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Milk Bone Dog Biscuit Product Pull
- 9-30-2011
- Categorized in: Pet Food Recall
eFoodAlert author Phyllis Entis, also known as the Food Bug Lady, posted a notice of recall of Milk Bone dog biscuits as posted on Ingles Markets website.
Ingles Markets website states: Milk Bone Dog Biscuit 10lb
Delmonte Pet has a recall on Milk Bone Dog Biscuit 10lb. Code #90967 Milk Bone Dog Biscuits 10 lb (UPC 24000-92502) with lot code 12071k Only!
The FDA website had no information of this recall, so I called DelMonte. I was told "this is not a recall, we voluntarily pulled the product because mold was discovered after the product was in the market place." When I asked too many questions of the DelMonte consumer representative, she told me I was going to need to talk with 'someone else'. She took my name and number, I've waited three hours - no return call.
So, if your pet eats Milk Bones, please look for code #90967, UPC 24000-92502, lot code 12071k on the box. The product could contain mold to which we have no idea how dangerous this might be.
Should DelMonte ever decide to return my call, or post information on this 'product pull' on their website, I'll post it here.
Wishing you and your pet(s) the best,
Susan Thixton
Pet Food Safety Advocate
Author, Buyer Beware
Co-Author Dinner PAWsible
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Good one, Sue. Thanks for following up.
I have never liked milk bones. Gave my dog bad gas many year ago. As soon as we stopped giving them, the gas stopped. I have never given any to my dogs any since. Others have though, (you know the trrat lady in the park that feeds the colored ones?) and they always get gas. No food value either. I think they should not be considered food, just as cheese products in a jar and other human foods aren't.
Thanks for the info -- passed on to many of my animal loving friends, but I haven't given my dogs "commercially produced" preservative filled, animal "by-product" filled, mostly made in China, JUNK for years! One of my dogs had the worst allergies. Took him to a dermatology vet specialist -- waste of money. Get your dogs on NO WHEAT, NO SUGAR, NO PRESERVATIVES HOLISTIC dog foods like Nutrisca, Innova, Bil Jac, etc. We tried many, including the usual "Science Diet" the vets push...waste of $$$. Nutrisca by Dogswell has worked WONDERS! No more biting and scratching at his paws, licking himself and far fewer ear infections! I swear by Nutrisca. Expensive, but worth the cost for his health, happiness and far less trips to the vet where we got no satisfaction. Most of the commercially produced dog food/treats also have EUTHANIZED DOGS AND CATS IN IT! This is true -- research it yourself. They are called "rendering plants" where they sell dead dogs/cats from shelters, clinics, etc. to be put in your commercially made dog food. The Wall St. Journal did an article on it about a year or so ago, how it was "big business" making big money and I thought, what has this world come to.... BEWARE!!! IT'S ALL MARKETING!
Thanks for your note Lauren. My dog ALWAYS has ear infection and is licking his paws. I have often wondered if it was a food allergy. We give him a locally owned holistic dog food brand, not sold in stores. I am going to try Nutrisca.
I would be VERY leery of anything from Dogswell. See itchmoforums.com and search Dogswell Pet food. They lie about their products & irradiate them. Their products have been refused entry into the US for Melamine ontamination. Remeber the petfood recalls of 2007? His products were refused in Dec. 2008. I remember being on the forum when the owner was replying back to us. We caught him in many lies. I wouldn't touch his products with a "ten foot pole"!
"Mold" should not occur in the first place, with a grain based product, since manufacturers typically add fungicides in anticipation... (which your dog eats, of course). But if there IS mold in the product, then, there is likely also "grain mites" that eat the mold, and, mycotoxins that the mold puts out to protect itself when the mites feed on it. You dog ingests those toxins, as well (including the mite corpses and excrement). There is NO reason at all for mold to be present in any finished product. It's disgraceful, and shameful also, that DelMonte won't submit to an official recall. Consumers should regard this when they make decisions to purchase DelMonte products of any sort, in the future.
Thanks for sharing this "recall" notice with us, and for the follow-up.
We will pass this along to our clients.
Hug your doggies! ♥
~Pamela~
i have a ? who in their right mind gives a dog treats all the time and no kind of dog food only treats every day and i know it can not be healthy wont a dog die from eatting our kind of food every day my uncle feeds his dog what ever he eats and only feeds her milk bones and he thinks its as good as a bag of dog food to her feeding her only milk bones who else does this when ever im eatting he says give sadie some and when i say no all hell brakes loose i need help with this matter email me back at
painter_in_oils_925@yahoo.com thanks
Milk bone biscuits are very healthy for our pet I think your dog know just how special they are by treating them to the great taste and healthy crunch of Milk-Bone biscuits, which help keep your dog's teeth clean and are fortified with 12 vitamins and minerals.
I've been giving my 11 yr old Black Lab the small milk bones for his entire life but the past year or so I have been noticing that he rubs his butt fairly often when I have a box of them. But when I get a box of generic bones, I do not notice him rubbing his butt.... :(
I opened a brand new box of milkbones, the small one, i think its 26 or 28 oz, and within two-three days she started having diarreha. The milk bones were the only thing new in her diet and she is an inside dog that I am very careful with, so i know nothing else was ingested. It has been a week now and the diarreha is still present. she acts fine and eats fine, just the diarreha. does anyone know anything else about the recall?
Last couple boxes Milk Bones had little moths and some kind of larvae in it. Threw one out, thinking it was an exception, bought another with same. Tried re-baking some of them to kill, but decided it's not worth it. Saw online that many others have had this experience. Terrible to feed our dogs, but these pests got into other food in my pantry! I'm sure it was the MB Biscuits because I tried putting them directly into a sealed plastic bag, and the worms and moths were in there, too. Too bad such a staple of the pet food market lets this happen. I will never buy Milk Bone dog buicuits again.