu-foods-got-more-wheat-gluten-elsewhere_20070427[/link];

Steve Miller, Chief Executive Officer of ChemNutra, said "We have cooperated and complied fully with FDA investigators both prior to and since being served with today's search warrant, and will continue to do so. We keep very good records which has made it relatively easy for the investigators to retrieve what they needed.” He added that, "We also now believe that our wheat gluten customer, Menu Foods, used significantly more wheat gluten monthly than we supplied to them, so we hope that Menu Foods will disclose its other sources to the FDA to ensure that any suspect product is quarantined.

"We placed our wheat gluten in quarantine as soon as Menu Foods informed us that it might have contributed to pet illnesses about which Menu Foods had apparently been aware for some time. We can only hope that Menu Foods has taken steps to ensure that this situation will not be allowed to spread even farther because of its inaction.”

sooner

Posted : 4/27/2007 3:17:29 PM

Menu and ChemNutra were searched by federal agents

http://www.usatoday.com/money/industries/2007-04-27-company-raided_N.htm?csp=34

sandra_slayton

Posted : 4/27/2007 3:52:12 PM

I bet 30 years ago, even less, this would have all been swept under the rug and most of us would never have know what had gone on. We would have assumed our dogs just died of a virus or something.

But today, thanks to the web and people who "know and tell" things get out and the companies have todo something, even if i is lie, they have to go public Then when caught in lie, they try to blame someone else.. etc.

Also today more people are fighing for the rights of dogs. They are not the old recliner to be replaced when broken.

And as a side, due to suits, national attention, etc, this may caused any human foods makers to think twice about trying to dupe the public into what their food is.