One of North America's largest pet-food suppliers said Friday it will recall some of the premium dog and cat food it sells through stores such as Wal-Mart and Safeway at a cost of up to $40-million after several animal deaths in the United States.
Menu Foods Income Fund, based in Streetsville, west of Toronto, said the recall of its products sold in cans and pouches is precautionary.
Chief executive officer Paul Henderson told Canadian Press that exhaustive tests by both internal and external specialists had failed to identify the problem.
“We've undertaken a battery of technical tests . . . and all of those tests have failed to identify any issues at all with our product.”
One dog and a “small number” of cats in the U.S. are reported to have died from kidney failure after eating the food, Mr. Henderson said.
There had been no complaints from Canadian pet owners.
Menu Foods, one of the leading North American private-label and contract manufacturer of wet pet-food, produced more than one billion containers last year.
It supplies its products to 17 of the top 20 retailers in North America for sale under store labels such as Master Choice, Compliments and Select, and manufactures for several national brands.
The recalled products were made using wheat gluten purchased from a new supplier, since dropped for another source, spokeswoman Sarah Tuite said. Wheat gluten is a source of protein.
The recall affects products made between Dec. 3, 2006, and March 6 at two of its U.S. facilities in Emporia, Kan., and Pennsauken, N.J.
Menu's other plants are located in North Sioux City, S.D., and Streetsville.
Source: Globe and Mail ************************************************** Later Edit
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I have been feeding Alpo dry with no problems. I am sticking with this until it all ends! I hear some pigs got into contaminated food, so we had better watch our pork now!
