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DogExplorer.com News - Dick Van Patten's Natural Balance Pet Foods has expanded the list of recalled products just a day after announcing an initial recall. This time the blame is placed on rice protein which has tested positive for melamine contamination.
The suspect rice protein was purchased from China, but not from the same supplier that sold ChemNutra wheat gluten which triggered the initial round of massive recalls, reported pet illnesses and deaths.
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DogExplorer.com News - Menu Foods has added another variety of canned dog food to its list of recalled pet food. The addition comes thanks to a further review of production records from its plant in Emporia, Kansas.
The recall statement also added two production dates to eight varieties of pet food already recalled and, according to the company, presumably off store shelves.
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DogExplorer.com News - Reports of vomiting and kidney problems have prompted the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and Natural Balance Pet Foods to recall Venison & Brown Rice Dry Dog Food and Venison & Green Pea Dry Cat Foods.
According to the FDA website, the pet food manufacturer has not identified the source of the problem, but the reports are sufficient to justify a recall.
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DogExplorer.com News - The hidden world of dog food brands and pet treats became a little less obscure today with the announcement by Alabama-based Sunshine Mills, Inc., that their dog treats and biscuits are also being recalled due to the use of suspect wheat gluten from the same supplier that provided wheat gluten to Menu Foods.
The recall stems from concerns batches of wheat gluten may be tainted with melamine, a substance with unknown toxicity to pets but which is not approved as a pet food ingredient.
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DogExplorer.com News - Published reports that DogExplorer.com is unable to confirm state that the official Chinese People's Daily (CPD) claims the wheat gluten sold by Xuzhou Anying Biologic Technology to Menu Foods and several other pet food companies was not the source of the dog and cat poisonings reported.
In preparing this news item a thorough search was made of the CPD (English edition) website, but no reference to the wheat gluten story was found.
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