Dry Pet Food Recall
If you buy Pedigree dry pet food, or store brand dry pet food, you need to check this out.
Mars Petcare US Announces Nationwide Voluntary Recall
Franklin, Tennessee (September 12, 2008)—Today, Mars Petcare US announced a voluntary recall of products manufactured at its Everson, Pennsylvania facility. The pet food is being voluntarily recalled because of potential contamination with Salmonella serotype Schwarzengrund. This voluntary recall only affects the United States.
…Even though no direct link between product produced at Everson and human or pet illness has been made, Mars Petcare US is taking precautionary action to protect pets and their owners by announcing a voluntary recall of all products produced at the Everson facility beginning February 18, 2008 until July 29, 2008 when we stopped production.
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The products listed below are made at our Everson facility on behalf of a variety of retailers. All code dates, with the exception of PEDIGREE®, are listed in a similar format as noted below:
Consumers should look for “17” as the first two digits of the second line. Sample:
Best By Feb 18 09
17 1445 1For PEDIGREE® the Everson code date format is as follows:
Consumers should look for “PAE” on the bottom line – the sixth, seventh and eighth digits. Sample:
PEDIGREE ® Small Crunchy Bites
Best Before 02/2009
808G1PAE01 12:00
5 comments
mars — is this the candy company? am i going to have to stop eating entirely?
AFAIK, they aren’t associated, but they make dry food for the Mal-Wart empire, so you know they are evil. It’s both dog and cat food under a dozen different brand names.
i buy the more expensive brands for my critters, but they’ve had their problems in the past too.
as for more expensive, i sat down and worked it out for some of the brands of dog food that were available several yeas ago. turned out that on a per calories basis, the expensive brands were only a tiny bit more expensive. the cheap brands were putting so much useless filler into their foods that it took humongous amounts to keep from starving the poor beasties.
i haven’t done any recalculating since then, but early on, i switched to the primo food for economic reasons, and the dogs have all lived to be 15+ years [the present one is pushing 13 with no signs of slowing down] and cats making it to 20 years, give or take, so i haven’t seen any reason to change. plus, i feed them all lots of people food, which is what pets ate [along with whatever they could catch on their own] for generations.
i’ve often wondered what all the food giants would do with their leftover scraps if they didn’t have all us pet owners to market them to.
There are always trade offs when you make the decisions. I buy multiple kinds, because I feed different populations. The indoor cats would balloon on the rice based food I cook for the ferals because of all of the fat that I include like vegetable oil and any fat left over from “human food”, like the chicken fat and skins.
If they like it and eat it, I’ll give it to them.
BETTER FOODS TO FEED YOUR PET AND WHY
If your dog has diarrhea mixing rice with their food and even some unflavored Metamucil helps to firm up stool. Pedigree is really not a very good food to begin with. Neither is IAMs Beneful Purina or any of the other foods you have usually heard of. The first several ingredients are usually corn (we know what happens when our body gets corn, we poop it out and don’t use it, same with dogs) meat by products (the take the meat off of whatever it is and you get the bones, feathers, coat, feet, beaks, etc) and white or brewers rice (no nutritional value, just a filler) because of this our dogs need to eat more to get the nutrients they need and poop a lot more too. Also…science diet and eukanuba are not very good foods either. They used to be but they were bought out by other companies who, to save money, changed the ingredients to fillers and by products. These foods cost about the same as the all naturals foods and you are getting pedigree quality food. You can check all the ingredients yourself. Stay away from the first 3 ingredients being corn, by products of any kind, and white or brewer’s rice. Go for foods with chicken, chicken meal, or any meats that don’t have by product after them, and BROWN rice. These are good foods. Try going to a specialty pet store and ask about a better food. Precise, Royal Canin, and Verus are all really good foods. When you look at the ingredients they will be along the lines of Chicken, brown rice (the only rice with nutritional value for dogs), and usually another protein source such as chicken meal (chicken meal is just dehydrated chicken, very good) your dogs will eat much less of the food so even though it cost a bit more you go through less food and it ends up saving you money. They also poop less, live longer, and are overall healthier. I have four shih tzus and I feed them Royal Canin dry food. 10lbs of that food last us over a month. 4 adults dogs eating only 10lbs of food between the 4 of them is pretty good! These foods are also all natural and organic so they are never involved in any recalls; you know your food is always safe. Go to your local pet store and ask about these brands (Precise, Royal Canin, Verus, Wellness, California Natural, Innova, Canidae, Merrik) many stores, such as Pets Plus, will even give you your money back for the dog food if your dog doesn’t like it and has programs such as buy 10 bags get your 11th free. It’s worth a try and trust me your dogs will love it.