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Expanded Menu Foods Recall 

Menu Foods has expanded their recall list yet again.  A list of the new foods that have been added to the recall list can be found here.  You can also check the Menu Foods website that lists all the recalled foods.

Royal Canin Recall in Canada

Royal Canin Canada on Tuesday announced it was recalling some of its pet food after finding that one of its production lots contained contaminated wheat gluten.

The recall applies to the Medi-Cal Feline Dissolution Formula canned diet foods. The product was available only through prescription.

“After being repeatedly reassured by Menu Foods, as reinforced by FDA [U.S. Food and Drug Administration] public statements, that none of the contaminated wheat gluten had made its way to Canada, we were completely shocked to learn yesterday that this was not the case, and that this wheat gluten had been used in the Feline Dissolution Formula canned product” said Xavier Unkovic, CEO Royal Canin Canada, in a release.

You can read more about this story here.

 Nutro Recall

City of Industry, Calif. (April 10, 2007)– Earlier today, Menu Foods expanded its recall of wet pet food products to include additional wet pet foods suspected of containing melamine from Chinese supplied wheat gluten.

Given this new information and the confusion in the marketplace, Nutro has ordered ALL Nutro wet pouched and canned foods made with wheat gluten be removed from store shelves regardless of the date of production and asks pet owners to stop feeding those products to their pets. Nutro is taking this action even though the Menu Foods press release indicates that only certain dates of production at its plant were affected.

You can read the full press release on Nutro’s web site.