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Rad Cat Raw Cat Food Recalled For Pathogenic Bacteria, Listeria Found in Two Lots
In the midst of news about the world’s largest ever Listeria outbreak, another raw pet food in the US is found to be contaminated with Listeria monocytogenes. The Radagast Pet Food Company (Rad Cat) is recalling two varieties of its raw cat food following a notification by the FDA and the Ohio Department of Agriculture that several products of multiple…
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Blue Ridge Beef Recalls Raw Pet Food Following Kitten Deaths
Another raw pet food is being recalled. This time it’s for a raw kitten food made by Blue Ridge Beef because of its contamination with Salmonella and Listeria monocytogenes after the FDA received a complaint of two kitten deaths, including one death which was confirmed to be caused by Salmonella septicemia. Subsequent testing by the FDA of Kitten Grind Lot…
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20-Year History of Euthanasia Drug in Pet Food; Pentobarbital Still Found in Dog Food Today
While the horror of the Smucker’s debacle unfolds and the number of dog foods contaminated with sodium pentobarbital – a drug typically used to euthanize pets – grows, 20 years ago the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) found the very same drug in many of the same brands still on the market today. TWENTY YEARS AGO THE SAME THING…
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JustFoodForDogs Recalls Dog Food For Listeria Monocytogenes
Just Food for Dogs issued the following press release yesterday (edited for content and clarity). JustFoodForDogs (JFFD) is voluntarily recalling its Beef & Russet Potato, Fish & Sweet Potato and Turducken dog food meals in all sizes. The green beans used in these meals may be contaminated with Listeria monocytogenes. Listeria monocytogenes can affect animals eating the product and there…
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Evanger’s Publishes Dog Food Test Results for Dangerous Drug, Horsemeat Questions Remain
In another feeble attempt to win back consumer trust, Evanger’s has taken it upon themselves to test more of their dog food for the presence of the deadly drug pentobarbital. The results of those tests have been slowly parsed out over the last few weeks, showing results for various dog foods which tested negative for the presence of the same…
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Evanger’s Declares War With The FDA, Denies Inedible Meat Used in Pet Food
In a move that can only be described as reckless, today Evanger’s Dog & Cat Food Company picked a fight with the United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for exposing the company for using inedible meat in their pet food. Where Evanger’s previously posted pug family updates regarding the recalls of their pentobarbital laced pet food, today all that…
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Evanger’s to Expand Pet Food Recall Amid Horse Meat and Deadly Drug Concerns; Blames Supplier and FDA for Problems
Evanger’s admits to finding horse DNA in its Hunk of Beef pet food in a letter sent to customers Tuesday. The company also has plans to recall all of its Hunk of Beef, Braised Beef Chunks with Gravy and Against the Grain Beef pet foods. A formal recall announcement will be issued later this week. DISMAYED BY RESULTS Suspicious of…
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Evanger’s Admits Horse Meat Found in Pet Food; Plans to Recall All Pet Foods with Beef for Pentobarbital Concerns
If you thought things could get any worse for Evanger’s – it just did. Joel Sher, the vice president of the company, admitted to a reporter that DNA analysis found horse meat in their pet food, saying when the company sent the food out for DNA analysis “the results showed beef, as well as horse DNA.” The testing was ordered…
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Evanger’s Misleading Claims, Misplaced Blame and Other Pet Food Lies
Like so many other pet food companies that lie with abandon and take consumers for a ride day in and day out, Evanger’s is distinctive in one respect, somehow they manage – with alarming frequency – to sink below their counterparts by continuing to lie so blatantly about their pet food despite all evidence to the contrary. BLAMING THE SUPPLIER…
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As Evanger’s Scandal Unfolds, a Look Back at Their Troubled History
The story begins when Joel and Holly Sher, a suburban couple from Northern Illinois, bought Evanger’s, a sixty-seven-year-old pet food cannery, in 2002. Despite its age, Holly remembered, that just about everywhere she looked she saw a way to grow the business, “Right away I realized, `What a gold mine.’” Her husband Joel, having supplied Evanger’s with raw meat and…
