Pet Food Recall for Dog Foods and Cat Foods

Menu Foods
Menu Foods manufactures a billion containers of moist “meat and gravy” pet foods a year. They supply over 50 different grocery stores and pet companies with products. Although the products are manufactured by Menu, they are sold under labels of various labels, including Authority, Eukanuba, Iams, Mighty Dog, Nutro, Ol’Roy, President’s Choice, Pet Essentials, Publix, Science Diet, Western Family. Right about now, though, Menu Foods may be wishing they didn’t do as much business—There is a nationwide recall of their moist “meat and gravy” pet foods to prevent any more pets from dying of kidney failure.

Diamond Pet Food
Although this particular recall does not involve dry foods (kibble), dry foods are as likely as wet foods to be recalled. Recently Diamond Pet Food recalled kibble manufactured with corn contaminated with aflatoxin. As with the Menu Foods recall, the Diamond Pet Food recall included foods sold under the labels of other companies, including Country Value and Professional.

Wheat Gluten
The current pet food problem does not appear to be aflatoxin, but just what it is hasn’t been clarified. Some speculate that contaminated wheat gluten is behind the pet deaths. We do know that the pets are dying of kidney failure. We also know that few pets exposed to kidney toxins die quickly. Instead, it’s more common for these pets to experience progressive failure with lingering poor health.

We Never Blame Food
When a pet’s health progressively fails, it’s difficult to identify the problem—it could be age, poison, infection, cancer or many other problems. Few pet owners suspect the food. We don’t suspect food first because we don’t think of it, and second because we don’t believe pet food companies may not consider our pets’ health more important than profit. How mistaken we can be.

Signs & Symptoms of Kidney Failure
If a pet becomes ill due to one of the wet foods made by Menu Foods, what signs will you see that a pet is ill? Often, the most obvious signs of kidney failure are changes in how much a pet drinks and how much it urinates. If the failure is sudden (acute renal failure), pets don’t drink (adipsia) or urinate (anuria). They die within a few days. If the kidney failure is slowly progressive (chronic renal failure), pets may live for weeks or months with medical help. Rather than not drinking and not urinating, these pets urinate more than normal (polyuria) and drink more than normal (polydipsia). This condition is called PUPD.

In addition to PUPD, pets with kidney failure may be anemic, lethargic, and have a strong odor of urine from the breath and skin. Fluid collects in the body causing edematous, swollen limbs, a moist cough, and high blood pressure.

What Foods Are Involved?
To ensure your pet isn’t eating one of the contaminated products, check the attached list from the Menu Foods website of recalled dog foods and cat foods. All moist “meat and gravy” products from these companies are suspect, so return them to the store and get a refund.

Azmira, A Safe Food
For a food that is safe, choose something from Azmira. Azmira has rigid standards, uses only healthy, whole grains, meats and vegetables, and closely monitors its manufacturing practices. Azmira doesn’t purchase grains from the bottom of rail cars or the sweepings from the mill floor. It costs more for Azmira to use premium, human-quality ingredients and maintain stringent manufacturing standards, but these standards ensure safe, healthy, nourishing foods.

Azmira, A Delicious Food
If you think your pet is not going to enjoy eating anything healthy, you’re in for a surprise. I conducted food choice trials with many different breeds and compared several premium foods, Azmira was the favorite. Hands down. With Azmira, you can keep your pet healthy and happy.

Am I Paid to Promote Azmira?
No I don’t work for Azmira, nor do I make money when I mention them. I write about them because they produce excellent foods and are ethically run. Azmira foods are created by a passionate nutritionist and a team of pet health fanatics. Your pet should be lucky enough to eat what they make.

Dog Food Recall
Americas Choice, Preferred Pets
Authority
Award
Best Choice
Big Bet
Big Red
Bloom
Bruiser
Cadillac
Companion
Demoulas Market Basket
Eukanuba
Food Lion
Giant Companion
Great Choice
Hannaford
Hill Country Fare
Hy-Vee
Iams
Laura Lynn
Loving Meals
Meijers Main Choice
Mighty Dog Pouch
Mixables
Nutriplan
Nutro Max
Nutro Natural Choice
Nutro Ultra
Nutro
Ol'Roy Canada
Ol'Roy US
Paws
Pet Essentials
Pet Pride - Good n Meaty
Presidents Choice
Price Chopper
Priority
Publix
Roche Bros
Save-A-Lot
Schnucks
Shep Dog
Springsfield Prize
Sprout
Stater Bros
Total Pet
Western Family
White Rose
Winn Dixie
Your Pet


Cat Dog Food Recall

Americas Choice, Preferred Pets
Authority
Best Choice
Companion
Compliments
Demoulas Market Basket
Eukanuba
Fine Feline Cat
Food Lion
Foodtown
Giant Companion
Hannaford
Hill Country Fare
Hy-Vee
Iams
Laura Lynn
Li'l Red
Loving Meals
Meijer's Main Choice
Nutriplan
Nutro Max Gourmet Classics
Nutro Natural Choice
Paws
Pet Pride
Presidents Choice
Price Chopper
Priority
Save-A-Lot
Schnucks
Science Diet Feline Savory Cuts Cans
Sophistacat
Special Kitty Canada
Special Kitty US
Springfield Prize
Sprout
Total Pet
Wegmans
Western Family
White Rose
Winn Dixie