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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…
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Companion Canned Dog Food Recalled for Metal Fragments, Choking Hazard
Companion canned dog food sold at Stop and Shop, Martin’s Foods, and at Giant Food Store retail outlets is being recalled because it may contain – an as yet unnamed – “foreign material”. This recall coincides with the announcement of PetSmart’s Grreat Choice Adult Dog Food which was recalled for “metal contamination” which poses a choking risk to pets. Both…
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FDA Confirms Evanger’s Dog Food Contained Euthanasia Drug Pentobarbital
A U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) spokesperson confirmed yesterday that the agency found sodium pentobarbital in unopened cans of Evanger’s dog food, following the recall announced on Friday. As a result of the testing, Evanger’s “voluntary” recall was initiated at the request of FDA. Previously, a toxicology report concluded that a large quantity of pentobarbital was identified in a…
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Euthanasia Drug Found in Evanger’s Dog Food, Causing Illness and Death of Dogs
UPDATE: Phyllis Entis of eFoodAlert received confirmation from an FDA spokesperson that “FDA testing carried out in the agency’s Forensic Chemistry Center and Vet-LIRN labs detected pentobarbital in Talula’s stomach contents, in an open can of food collected from the dog’s owner, and in closed cans of food collected from the dog’s owner and from the retail location where the…
