could come one please tell me what was the name of the cat food that they are re calling cause of finding rat

Question

poisionwas found in it .please let me know . i won,t feed my cat any can food till i find out just heard a bout it

Answer 1

Look at menufoods.com there is a huge list

Answer 2

There are about 95 foods on the recall list. It's any wet food -- canned or pouch -- that contains wheat gluten from these specific companies.

The SafePetFood blog has is a list of foods and links to the MenuFoods recall site, the American Veterinary Medical Association recall updates, and the FDA pet food recall info.

http://safepetfood.wordpress.com/

Most useful is something that was posted today. It's a listing of specific brands and lot numbers by PetSmart.

There is much talk of homemade foods. It's hard to meet animals' nutritional requirements as many nutrients get cooked out. Taurine is a good example. Cats will eventually go blind without adequate daily taurine.

So you will also find recommendations on the safepetfood blog about which commercial varieties are not only not in the recall BUT which do not contain corn, soy, or wheat, which holistic vets do not consider to be good sources of protein for pet foods.

Teresa Holladay

Answer 3

My grandmother told me it's IAMS but this articles says otherwise:

Rat poison was found in pet food blamed for the deaths of at least 16 cats and dogs, but scientists said Friday they still don't know how it got there and predicted more animal deaths would be linked to it.

Also Friday, the company that produced the food expanded its recall to include all 95 brands of the "cuts and gravy" style food, regardless of when they were produced.

The substance in the food was identified as aminopterin, a cancer drug that once was used to induce abortions in the United States and is still used to kill rats in some other countries, state Agriculture Commissioner Patrick Hooker said.

The federal government prohibits using aminopterin for killing rodents in the United States. State officials would not speculate on how the poison got into the pet food, but said no criminal investigations had been launched.

The pet deaths led to a recall of 60 million cans and pouches of dog and cat food produced by Menu Foods and sold throughout North America under 95 brand names. Some pets that ate the recalled brands suffered kidney failure, and the company has confirmed the deaths of 15 cats and one dog.

The company expanded the recall -- which initially covered only cans and pouches of food packaged from December 3 through March 6 -- after the FDA alerted it that some products remained on store shelves.

There is no risk to pet owners from handling the food, officials said.

The Food and Drug Administration has said the investigation into the pet deaths was focused on wheat gluten in the food. The gluten itself would not cause kidney failure, but it could have been contaminated, the FDA said.

Bob Rosenberg, senior vice president of government affairs for the National Pest Management Association, said it would be unusual for the wheat to be tainted.

"It would make no sense to spray a crop itself with rodenticide," Rosenberg said, adding that grain shippers typically put bait stations around the perimeter of their storage facilities.

Scientists at the New York State Animal Health Diagnostic Center at Cornell University and at the New York State Food Laboratory tested three cat food samples provided by the manufacturer and found aminopterin in two of them. The two labs are part of a network created after the September 11 terrorist attacks to keep the nation's animals and food supply safe.

"Any amount of this product is too much in food," Hooker said.

Aminopterin is highly toxic in high doses. It inhibits the growth of malignant cells and suppresses the immune system. In dogs and cats, the amount of aminopterin found -- 40 parts per million -- can cause kidney failure, according to Bruce Akey, director of Cornell's diagnostic center.

Answer 4

There are 40 plus different brands of cat food. 50 plus dog food brands. Go to menu foods website to see complete list.

Answer 5

this will help u so ur kitty won't have to go hungry, and if ur still in doubt till u find the answer ur looking for, pleez, at least try to give him or her some human tuna in oil drained the original address is: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/17650075/ when u log onto that address it will give u the info for the manufacturer of the pet foods and the names, and who is the retailer,etc. i do believe it's menu.com but use the address i gave u to be certain

Answer 6

All dry cat food is OK. Friskies wet food is OK too. That is the food I give my cats.

Hope this helps!

Answer 7

go to menu food's website it lists all the recalled product. only wet food was affected. stick with wiskas dry food and you'll be fine. don't use store brands for a while... they were affected!!

Answer 8

wwwmenufoods.com has the list of cat and dog food. the aminopterin is also used for people that leukemia.

Answer 9

Iams is the name of the food.

Answer 10

go to www.menufoods.com they have a list of pet foods that are on the recall list.. they are the manufacturers of it.