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Brutus & Barnaby Recalls Entire Line of Pig Ears Treats for Dogs for Salmonella Contamination
Brutus & Barnaby announced they are recalling all of their pig ear dog treats because they have the potential to be contaminated with Salmonella. Brutus & Barnaby is just the latest among the call for all pet treat manufacturers to remove their pig ear treats from the U.S. market. The company has announced they ceased the production and distribution of their product. Their “Pig Ears for Dogs” treats were imported from Argentina and distributed throughout all states via Amazon.com, Chewy.com, Brutusandbarnaby.com, and the brick and mortar store called Natures Food Patch in Clearwater, Florida. The product is being recalled is the “Pig Ears 100% Natural Treats for Dogs”. These were available in 4…
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How Contaminated Pig Ears Will Change the Way We Think About Pet Food Forever
Staring at an empty bulk bin that once held dried pig ears, it struck me that this is probably a common sight in every pet food store in America. Shelves and bins what once held the treats are now empty since the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) made the dramatic announcement that told stores to stop selling them because they might be contaminated with a pathogenic bacteria: Salmonella. When health officials began tracing back to the cause of salmonellosis in patients to what might have caused them to get sick, the one thing nearly of the people had in common was that they had either touched a pig ear dog treat or…
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FDA Warns Us – Again – About Another Raw Pet Food Contaminated With Salmonella, Listeria Monocytogenes
Today’s headline from the FDA cautions pet owners not to feed Texas Tripe raw pet food after samples from some of the lots tested positive for Salmonella and Listeria monocytogenes (L. mono). Texas Tripe Inc. has recalled 35 lots for each of 23 product varieties. The extensive list of the recalled products can be found on the FDA’s webpage “What products are involved?” As with previous recalls of pet food contaminated with pathogens, the FDA warns that having contact with pet food contaminated with pathogenic bacteria represent a serious threat to human and animal health. How did the government find out something was wrong with Texas Tripe’s products? It was when the Office…
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How a Penniless Consumer Advocate Took on a Billion Dollar Empire
When I walk into the Association of American Feed Control Officials (AAFCO) conference hall, packed wall to wall with the world’s biggest names in the pet food and animal feed industry along with state feed officials and federal regulators from both the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and the Centers for Veterinary Medicine (CVM), I wonder: How did I get here? From growing up on a hippy commune in Northern California to working in the advertising business, to becoming a pet food safety advocate and consumer advisor to AAFCO – it’s a path I never envisioned. I always thought I’d end up living in a penthouse in Manhattan, gracing the pages of…
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Cargill Expands Recall of Animal, Equine Feed Due to High Levels of Aflatoxin; Eighty-Four Southern States Brands Affected
Cargill Inc. announced the recall of an astounding number of additional brands of animal feed this week, including horse feed, due to elevated aflatoxin levels. Aflatoxin is a toxin found on moldy crops that if ingested can kill animals. Cargill’s is expanding its recall to include an additional eighty-four Southern States feed brands, including eleven equine horse feed formulas, due to aflatoxin levels that exceed FDA’s action levels. This is an expansion of the recall initiated May 6, 2019. HOW BAD ARE AFLATOXINS? All mammals and poultry exposed to high levels of aflatoxin are at risk for acute and chronic adverse effects and health consequences across all species and age classes. Immature animals…
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Dolphin-Safe Cat Food? Think Again. Lawsuit Accuses Nestle-Purina of Using Suppliers Whose Fishing Practices Endanger Marine Mammals.
Three separate class action lawsuits filed last week accuse Nestle-Purina PetCare Co., StarKist Co., and Bumble Bee Foods of fraudulently labeling their products as “Dolphin Safe,” while use suppliers whose fishing practices endanger marine mammals. The Nestle-Purina lawsuit, filed on May 13, 2019, in California federal courts, claims the company labels its Fancy Feast brand of cat food as “Dolphin Safe,” while the company buys tuna from brokers who trade with fisheries who deliberately encircle both tuna and dolphins, hauling the whole catch in and killing dolphins as a result. And it’s not just dolphins that get caught in these drift nets; it’s also sea turtles, sharks, albatrosses, and other marine life that…
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Hill’s Silently Slips Another Lot of Dog Food into the Massive List of Recalled Dog Food Due to Toxic Levels of Vitamin D
UPDATE (May 21, 2019) Hill’s Pet Nutrition’s recall of their Hill’s® Prescription Diet® i/d® Digestive Care Chicken & Vegetable Stew Canned Dog Food, 12.5 oz, SKU 3389, batch code 102020T21 finally made an official appearance today on the FDA’s Recalls, Market Withdrawals, & Safety Alerts webpage. Hill’s explains that the new addition to the list of already expanded list of recalled dog foods due to dangerous levels of vitamin D in it involves “a single can date/lot code within an already recalled case of dog food was inadvertently omitted from our recall list.” UPDATE (May 16, 2019) According to Hill’s, the reason for the surreptitious recall was because it was a lot…
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Cargill Recalls Southern States Horse, Livestock Feed for Excess Level of Aflatoxin
Cargill Inc. pulled nearly 300,000 pounds of animal feed from the market over the past three months due to elevated aflatoxin levels; a toxin found on moldy crops that if ingested can kill animals. The recall, announced Tuesday by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, includes chicken and cattle feed, as well as some sheep and goat feed, including the Triple 10 Horse Feed, all sold under the Southern States brand. Cargill has removed all the product from retail shelves and contacted some customers, asking them to throw away the affected product. The recalled products were distributed in Georgia, Maryland, New Jersey, New York, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, Virginia, and West Virginia.…
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FDA Pulls the Plug on Policy Guides Which Allowed 4D Meat in Pet Food, But Admits it Might Still Get a Pass
The FDA made the historic announcement yesterday that they are withdrawing three of their most loathsome Compliance Policy Guides (CPGs), including the ones that allowed pet food manufacturers to use diseased animal tissue in pet food and animal feed with impunity for decades. The agency is pulling the plug on the three policies which allowed for 4D (dead, dying, diseased and disabled) animal tissue in pet food and animal feed, specifically CPG 675.400 (“Rendered Animal Feed Ingredients”), CPG 690.300 (“Canned Pet Food”) and CPG 690.500 (“Uncooked Meat for Animal Food”) The FDA says the reason for their withdrawal of the policies was that they were “outdated,” adding, they were in violation of part…
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Deadly Bacteria Found in Raw Pet Food. Again. Should We Be Worried? Hysterical? Or Just Plain Bored.
There was a small recall of raw pet food last week at Thorgersen’s Family Farm, one which I almost overlooked. Until I read the notice. Something about this recall was different. Maybe it was the way they wrote about the danger of Listeria monocytgenes, how they laid bare the horrifying effects: fatal infections, stillbirths. And it reminded me of the stories I had been reading lately, of the heartbreaking tragedies, and the shattering devastation of listeriosis; babies dying in their mother’s arms; mothers giving birth to premature and stillborn babies. It was the memory of those heart-rending stories that prompted me to look beyond this recall and examine the possibility – however remote…
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