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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…
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How Hill’s Secrets and Lies Hid a Catastrophic Failure That Led to the Illness and Death of Dogs Worldwide
When Hill’s Pet Nutrition, the world’s top manufacturer of prescription pet foods, found that some of their dog foods contained lethal amounts of vitamin D, the company hid the problem leaving veterinarians and consumers ignorant of the severity of the crisis. Hill’s, a company whose empire was built on treating the maladies of sick dogs and cats, failure to test…
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Hill’s Expands Recall After Finding Toxic Levels of Vitamin D in More Dog Foods; FDA Request Leads to Expanded Recall
U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is alerting pet parents and veterinarians about potentially toxic levels of vitamin D in additional varieties of Hill’s canned dog food in an expanded recall. Since the initial recall, the FDA has become aware of additional reports of vitamin D toxicity in dogs that ate certain canned dog foods manufactured by Hill’s Pet Nutrition…
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FDA Warns Pet Parents About the Toxicity of Vitamin D Following Multiple Recalls of Dog Food for Excess Vitamin D
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration is warning pet parents about vitamin D toxicity in dogs following the recent recalls of multiple brands of dog food for excess vitamin D. They caution that extremely high levels of vitamin D can cause serious health problems in pets, which can lead to kidney failure and even death. HILL’S SCIENCE DIET, PRESCRIPTION DIET…
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Pet Parents Sue After Hill’s Offers $5 Per Dog For Compensation: Dead or Alive
Frantic pet parents, whose dogs became ill or died after being fed the recalled Hill’s Pet Nutrition reached out to Hill’s for help. Instead of an apology or an admission of guilt, Hill’s offered them $5 in coupons to compensate for the illness and death of their beloved dogs. Yup. $5 lousy bucks. So, naturally, it was only a matter…
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Hill’s Recalls Cat Food Due to High Levels of Iron – Again
Hill’s Pet Nutrition has updated its earlier recall on May 11, 2016 from across the pond of affected products in all countries where they have been placed on the market. The company recalled certain packs of cat food pouches in May 2016 because there were high levels of iron present in the pet food as a result of an “error…
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Hill’s recalls Science Diet dog food for Salmonella contamination
Hill’s Pet Nutrition recalls Science Diet Adult Small & Toy Breed dry dog food because of health risk. In a press release published this morning on the FDA website describes a Hill’s Pet Nutrition recalling Science Diet® Adult Small & Toy Breed™ dry dog food as they are contaminated with Salmonella. The product, part of a single production run, was…
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Purina, Royal Canin and Hill’s busted for price-fixing pet food in the EU
You could say it was the dog food deal that came back to bite them in the ass. French anti-trust authority said Tuesday it will fine Swiss food company Nestle SA, Mars Inc. and Colgate-Palmolive Co. a combined EUR 35.3 million (46.7 million) for anticompetitive behavior. The French anti-trust body, Autorite de la concurrence, said the three companies will be…
