Pet Food Recall - please read

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Not the topic for a horse list, but I know many of you have loved pets, it's a weekend, and as I am a vet, I think you need to know this :-) This subject has also been on the national news this weekend.

There is a massive pet food recall in progress for some products, from many different brands of food. The reason for the recall is precautionary.

Some animals (9 cats and 1 dog) have become ill or died of renal failure, and one commonality (aside from not being able to find other, more common or obvious causes for these illnesses) is that all the animals ate "cuts and sauce" type foil-pouched or canned foods that originated at Menufoods.com during a certain time period.

The manufacturer has checked, and during that time period, for the foods in question, they were receiving wheat gluten from a new supplier.

So the manufacturer is voluntarily recalling certain products until more definitive answers regarding the food safety are known.

There is ongoing research from sources outside the manufacturer looking aggressively at this (Cornell, Antech, etc), and so far nothing has been found wrong with any of the foods in question.

However, there is a recall of all these foods, and advice is not to feed these foods until more is known. There are many, many common brands on this list. Please read the list and check product codes for your pet foods, if you feed any "cuts and gravy" type canned or foil-pouched foods to your dogs and cats.

Please see the FDA website www.FDA.gov There is a press release, a list of brands and types of foods affected, and product codes, on the front page.