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Menu Foods Kansas plant now contaminated 4/10/07

Posted : 4/10/2007 7:23:12 PM

From another forum:

" They just announced their Kansas pet food plant is also contaminated . And will be shut down for cleaning (decontamination).

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chewbecca

Posted : 4/10/2007 7:40:08 PM

Oh, you have GOT to be kidding me.
This just keeps getting more and more horrible.

sooner

Posted : 4/10/2007 7:51:57 PM

The Kansas plant was implicated from the beginning. Kansas and New Jersey. The new plant is Canadian (Streetsville, Ontario), because they received a wheat gluten shipment from the KS plant. The Canadian facility apparently produced the 3 oz canned cat food being discussed in a couple of other threads.

Luvntzus

Posted : 4/11/2007 1:16:21 AM

If the whole plant is contaminated then does that mean any canned foods that came out of there aren't safe? Like the byNature cans that I bought.... [

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sandra_slayton

Posted : 4/11/2007 1:21:25 AM

In the beginning it was said this was going to just go from bad to worse, and that is exactly right. Seems every time we turn around more is coming out. Like you, i am starting to get worried that just because my dog food doesn't contain wheat gluten, how can i be really sure it is safe. How many places bought this stuff from a place who bought it from a place who bought it from a place who bought from a place who bought it from China.

hank fang

Posted : 4/11/2007 1:28:44 AM

ORIGINAL: Luvntzus

If the whole plant is contaminated then does that mean any canned foods that came out of there aren't safe? Like the byNature cans that I bought.... []

I bought some by Nature cans as well, since it doesn't contain the wheat gluten I think we are safe.

sooner

Posted : 4/11/2007 1:33:49 AM

According to an e-mail I got from them today, By Nature isn't made by Menu.

glenmar

Posted : 4/11/2007 5:11:25 AM

Again, have they absolutely determined without ANY doubt that it is the wheat gluton that is the problem? I mean, they've come up with TWO things that are supposedly IN the wheat gluton and yet.........

If the plant has to be shut down for "cleaning" I'd not be using anything that came out of the plant, regardless of whose label is on it. Stuff spreads. There is cross contamination......JMHO

dogslife

Posted : 4/11/2007 6:20:13 AM

If the plant has to be shut down for "cleaning" I'd not be using anything that came out of the plant, regardless of whose label is on it. Stuff spreads. There is cross contamination......JMHO

Unless there is more than one thing wrong with the food, vets would be able to address if it were say a fungal, bacterial or virus kind of contamination. If it were one of those, pets would be exhibiting symptoms of infection, initially?

The wheat gluten thing makes sense because the kidney tissue death would not show obvious traces of the fertilizer chemical, as it is metabolized by the animal, it is altered into urea. Which in excess amounts will cause kidney tissue death, over time.

noblewoman

Posted : 4/11/2007 8:32:15 AM

Will this will ever end? [:@] There had better be a serious overhaul regarding the pet food industry regarding how, where, and with what products they are using to make the food.
For now I'm sticking with Canidae exclusively until this whole thing is over. I'm too paranoid to go with any other food right now. [

] It seems like every few days something new is added.

sooner

Posted : 4/11/2007 8:52:07 AM

ORIGINAL: papillon806

From another forum:

They just announced their Kansas pet food plant is also contaminated . And will be shut down for cleaning (decontamination)

The Kansas plant was known from day one. The Canadian plant is the new one. I couldn't find in those links where it said anything about either plant being shut down for cleaning, though all three of them (New Jersey too) should be if there's a chance any affected material went through their machines.

jessies_mom

Posted : 4/12/2007 8:11:49 AM

Menu Foods is saying that the delay in the latest recall was caused by a clerical error; [linkhttp://www.usatoday.com/money/industries/2007-04-12-pet-food-thur-usat_N.htm?csp=34]http://www.usatoday.com/money/industries/2007-04-12-pet-food-thur-usat_N.htm?csp=34[/link];

Humans are not perfect. Someone made a mistake," spokesman Sam Bornstein said in an e-mailed response to questions from USA TODAY. "We were shocked."

Menu's failure to discover the intra-company shipment sooner surprised foodmaking consultants. They say companies such as Menu typically keep good records on products and ingredients but that some companies are better than others. Still, missing such an event "shouldn't happen," says consultant Sakharam Patil of S.K. Patil & Associates in Munster, Ind. "They have the responsibility of controlling all the ingredients going in their products."