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Various Private Label Pet Food Recalls due to Aflatoxin
- 12-18-2010
- Categorized in: Pet Food Recall
Dec. 18, 2010 /PRNewswire/ -- The Kroger Co. said today it is recalling select packages of pet food sold in some of its retail stores because the products may contain aflatoxin, which poses a health risk to pets.
CINCINNATI, Dec. 18, 2010 /PRNewswire/ -- The Kroger Co. said today it is recalling select packages of pet food sold in some of its retail stores because the products may contain aflatoxin, which poses a health risk to pets.
Kroger stores in the following states are included in this recall: Alabama, Arkansas, Georgia, Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, Louisiana, Michigan, Mississippi, Missouri, North Carolina, Ohio, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, Virginia and West Virginia.
The recall also includes Dillons and Gerbes stores in Kansas and Missouri; Baker's stores in Nebraska; Food 4 Less stores in Nebraska, Illinois and Indiana (Chicago area); and Jay C, Hilander, Owen's, Pay Less and Scott's stores in Illinois and Indiana.
Stores the company operates under the following names are not included in this recall: Ralphs, Fred Meyer, Fry's, King Soopers, Smith's, QFC, City Market, Foods Co., and Food 4 Less stores in California and Nevada.
Kroger is recalling the following items:
• Pet Pride Cat Food sold in 3.5 lb. packages with a sell by date of OCT 23 11 DP and OCT 24 11 DP under the following UPC code: 1111088128
• Pet Pride Cat Food sold in 18 lb. packages with a sell by date of OCT 23 11 DP and OCT 24 11 DP under the following UPC code: 1111071357
• Pet Pride Tasty Blend Poultry & Seafood Cat Food sold in 3.5 lb. packages with a sell by date of OCT 23 11 DP and OCT 24 11 DP under the following UPC code: 1111088152
• Pet Pride Tasty Blend Poultry & Seafood Cat Food sold in 18 lb. packages with a sell by date of OCT 23 11 DP and OCT 24 11 DP under the following UPC code: 1111074580
• Pet Pride Kitten Formula Food sold in 3.5 lb. packages with a sell by date of OCT 23 11 DP and OCT 24 11 DP under the following UPC code: 1111071903
• Old Yeller Chunk Dog Food sold in 22 lb. packages with a sell by date of OCT 23 11 DP and OCT 24 11 DP under the following UPC code: 1111074566
• Old Yeller Chunk Dog Food sold in 50 lb. packages with a sell by date of OCT 23 11 DP and OCT 24 11 DP under the following UPC code: 1111074563
• Kroger Value Cat Food sold in 3 lb. packages with a sell by date of OCT 23 11 DP and OCT 24 11 DP under the following UPC code: 1111000018
• Kroger Value Chunk Dog Food sold in 15 lb. packages with a sell by date of OCT 23 11 DP and OCT 24 11 DP under the following UPC code: 1111071559
• Kroger Value Chunk Dog Food sold in 50 lb. packages with a sell by date of OCT 23 11 DP and OCT 24 11 DP under the following UPC code: 1111000108
Aflatoxin is a naturally-occurring toxic chemical by-product from the growth of the fungus Aspergillus flavus on corn and other crops. If your pet shows any symptoms of illness, including sluggishness or lethargy combined with a reluctance to eat, yellowish tint to the eyes and/or gums, and severe or bloody diarrhea, please consult your veterinarian immediately.
The safety of our customers and their pets is important to Kroger. The company is using its Customer Recall Notification system to alert customers who may have purchased these recalled products through register receipt tape messages and automated phone calls. Customers who have purchased a recalled item should not use it and should return it to a store for a full refund or replacement.
Customers who have questions about this recall may contact Kroger toll-free at (800) 632-6900. For more information, please visit www.kroger.com/recalls.
http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/kroger-recalls-pet-foods-due-to-possible-health-risk-112125284.html
Aflatoxin contamination is a serious recall. The Kroger Customer Service number provided in the release was not open on the weekend; I do not know the actual manufacturer of these pet foods. The concern is the co-packing manufacturer using the same aflatoxin contaminated ingredients in other foods not yet recalled. Please be cautious of pet food/treats made with corn, wheat, or soy. To learn more about aflatoxin and mytcotoxins, click here.
Wishing you and your pet the best,
Susan Thixton
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Get ready for this to expand, they like dragging out the suspense as to who gets a sick or dead pet for Christmas!
Vet bills, blood tests and bloody diarrhea just make the holidays so festive.
#1, you are correct. I normally feed raw but due to economics I have beed supplementing with holistic kibble. IT still scares the hell out of me with each cup full......WONDERING if I am feeding deadly toxins to my girls.
I would rather feed the cheapest ground beef, chicken or turkey meant for human consumption than ANY commercial pet food.
You statement s so true......Get ready for this to expand........It most certainly will!
I hope owners of new pets this holiday season don't mistake GI problems as stress related to the pet coming into a new home and miss a potentially serious issue.
Also please remember to keep your Christmas ham away from your dog. No little bits here and there from guests. Ham can cause pancreatitis in dogs which can be fatal, and always costly to treat.
Don't know if you saw it, but there's been yet another expose of the Smithfield Farms torture and filth at their plants. The older one was for the farm in Mexico and this one is in VA. Mark Bittman (?) did this latest announcement and both, in detail, can be found thru a quick search. The video will break your heart and make your hair stand on end.
Yes, it includes Paula Deen's line of pork products, sold everywhere including QVC.
Does anybody know who is actually manufacturing the recalled foods for Kroger? Unfortunately, there could be a huge number of other food brands affected, even nation wide.
A Kroger employee emailed me stating the food is made at a Kroger plant in Tennessee. From Wikipedia I found this mention of a Kroger owned pet food plant: Delight Products Co. - Springfield, TN - dry dog and cat foods. There is no mention if this plant make other dry pet food brands than the ones mentioned in the recall.
Thank you Susan! There is some hope then that this will not turn into another mass poisoning if Kroger just extrudes Krap for their own brands.
I called Kroger's 1 800 number and the guy on the phone was pretty useless. I asked him who manufactured the food and he said he didn't know who did. But he did say that they are only the distributors for Disney's Old Yeller dog food, though. Now whether that is true remains to be seen. I asked him if the food was sold at WalMart, he said he didn't know. I realize now they probably wouldn't be because Walmart is Kroger's biggest competitor. He should have known that. He told me to call back on Monday. I asked him if the phone was ringing off the hook and he said, suprisingly no. Otherwise, he was very polite, if uninformed. Not good Kroger's.
I did find out that Kroger's does indeed manufacture dry cat and dog food from their website. However they didn't say which ones. I assume it's Pet's Pride and Kroger Value brands.
And the FDA so far has been a miserable failure as well: their Pet Health and Safety Widget has no mention of the recall. The FDA's pet food recall notification site has not been updated since November 2010.
And I am signed up to receive food safety and recall notifications from the FDA, the USDA, the CDC (just to mention a few Government offices), and as of this moment, I have not reveived ONE notification. It is set up for just this sort of event: alerting consumers to food safety issues. Are they asleep at the wheel or what? Or is it because Kroger's made the sleazy PR move of releasing their bad news press release on a late Friday evening. Oops! Major customer relations disaster, Kroger's.
I'm disgusted. This recall involves 19 states and the contaminate is aflatoxin for Pete's sake! This is serious stuff.
Thank you again Susan for being the dependable, go to, source for pet food information! What would we do without you!?
Looks like it's going to be a sad Christmas for some poor souls and their beloved pets.I normally don't pray, but I will now, say a little prayer for all the kitties and doggies out there and their pet-parents who must be hysterical. I know I would be. The vets around here are all gone on the weekend and the animal hospitals are closed, I would be frantic. Even though they usually have someone on call, but that means a much higher vet bill because it's considered an emergency visit. And when I think about all the people who are struggling desperately in this horrible economy...Well, I could just scream.
Mollie
Sorry about the rant...
Anyway I forgot to say that I called FDA's Consumer Complaint Coordinator in my state (California), just to see if it was working...nope. The phone just rang and rang. Must be because it's a weekend. Hmmm, you think?
Kroger's, you really blew it!
If my cats ate that food...well, lets just say...actually it's too horrid to contemplate, I love them so much. Basically, I think I would be HYSTERICAL.
Thanks again, Susan!
Mollie
Kroger uses both customer loyalty cards and checkout scanners to notify customers who have, or who are about to purchase, recalled products. Loyalty cards store past purchase information which can be mined to warn of previously purchased tainted products. And in some cases, phone calls will made to consumers who purchased a recalled item via the customer notification system.
Kroger joins recall notification network
System can help ensure food safety, several retailers say
http://www.dispatch.com/live/content/business/stories/2010/04/08/kroger-joins-recall-notification-network.html
Much like the much vaunted FDA widget, the Kroger "customer notification system" is useless.
Any corporation can kill your pets, your kids and you with a deadly product any time they like and there is nothing you can do about it but suffer. One bag, can or pouch of pet food can take your pets life, ruin your family finances and inflict years of horror and grief. The FDA will help the corporations do it .
Those are the facts.
Do not make the mistake of thinking the new"food safety" bill will help, it has very little to do with recall authority for the FDA and a lot to do with giving Monsanto MORE of a monopoly. The fed figures people are too stupid to actually read the bill and will fall for anything if they just give it a cute name. Sad to say , most people are just that stupid.
More of a monoploy for Monsanto is not gonna help anyone but Monsanto and the FDA will abuse any new recall powers to harrass small firms for their large corporate masters. That is NOT progress.
I see no benefit at all in jumping through hoops and wasting time trying to contact the FDA. They will do a lot of things TO pet owning citizens but the FDA has done doodly squat FOR us.
Same deal with the Kroger run around, citizens give up personal information, let Kroger track their every purchase, Kroger gets media love for the big public service and then the public gets NO SERVICE!
I had major surgery recently with violent reactions to the meds. You guessed it, manufactured by Monsanto, ok'd by the FDA.
Yes I have and am still fighting chemical poisioning, 2 legged and 4 legged. Chemical meds will not work on a chemically damaged body.
The FDA and Pharmaceutical companys are trying to pass legislation against herbs and vitamins. The only weapon we have against their poisons.
We really have to fight. In the meantime I will try to find a reasonable method of treatment for humans and animals damaged by the greedy manufacturers.
If you've signed up for an alert, you should receive an alert. The individual grocery card email would make a nice backup, but after signing up for alerts from the USDA & FDA, you'd think you'd get one in a timely manner. How frustrating!
Just saw this blog, I lost my 4 year old German Shepherd to the Aflatoxin in the Kroger bought Pet Pride Dog food. I did use my Kroger card to purchase, but I got NO call about the recall. My dog literally got sick and was dead within 25 hours. His death was results of kidney/ liver and pancreatic failure from the toxin. When my Vet reported this to the company, all they told her was I would have to exhume the dog and take his body to the Kord lab here in Nashville, Tn. I would have to pay for an autopsy....THEN WHAT!?!?!? How is it proven? I do not keep my bags when I put his food into the bin. Whats my proof? This is horrible that he is now just a statistic, there have been many animals that have died and/or almost dead in Vet hospitals, yet no one is claiming fault because it "is just an animal" in their eyes. It is sad! Hope that this reaches many people and that the outcome of this tragedy is publicized more than the actual recall was!
Stop feeding your sweet pets these cheap foods!! It's not good for them!!