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FDA Issues Public Safety Alert For Contaminated Raw Pet Food, Aunt Jeni’s Raw Dog Food Due to Salmonella, Listeria Monocytogenes Named
In a public safety alert, the US Food and Drug Administration is cautioning pet owners not to feed their pets Aunt Jeni’s Home Made frozen raw pet food after samples tested positive for Salmonella and Listeria monocytogenes (L. mono). The alert is being issued because two samples finished product collected during a routine inspection of Aunt Jeni’s Home Made manufacturing…
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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…
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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…
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Botulism, Listeria Threat Prompts Recall of OC Raw Dog Food, State Testing Reveals Danger
OC Raw Dog is recalling its freeze-dried sardine dog treats because there is a potential for them to be contaminated with a deadly neurotoxin: botulism. The product is being recalled because the FDA considers uneviscerated fish over five inches in length represent a potentially life-threatening health hazard and are considered adulterated. CLOSTRIDIUM BOTULINUM IN FISH? I’m afraid so. In fact,…
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K9 Naturals Recalls Raw Dog Food For Dangerous Pathogen: Listeria Monocytogenes
During random testing, the Colorado Department of Agriculture discovered a dangerous pathogen lurking in New Zealand’s K9 Natural raw dog food: Listeria monocytogenes. The recall was initiated after K9 Naturals was informed by the state of a positive test result at which point the company was obliged to recall the contaminated dog food. The recall involves four batches of K9…
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FDA Warns Darwin’s: Clean Up Your Act or Face The Regulatory Music
A damning FDA warning letter sent to Darwin’s Natural Pet Food this week tells the raw pet food company clean up its act or face the regulatory music. The company is being given fifteen days to shape up or ship out after the agency has repeatedly warned the company about significant pet food safety fails. This news follows on the…
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Raw Pet Food: The Problem That Just Won’t Go Away
With back to back raw meat pet food recalls these days, pet parents are beginning to worry: Just how safe is raw pet food anyway? No other subject than raw pet food is more divisive and more misunderstood. Pro-raw pet fooders rabidly defend their position, convinced that the government and Big Pet Food are conspiring to ruin raw meat pet…
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Inspection of Darwin’s Reveals Revolting Conditions, Complaints of Ill and Dying Pets
A new report on Darwin’s raw pet food company uncovers a virtual “laundry list” of violations and repeated complaints of sick and dying pets. An inspection report provided to Food Safety News reveals a multitude of food safety violations and hundreds of complaints. Despite hundreds of accounts of sick and dying pets, Gary Tashjian, the owner of Darwin’s Natural Pet…
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Blue Ridge Beef raw pet food recalled for Salmonella and Listeria; puppy dies, kittens made sick from contaminated pet food
Blue Ridge Beef is voluntarily recalling two of its frozen products due to their potential to be contaminated with Salmonella and/or Listeria monocytogenes. Salmonella and Listeria can affect animals eating the product. There is a risk to humans from handling contaminated pet products, especially if they have not thoroughly washed their hands after having contact with the products or any…
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Rad Cat Raw Food Recalled for Dangerous Bacteria; False + Misleading Human-Grade Claims Revisited
Three varieties of Rad Cat Raw Diet cat foods are being recalled from 48 U.S. states and Western Canada because they might be contaminated with Salmonella and Listeria monocytogenes, posing a health hazard to humans and pets. Lab tests confirmed Salmonella and Listeria monocytogenes in samples of the cat food from Radagast Pet Food Inc. of Portland, OR, according to…
