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Insider Tip Says Corn Gluten and Rice Gluten May Also Contain Melamine
2007-04-18 02:49:00 Breaking, breaking news… A top holistic brand, Natural Balance, just voluntarily recalled four products and confirmed that they found melamine in a US-supplied rice gluten. I’m guessing corn, wheat, and rice gluten providers have long known a “dirty industry secret” of making protein content appear higher and just finally got caught. read more | digg ... More About: Dogs , Cats , Pets , Pet Food , Corn
BREAKING NEWS: Natural Balance Recall Expands to Canned Food and Treats
2007-04-18 01:47:00 BREAKING NEWS: Natural Balance Recall Expands to Canned Food and Treats April 17th, 2007 Itchmo has confirmed with Natural Balance that their recall has expanded and now covers the following items for all dates: * Venison and Brown Rice Treats for Dogs (New today) * Venison and Brown Rice Canned Formula for Dogs (New today) * Venison and Brown Rice ... More About: News , Cats , Breaking News
T.W. Enterprises Issues Nationwide Recall of Dog Chews Due to Salmonella Co
2007-04-18 00:10:00 Recall — Firm Press Release FDA posts press releases and other notices of recalls and market withdrawals from the firms involved as a service to consumers, the media, and other interested parties. FDA does not endorse either the product or the company. This listserv covers mainly Class I (life-threatening) recalls. A complete listing of ... More About: Dogs , Cats , Pets , Issues , Recall
Elizabeth Hodgkins, DVM Rebuttal to the Pet Food Industry [Recall] 4/12/07
2007-04-17 04:43:00 They have failed many times in the past, at least 3 times in the past 18 months. To say they are responsible for doing something is quite different from saying they are ACTUALLY doing it. The facts speak for themselves on this point. The pet food industry has breached the FDA?s mandate of them because ... More About: Food , Industry , Pet Food , Recall , Call
Tainted Food Kills 2 Dogs In Puerto Rico
2007-04-17 04:35:00 Two dogs in Puerto Rico died of kidney failure after eating dog biscuits that were among the 100-plus brands of pet foods and treats contaminated with an industrial chemical, a veterinarians’ group said Saturday. The Ol’Roy dog biscuits were purchased at Amigo, a supermarket chain owned by Bentonville, Ark.-based Wal-Mart Stores Inc., SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico Two dogs ... More About: Dogs , Food , Kill , Taint
Top 50 Network Marketing Companies Week 41
2007-04-17 03:52:00 The Top 50 Network Market ing Companies are ranked by Internet popularity on Alexa.com ? number of visitors to the company websites averaged over 3 months. Top recommended holistic pet food company, HealthyPetNet, a nine-year-old company, rose from 44 (Dec 06) to 27 (Apr 07) and is the ONLY pet food provider on the list. read more | ... More About: Network Marketing , Work
FDA Statement on Natural Balance (dry) - Voluntary Recall
2007-04-17 03:40:00 FDA State ment on Natural Balance FDA posts press releases and other notices of recalls and market withdrawals from the firms involved as a service to consumers, the media, and other interested parties. FDA does not endorse either the product or the company. This listserv covers mainly Class I (life-threatening) recalls. ... More About: Men , Recall
Imported Food Rarely Inspected
2007-04-16 20:41:00 Tainted food list makes you sick… [from China] frozen catfish tainted with illegal veterinary drugs, fresh ginger polluted with pesticides, melon seeds contaminated with a cancer-causing toxin and filthy dried dates, beans from Belgium, jalapenos from Peru, blackberries from Guatemala, baked goods from Canada, India and the Philippines read more | digg story More About: Food , Port , Rare , Imported , Import
Putting a Face to the 39,000 Pets: YouTube Memorial To A Special Love Dog
2007-04-16 06:38:00 My Love Dog Got Very Sick - Dr Said Kidney Failure I was just giving him a special food to show him how much I loved him… Warning: Don’t watch these at work. If you are an animal lover, they will break your heart. Thank you so much for sharing. I wept for your sweet ... More About: Youtube , Pets , Tube , Special
Menu Foods and ChemNutra, take a lesson from jetBlue
2007-04-16 06:26:00 When jetBlue passengers were stranded on the tarmac at JFK, frustrated customers who were stranded at terminals decided to post their own video accounts on YouTube. jetBlue?s founder, David Neeleman, responded by posting an apology on YouTube, which quickly became one of the top ten most viewed videos of the week. His apology received more ... More About: Food , Men , Take , Menu Foods
Product Recalls: Informing and Educating at a Crucial Time
2007-04-16 06:06:00 Google CPG Blog reports: When we published the weekly Google Zeitgeist for March 18-24, it was the first time in 6 years that a product recall has placed in the #1 and #2 positions in our top gaining searches. Clearly the pet food recall has sparked a tremendous interest in finding information online through ... More About: Cat , Time , Product , Recall , Info
Where?s the Beef? Top Five Ingredients in Major Pet Food Brands
2007-04-16 03:58:00 Teresa Holladay April 15, 2007 The Safe Pet Food Blog For those who are wondering how to choose a safe pet food, the Safe Pet Food Blog provides holistic criteria suggested by top veterinarians. There is no need to be fearful or to give up on trusting the entire pet food industry. If you will learn ... More About: Beef , Ingredients , Brand
For Those Who Keep Saying The Recall Was Only Of Wet Pet Food
2007-04-16 02:25:00 22 Brands of Dog Biscuits Are Added to Pet Food Recall New York Times By KATIE ZEZIMA Published: April 6, 2007 A recall of pet food tainted with melamine, a chemical used to make plastic products, has been widened to include 22 types of dog biscuits, the Food and Drug Administration said yesterday. The biscuits, made by Sunshine Mills Inc., ... More About: Pet Food , Keep , Those
Stormy v. Menu Foods, Update 4/13/07
2007-04-16 01:56:00 This story was DIGGED from Gather.com by Briane P. April 13, 2007 09:44 AM EDT This is a timely day for an update, as it’s Storm y’s birthday. (That’s not something I remember; I was reminded of it by the family.) We took Stormy, and Herman and Scruffy, in for checkups yesterday. The local news, WMTV, ... More About: Food , Men , Menu Foods , Update
A Call for Pet Food Recall Stories - Tell Us Yours
2007-04-15 16:32:00 I think we are past the denial and shock and anger stages. We now need to grieve. And maybe our grieving publicly will provoke further action and awareness. I’d like your audio stories. I have a toll-free message line, I’ll set it up with a special area for you to tell me your stories. ... More About: Food , Stories , Pet Food , Recall , Your
Is There a Safe, No Wheat Pet Food That You Recommend?
2007-04-15 15:46:00 While there are many great holistic brands (a listing of which can be found on The Safe Pet Food Blog), I do have a preference. I feed my pets Life’s Abundance and Instinctive Choice by Trilogy’s pet products company, HealthyPetNet. [None of these links to go me, by the way, and yes, I ... More About: Men , Pet Food , Wheat , Hat
Most Americans Would Rather Sit Tight Than Switch - Pet Food Recall News
2007-04-14 06:01:00 Marketing Daily says that 95% of America ns know of the pet food recall but only 11% switched foods and 2% switched stores. Considering that non-wheat, holistic brands represent only $400* million dollars of a $15* billion dollar industry, most people stayed on the same, wheat-included foods. Why? Because here’s what most people believe: In a pet-crazed ... More About: News , Food , Pet Food , Recall
Her Dog Vomited Blood After Eating Non-Recalled Pet Food
2007-04-14 05:30:00 Another heart-breaking story… This woman left me the comment and then called to explain that a man she knew had a dog who ate this food, it vomited blood, and died. But he didn’t tell everyone he knew, this was after the recall… so she fed her dog this food, as usual, and here ... More About: Food , Pet Food , Recall , Blood , Call
Safe Pet Food Blog posts for the weekend?
2007-04-13 15:26:00 Send me a comment via this post and let me know what topics concern you. I usually do my research on the weekend and queue up a dozen posts. This week, we had big news… Royal Canin’s recall extends into Cana and South Africa… The Chinese wheat supplier purchasing melamine… People are searching ... More About: Food , Post , Blog , Pet Food , Weekend
5 Dead pets from August 2006 to December 2006 PRIOR to the Recall
2007-04-13 15:07:00 The wheat or wheat gluten contamination is more than far-reaching. This snippet from a comment made on one of yesterday’s posts was so important, I want to bring it up to the front page so you can see it. It was made by EelKat I agree with your post here? I myself have started reading the ... More About: Pets , Recall , December 2006 , Dead , Call
Pet Food Recall in South Africa ? For Cryin? Out Loud, Are We THERE, Yet?
2007-04-13 04:56:00 Folks, it’s not about whether or not your cat food or dog food was on the recall list. It’s about WHEAT. The news last week was, well, looks like we didn’t get it all. Expand the dates a little more, then a little more. Oops, take ALL of those products off the shelves. The news this week ... More About: Food , Africa , South Africa , Pet Food , Recall
Pet Food Recall Reaches Into South Africa - Vets Choice Voluntary Recall
2007-04-13 04:15:00 A South Africa n news service is reporting that Royal Canin just voluntarily recalled a premium dog food product sold only in veterinary clinics. It is not clear to me whether or not this brand, Vets Choice, is sold only in South Africa . Royal Canin deserves kudos for this one. They immediately issued the recall ... More About: Food , Pet Food , Recall
Safe Pet Foods: No Wheat, No Corn, No By-Products, Organic
2007-04-12 15:53:00 I know you want some truly safe, wheat-free choices so I’ll tell you what I would feed my kitties if I could not get HealthyPetNet, which is available only online, via telephone order, or through independent distributors. (HealthyPetNet and Flint River Ranch are the only two I know of that do mail order, nice for ... More About: Products , Food , Product , Pet Food , Corn
Why We Need Menu Foods
2007-04-12 14:03:00 After looking at statistics and hearing people say they couldn’t afford to pay more than $7 per bag for the low-end store brands, I took a look at who is Men u Food s. And do you know what? They’ve had not a good track record, but a great track record. And they have a ... More About: Menu Foods , Foods , Need
?Mistake? caused delay in latest pet-food recall
2007-04-12 13:34:00 By Julie Schmit, USA TODAY Menu Food s said Wednesday that a “clerical error” caused the company to overlook that it shipped potentially contaminated wheat gluten from one of its U.S. plants to one in Canada. That apparently delayed the recall of some Canadian-made cat foods. “Humans are not perfect. Someone made a mistake,” spokesman Sam Bornstein ... More About: Pet Food , Recall , Take , Mist
Pet Industry Trends in 2007
2007-04-12 13:20:00 I wonder how these trends will change based on the dramatic shift from commercial pet foods to organic, wheat-free pet foods. I think these trends show that American pet owners do NOT consider their pets “property”, they consider them as family. The commercial pet food industry should not underestimate how angry pet parents are at ... More About: Industry , Trends , Ends , Trend
Cats and Dogs are Big Business
2007-04-12 12:58:00 How big? More money is spent on pet sales than in the Toy and Baby Food Industries combined. Here are some statistics you may find interesting, especially if you are wondering how many people will never forget this pet food recall. How many pet cats and dogs are in the United States? There are 90 Million Owned ... More About: Business , Dogs , Cats , Cat , Big Business
Chinese Wheat Gluten Firm Actively Seeking Melamine Purchases on Internet ?
2007-04-12 06:28:00 …In recent months, Xuzhou Anying appears to have posted several requests on online trading sites seeking to purchase large quantities of melamine. Clues to pet food recall traced to Chinese city By David Barboza Wednesday, April 11, 2007 Brought to you first by the Inter national Herald Tribune XUZHOU, China: U.S. investigators looking into the tainted pet food that ... More About: Internet , Melamine , Wheat
Menu Foods Voluntarily Recalls Additional Pet Food made with ChemNutra Whea
2007-04-11 16:51:00 Recall — Firm Press Release FDA posts press releases and other notices of recalls and market withdrawals from the firms involved as a service to consumers, the media, and other interested parties. FDA does not endorse either the product or the company. ... More About: Food , Men , Pet Food , Recall , With
Free Organic Pet Food Samples - No Wheat or Wheat Gluten
More articles from this author:2007-04-11 13:52:00 Have you seen this? HealthyPetNet is offering FREE SAMPLES of Life’s Abundance Dog or Cat Food and Instinctive Choice Canned Cat Food From the Trilogy/HealthyPetNet site Life?s Abundance Premium Cat Food and Dog Food is made using only fresh, human-quality ingredients. It is a nutrient dense food with high quality meat proteins ... More About: Samples , Free , Pet Food , Wheat 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 |
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