Menu Foods recall expands

Here's a sad story about a kitty that died from eating a food that had been tainted by cross contamination; very sad[&o]; [linkhttp://www.petconnection.com/blog/2007/05/07/pet-food-recall-a-vet-speaks/]http://www.petconnection.com/blog/2007/05/07/pet-food-recall-a-vet-speaks/[/link];
 
Dr. Murray took the loss of one cat particularly hard:
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“Scooby was 6 months old, a beautiful big purry healthy guy. When the recall began, his mom, who is a physician, went over the lists with a fine-toothed comb and continued to do so throughout the recall. He became acutely ill April 10, well into the recall. She was positive she was not feeding recalled food. He was so acutely ill that when he first presented his creatinine was just above normal but it skyrocketed over the next few days, on aggressive fluid therapy. On ultrasound a few days into it, he had moderate-severe hydronephrosis with bilateral ureteral obstruction…but I couldn#%92t see stones which seemed odd. As he was worsening rapidly, we took him to surgery to see if the obstructions could be relieved. The surgeons were mystified because his proximal ureters were dilated but they couldn#%92t see why. His mom decided to euthanize him on the table.
What happened to Scooby?
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“On necropsy, the pathologist found that his ureters were stuffed with the melamine-type crystals. We were horrified because he wasn#%92t eating recalled food. I went through all the foods he was eating with his mom over and over, and narrowed it down to 2 foods I felt were the most likely culprits (other flavors of the same line of foods had been recalled, etc.). I notified the 2 companies, one of whom took 2 days to call me back despite repeated attempts. I also notified the FDA. That was April 23. (His necropsy unfortunately took 10 days to come back). I didn#%92t really get any sense that the 2 companies were going to do anything about the info, especially as he was eating several foods. One of those 2 foods was just recalled; it was one of the ones recalled due to “cross-contamination at the Menu plant. It did not contain wheat gluten. Supposedly. What a tragic little story.
“I hope people realize that this ‘cross-contamination#%92 isn#%92t just some hypothetical possibility; Scooby is dead from whatever ‘cross-contamination#%92 means. That#%92s a lot of cross-contamination.”
 
I wonder if Menu Foods would have found out about the cross contamination if tragedies like this one hadn't been reported?[/blockquote][/blockquote]

Day by day,,,things just keep getting sicker!