MENU FOODS?? Do they make ALL the pet food in the US?

Question

Wow! Does anybody know where all of our pet food comes from? SOunds like Menu Foods in Canada makes 90% of it.

Answer 1

They manufacture for 17 of the 20 largest companies most petstore us. The recall is on manufactured foods between December 3, 2006 and March 6, 2007. The recall is limited to "cuts and gravy" style pet food in cans and pouches manufactured at two of the Fund's United States facilities. Menu is the leading North American private-label/contract manufacturer of wet pet food products sold by supermarket retailers, mass merchandisers, pet specialty retailers and other retail and wholesale outlets.

These are the Dog ones:
Americas Choice, Preferred Pets
Authority
Award
Best Choice
Big Bet
Big Red
Bloom
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 Canada
Priority US
Publix
Roche Brothers
Save-A-Lot Choice Morsels
Schnucks
Shep Dog
Springsfield Prize
Sprout
Stater Brothers
Stop & Shop Companion
Tops Companion
Wegmans Bruiser
Weis Total Pet
Western Family US
White Rose
Winn Dixie
Your Pet

Menu Foods' three U.S. and one Canadian factory produce more than 1 billion containers of wet pet food a year. The recall covers pet food made at company plants in Emporia, Kansas, and Pennsauken, New Jersey, Henderson said. (http://www.cnn.com/2007/US/03/17/petfood.recall.ap/index.html)

Answer 2

Canada makes a smaller percent of it. There are more Menu plants is the United States. The recall was voluntary and not forced. Certain factors made the company recall all of its cuts with gravy due to the illnesses. Here is a good suggestion, don't purchased any cuts and gravy made between Dec, 2006 and March, 2007. All of these products have been recalled and should no longer be on shelves at your local stores. The FDA is working with Menu to find the exact cause. They believe that it is in the wheat gluten. Since the recall, Menu has changed who they get this product from. I have since started buying their product again and haven't had any problems. Go to www.menufoods.com/recall for a complete listing of all dog and cat food labels that have been recalled. Please consider that this can happen with any manufacturer and not just them. It can even happen with our food. Remember the spinach recall? This company does care about their products and the safety and health of your animals.

Answer 3

They not only make the brands that were on the list, but some of the canned foods from even higher quality brands as well. My pet food is Breeder's Choice Pinnacle brand. I found out that Menu Foods have made a small amount of their canned food as well. Also some of Wellness brand cat and dog food is made their as well. However, I received this email from them...so I don't know what to think.

"Menu does make some of our canned cat and canned dog foods. They make OUR recipes according to OUR quality standards.

We have procedures in place to clean between each run of food that is produced. We also inspect the plant regularly to audit their procedures. Since we take our quality very seriously we go above and beyond what is expected in the industry. We are happy to tell you that we require our facilities to pass an audit by Cook & Thurber, a HUMAN FOOD auditing firm. They have a great website that explains what they do and their strict requirements. They can be found at www.cookandthurber.com"

Answer 4

No there were no Purina products or many other products. There were a huge amount form Menu foods. That's a surprise isn't it! Even brands like Nutro, Eukanuba and Iams, which self-identify as premium brands. Also for a truly premium brand there is Wysong, which is definitely made in the USA.

Answer 5

Menu Foods only makes wet and moist foods. It doesn't make the dry food sold by the major brands.

Answer 6

They do make a lot of it. It is just amazing to me that Ol Roy and Eukanuba are made in the same plant, with the same ingredients. Most of it is not made in Canada though, it is made in the US.

Answer 7

no menufoods isnt coming from the Canada . theyre company are from califorina silly. how i know that cause i had read their news and i also have their website company that you can check .at www.menufoods.com. recall. for dogs and cats foods. the company had sold pets products throughtout North american under 51 brands foods .

Answer 8

yah i know that some are made in the us but i believe that most comes form canada