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Thursday, April 19, 2007 , mid-afternoon

Would you believe, more recalls?

Now that some rice protein imports have been confirmed to be contaminated with melamine, here’s a new addition to the pet food recall list: Blue Buffalo Spa Select Dry Formula for Kittens (only the bags marked “Best Used By Mar. 07 08 B”). On a related note, there have recently been pet food recalls in South Africa that I didn’t bother to mention. Tests now show that pets in South Africa are being killed by pet food which contains corn gluten contaminated with melamine, and the corn gluten is imported from China. So, my suggestion to everyone is to read every label of everything you feed, wet or dry, and be aware of wheat gluten, rice protein and corn gluten. Any of those ingredients have the potential to be contaminated, and there may still be unidentified companies which received contaminated rice protein concentrate. It will be very interesting to see which pet food manufacturers are left standing when all is said and done, because many have done irreparable damage to their reputations, imo.

This settles the issue for me—as soon as my current batch of canned cat and dog food is gone, I’m going to start cooking for my pets. It’s going to require probably one full day each week for cooking, and we may end up needing to buy an extra refrigerator/freezer for storage (because yeah, we can afford that right now), but I won’t have to worry. The hardest part will be figuring out what to feed my foster kittens, because I know 99% of them will go to families who buy Science Diet, et al, and just assume it’s safe.

When I post about things like this, my information comes from news sources like the Toronto Star and AP, but also from great blogs like Itchmo and PetConnection. I normally would never want to tread on another blog’s content, but this is a situation where the information should be posted in as many places as possible!

Posted by Leigh-Ann on 04/19 at 03:08 PM
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