but i just heard about it tonight on the local news.
i started feeding my dog the organic natural balance because of all this and so now the venison & brown rice for dogs (canned & dry) & venison & green pea cat food
articles say there is melamine in the rice imported from china. my god! what the hell is china doing?
The industrial chemical melamine has been found in more pet food, and suspicion is falling on a second pet-food ingredient imported from China as the source of the contamination.
Natural Balance Pet Foods said Tuesday it found melamine in samples of some of its food, which led to a recall. The company suspects melamine was in a rice protein concentrate used as an ingredient, said President Joey Herrick in an interview.
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The rice protein concentrate was imported from China by San Francisco-based Wilbur-Ellis. Herrick says the concentrate, which is being tested, is suspected to have melamine, as it was the only new ingredient. Recalled Natural Balance products include Venison and Brown Rice canned and dry dog foods, dog treats and Venison and Green Pea dry cat food.
Wilbur-Ellis CEO John Thacher said his company sold the concentrate to five pet-food makers, but that most of it went to two firms. One of the primary companies was Diamond Pet Foods, which packs some of the Natural Balance product but doesn’t use the concentrate in any Diamond-made foods, says Diamond spokesman Jim Fallon. The other major customer, which Thacher would not name, tested the rice protein and found no melamine, Thacher says. Natural Balance’s rice protein concentrate is mixed with venison meal, Thacher says.
http://www.floridatoday.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070417/BREAKINGNEWS/70417060/1086and apparently menu foods has added another recall to their list as well:
just thought i'd put this up in case there is someone who should know about this and hasn't heard yet.