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Blue Buffalo Recalls Dog Food Due to Excess Thyroid Hormone Levels
After the FDA advised Blue Buffalo of a consumer who reported hyperthyroidism in one dog, Blue Buffalo decided to recall the dog food in question because the product may contain elevated levels of beef thyroid hormones. The recalled product, Blue Buffalo’s Blue Wilderness Rocky Mountain Recipe Red Meat Dinner Wet Food for Adult Dogs, was announced on Friday. As with…
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Blue Buffalo Recalls Dog Food Due to Quality Issue with Foil Seal
Blue Buffalo has issued a market withdrawal of 17 varieties of its dog food, specifically, its Blue Buffalo brand Divine Delights 3.5 oz. cups and Blue Buffalo brand Wilderness Trail Trays 3.5 oz cups for dogs. This withdrawal is being executed due to a quality issue with the foil seal on the top of the cup. No other Blue Buffalo…
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Blue Buffalo Recalled For Metal Pieces, Choking Hazard to Dogs
Another recall for metal pieces found in a canned pet food manufactured at the Simmons pet food canning facility. This time, Blue Buffalo gets caught in the ever expanding number of pet foods recalled for metal contamination that were all made during the same period of time at the Simmons plant. The recall listed on Blue Buffalo’s website reads as…
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Blue Buffalo IPO predicted to be a big flat flop, bad press and bad food to blame
Blue’s Initial Public Offering (IPO) is set to be the biggest deal and the biggest flop on Wall Street this July. The problem with Blue Buffalo is, they just can’t seem to stop bullshitting consumers and potential investors that their food is all that when the Buff is actually all fluff. Blue Buffalo emphasizes in its advertising and in its…
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Blue Buffalo Admits to Bull****ing Pet Parents; Lawsuit with Nestle-Purina Heats Up
Blue Buffalo admitted the truth in court yesterday: A “substantial” and “material” portion of Blue Buffalo pet food sold over the past several years contained poultry by-product meal, despite pervasive advertising claims to the contrary. Blue Buffalo asked the Court for additional time to file an Amended Complaint in the litigation, naming its ingredient suppliers as Defendants. The admission came…
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Blue Buffalo Gets Slammed by a **** Storm of Lawsuits
Nestlé Purina PetCare Company (Purina) aren’t the only people suing Blue Buffalo, now consumers have jumped on the litigation bandwagon, and Blue Buffalo is getting slammed by a multitude of lawsuits alleging deceptive advertising practices. The growing number of lawsuits filed against Blue Buffalo keep growing, claiming that the company falsely represented that their pet food does not contain certain…
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Purina fires back at Blue Buffalo for back-peddling on by-products
Purina says Blue Buffalo’s self-confessed admission about adulterated food is absurd; and Purina claims it was they who unearthed the truth about the supplier who sold mislabeled chicken meal to Blue Buffalo – not Blue Buffalo. Earlier this week, the Chairman of Blue Buffalo issued an indignant public letter finally admitting its products may be mislabeled, claiming they’d been hood-winked…
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Blue Buffalo admits pet food was mislabeled, pets got inferior chicken instead
Blue Buffalo issued a press release telling consumers they just might not have been getting what they paid for. What’s worse, pets were not getting chicken meal but were getting poultry by-product meal instead. Blue Buffalo recently found out that one of its suppliers has been sending them the wrong chicken ingredient: they were getting poultry by-product meal mislabeled as…
