Dog Food Information

 

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PetFood Industry Newsletter

Diamond Dog Food Recall!

Israel: Super-Sol silently pulls possibly poisonous dog food

2/2006 News Alert: Royal Canin Dog Food Recall!

12/21/05 - 1/19/06 -- FDA Plant Inspection Report (Form 483)

2/1/06 Diamond Pet Foods: Corn in dog food was not tested Firm concedes error after FDA report

1/30/06 Pet food company failed to properly test corn, FDA report says

1/18/06 Family Says Dog Died From Eating Recalled Pet Food

1/17/06 Vet: Toxic pet food caused dog's death

1/16/06 Family loses dog to tainted dog food

Woman Fears Contaminated Dog Food Made it to Kansas

1/7/06 Tainted pet food kills a local dog

MSNBC: "Diamond Pet Foods officials began noticing a high incidence of contaminated corn deliveries at its Gaston, S.C., manufacturing facility in September — three months before the company issued a recall of potentially poisonous dog food"

January 6, 2006 - -Dog Deaths Surpass 100 Despite Toxic Pet Food Recall

December 30, 2005 - FDA Investigation of Diamond Pet Food Finds Some Product Exported

Cornell animal hospital caring for dogs poisoned by contaminated commercial food that has killed several pets

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August 2005 - International Union of Food Science and Technology Newsletter "Venezuela by Prof Mar’a Soledad Tapia, Correspondent

The country is still in shock after the panic over the health of our pets (more than 400 deaths have been reported unofficially in the press) generated by the Purina Venezuela aflatoxicosis outbreak. However, Venezuelans, not even the scientific community, have official information on the causal agent other than the one presented in Purina’s initial public statement of past February: “analysis revealed the presence of mold-produced toxins in a limited number of affected lots, which despite being limited and identified, drove Purina to recall all of its products."

February 26, 2004 - Complaint Says Fido Ate ‘Go! Natural,’ Went to Doggie Heaven

November 2003 - ALERT TO PET OWNERS -- RECALL OF PETCUREAN GO! NATURAL PET FOOD

 

December 2002 - FDA ISSUES SAFETY GUIDANCE ON THE USE OF RAW MEAT
FOR PET DIETS

 

March 2002 - Food and Drug Administration/Center for Veterinary Medicine

Report on the risk from pentobarbital in dog food

 

September 1999 - CANADIANS ISSUE WARNING ABOUT DOG TREATS

November 1998 - RURAL TEXANS MOURN DOGS KILLED BY TAINTED FOOD
Washington Post by Paul Duggan

"NEW BRAUNFELS, Tex. -- More than 50 types of dry dog food produced at Doane Products Co. a plant Brentwood, Tenn., in July and August are, according to this story, being recalled this week from stores throughout Texas and in parts of Louisiana. A Doane spokesman was cited as saying that the batch confirmed to be fatal was sold only in Central Texas, much of it in and near New Braunfels, a farming community 30 miles north of San Antonio. As many as 30 dogs have died since September, casualties of livers poisoned by a corn mold."

October 1995 - FDA Recall: Nature's Recipe Pet Food