Dog foods tainted ...

Most of the people i know who feed dry nutro and iams, are holding off from feeding it until they see whether the problems cross over to the dry also.
 
 

I dont' think the "recipes" are the same for the wet and dry foods. Besides, they are produced in different facilities (or a different part of the plant) for the most part.
 
 

ORIGINAL: terryl

I am thinking that if Nutro and these other so-called "premium" brands of wet and wet packet foods are tainted, then the dry food is bad also. It probably all comes out of the same batch, just some is dry and some is wetted.

I would be leery of any foods made by those characters.

Terry, Max and Brinksie

 
FYI, Nutro is not a premium brand. It never has been, and never will be. Premium brands cannot be bought at supermarkets or PetCoSmartWalCost-type places. Even some "Indy" type shops of the less-informed unfortunately carry Nutro, which is very misleading. [8|]

    I agree with kennel_keeper; wet and dry foods have different formulas and are not made in the same area in the plant; I'm pretty sure Nutro makes its own dry food and menu foods makes the canned. I don't feed the Nutro brand because of Jessie's food allergies and I homecook the wet portion of her food, but if you visit their website and read the ingredients of the dry and wet foods, you'll see the formulas are a lot different. Nutro is a good company and trys to make a reliable, safe product.

FYI, Nutro is not a premium brand. It never has been, and never will be. Premium brands cannot be bought at supermarkets or PetCoSmartWalCost-type places. Even some "Indy" type shops of the less-informed unfortunately carry Nutro, which is very misleading. [8|]

I don't agree at all to this.
BUT no matter,,,,I believe this Menu company is making wet food for tons of companies...and it just happens that Nutro is one of them...also Hills Science Diet...Purina Mighty dog...along with many of the others that were listed. It is only the wet food that in the problem, and only the ones listed. 
Hopefully soon we'll find out what the problem is with all of this food.

Ditto Dyan.

Go to this article by Slate Mag and you will see that the batches are the same at first, then separated out later.

http://www.slate.com/id/2162164/fr/rss/

ORIGINAL: jessies_mom

    I agree with kennel_keeper; wet and dry foods have different formulas and are not made in the same area in the plant; I'm pretty sure Nutro makes its own dry food and menu foods makes the canned. I don't feed the Nutro brand because of Jessie's food allergies and I homecook the wet portion of her food, but if you visit their website and read the ingredients of the dry and wet foods, you'll see the formulas are a lot different. Nutro is a good company and trys to make a reliable, safe product.

Look at this article and you will see you are wrong.

http://www.slate.com/id/2162164/fr/rss/

ORIGINAL: Ullr

ORIGINAL: terryl

I am thinking that if Nutro and these other so-called "premium" brands of wet and wet packet foods are tainted, then the dry food is bad also. It probably all comes out of the same batch, just some is dry and some is wetted.

I would be leery of any foods made by those characters.

Terry, Max and Brinksie

FYI, Nutro is not a premium brand. It never has been, and never will be. Premium brands cannot be bought at supermarkets or PetCoSmartWalCost-type places. Even some "Indy" type shops of the less-informed unfortunately carry Nutro, which is very misleading. [8|]

Okay, I'll bite. Why am I paying $50.00 a bag at Flagstaff Petsmart? (Other than I am gullible?)

What do you use?

BTW, I cooked real human food, hamburger, bacon, eggs, brown rice and eggs for my dogs since this happened. If the stuff I buy at the human grocery store is tainted, at least we all die together.

ORIGINAL: terryl

ORIGINAL: jessies_mom

   I agree with kennel_keeper; wet and dry foods have different formulas and are not made in the same area in the plant; I'm pretty sure Nutro makes its own dry food and menu foods makes the canned. I don't feed the Nutro brand because of Jessie's food allergies and I homecook the wet portion of her food, but if you visit their website and read the ingredients of the dry and wet foods, you'll see the formulas are a lot different. Nutro is a good company and trys to make a reliable, safe product.

Look at this article and you will see you are wrong.

http://www.slate.com/id/2162164/fr/rss/

Menu Foods doesn't make any dry foods. It's a wet food only plant. "Menu Foods describes itself as a “leading North American manufacturer of private-label wet pet food products, selling its products to supermarket retailers, mass merchandisers, pet specialty retailers, and other retail and wholesale outlets.”"

ORIGINAL: sooner

ORIGINAL: terryl

ORIGINAL: jessies_mom

   I agree with kennel_keeper; wet and dry foods have different formulas and are not made in the same area in the plant; I'm pretty sure Nutro makes its own dry food and menu foods makes the canned. I don't feed the Nutro brand because of Jessie's food allergies and I homecook the wet portion of her food, but if you visit their website and read the ingredients of the dry and wet foods, you'll see the formulas are a lot different. Nutro is a good company and trys to make a reliable, safe product.

Look at this article and you will see you are wrong.

[linkhttp://www.slate.com/id/2162164/fr/rss/]http://www.slate.com/id/2162164/fr/rss/[/link]

Menu Foods doesn't make any dry foods. It's a wet food only plant. "Menu Foods describes itself as a “leading North American manufacturer of private-label wet pet food products, selling its products to supermarket retailers, mass merchandisers, pet specialty retailers, and other retail and wholesale outlets.”"

They make dry food too. I would quote their website but it's not allowed here, and someone might think I am promoting this company.

Please do quote it. Quotes like that are allowed.

I'm going to use this as just one example:

Nutro Chicken & Oatmeal Dry: Chicken Meal, Rice Flour, Ground Rice, Rice Bran, Poultry Fat (preserved with mixed Tocopherols, a source of natural Vitamin E), Oatmeal, Soybean Oil, Sunflower Oil (preserved with mixed Tocopherols, a source of natural Vitamin E), Natural Flavor, Dried Beet Pulp, Potassium Chloride, Dried Egg Product, Dried Kelp (source of Iodine), Choline Chloride, Vitamin E Supplement, Zinc Sulfate, Ferrous Sulfate, Ascorbic Acid (source of Vitamin C), Biotin, Niacin, Garlic Flavor, Manganese Oxide, Calcium Pantothenate, Vitamin B12 Supplement, Riboflavin Supplement (source of Vitamin B2), Vitamin A Supplement, Glucosamine Hydrochloride, Thiamine Mononitrate (source of Vitamin B1), Pyridoxine Hydrochloride (source of Vitamin B6), Chondroitin Sulfate, Vitamin D3 Supplement, Menadione Sodium Bisulfite Complex (source of Vitamin K activity), Calcium Iodate, Folic Acid

Nutro Chicken & Oatmeal Canned: Chicken Broth, Chicken, Chicken Liver, Beef Liver, Ground Rice, Oatmeal, Rice Gluten, Dried Egg Product, Guar Gum, Beet Pulp, Brewers Dried Yeast, Sunflower Oil, Potassium Chloride, Carrageenan, Sodium Ascorbate (Source of Vitamin C), Ferrous Sulfate, Choline Chloride, Vitamin E Supplement, Zinc Oxide, Copper Sulfate, Vitamin A Supplement, Thiamine Mononitrate, Sodium Selenite, Vitamin B12 Supplement, Vitamin D3 Supplement, Potassium Iodide, Biotin, Riboflavin Supplement

They have few ingredients in common, and couldn't share the same base "glop".

What was explained yesterday by I believe Papillion, that the only food that is included in the recall is CHUNKY and that wheat gluten is used to bind that meat together to make the CHUNKS... so therefore no other food in involved.