Their customer service department was RUDE and wouldn’t answer my questions. Everything was PROPRIETARY.

Wouldn’t even say who MADE the food.

It was silly.

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Dear Valued Canidae Customers,

The samples were contaminated from the start. Without a new batch of samples the tests were all void. The person is unfounded and has not produced any test results or even called the Canidae Corporation to discuss their finds.

If this was you, wouldn’t you?? Please do not believe all that you hear and read.

Canidae is still one of the top ten foods out there. We were not involved in any recall and stand behind our products 100%! All our ingredients are either produced or raised in the United States. We test all products before and after production.

Canidae maintains samples from all batches made for over a year. We tested the date in question again with negative results !!

Without hard proof we can only take this as a hoax. Please put an end to this now !!!

Regards,
John Grosse
East Coast Sales Manager
Canidae Pet Foods
jgrosse@canidae.com

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Most vitamin pre-mixes for pet food come from China — and these same companies also make acetaminophen. It’s easy to connect the dots and wonder about the possibility of cross contamination from using the same machines without adequate cleaning between runs. It’s also easy to wonder what else might be in those vitamins, also not cleaned fom the machines between runs. Scary thought, since people and even babies take these vitamins, too.

Alternatively, who in the United States (company-wise) makes vitamin pre-mixes? Are there any companies? Which one does Canidae use?

It’s a good question to ask, but the answer, unfortunately, is most likely propriatory (sp?) information.

Unfortunately, with the advent of the internet, forums and blogs, institutions and individuals can make anonymous claims which can be both true and false.

CANIDAE is committed to producing quality Dog and Cat Food. It is our commitment to provide your pets with safe, nutritious foods, free or wheat, corn and soy! It’s the CANIDAE way!

We are very concerned about the recent rumors spread on a few popular web forums. These are very serious allegations and they are not taken lightly. CANIDAE is working hard to acquire as much factual information regarding these allegations.

Please keep in mind this is a very serious allegation and we have already sent a battery of samples to be tested. CANIDAE is confident our result will show our pet food is free of acetaminophen.

Sincerely,
Canidae Pet Foods

http://www.importsafety.gov/

*They* call the consumers, *they* go to the restaurants, *they* search refrigerators and trashcans, *they* take samples from irrigation ditches surrounding spinach fields.

Grieving families with ill or dead relatives aren’t accused of hysteria, or chided for negligence, for eating out or not cooking their lettuce. Nor are they EXPECTED to know how to investigate! That’s what the authorities are paid to do.

Of course, the authorities didn’t even warn Katrina victims that their temporary trailers were toxic, because the government might be held legally responsible. So much for responsibility these days.

Just so we’re clear. I don’t BLAME people for feeding commercial pet food. It SHOULD be safe. But I wouldn’t ADVISE feeding pets anything but people food you’re willing to eat yourself. Because if a HUMAN gets sick eating human food, the CDC will be on the case.

We still don’t know what happened to the woman who ate a bite of dog food to convince her pet it was people food. 1 bite and she ended up in the hospital. I’ve always thought the concentration was higher or the lab results were different than the FDA claimed.

Why is that?

For heaven sake, look at Disney. They’re going to randomly test toys through a third party. They’re not afraid to say so, either. We’re not Disney, but some organization or business might be our Disney if we can get it together.

DEADLY PAINKILLER IN DOG FOOD

by Robert Jay Russell, Ph.D., Coton de Tulear Club of America President
CotonNews@aol.com
www.CotonClub.com

September 9th, 2007. In a breaking story, both Itchmo.com and
ConsumerAffairs.com have reported that a private individual sent samples of dog food to a private laboratory for analysis and the sample containing Canidae (dry food) tested positive for Acetaminophen, an analgesic which can prove fatal to pets.

This is not the first time this year that pet food has been found contaminated with Acetaminophen; pets have died as a result. The pain killer is extremely toxic to cats who lack any enzyme to break down the compound. It is hepatotoxic in cats, dogs and people.

Expertox, the private, Texas-based laboratory that found Acetaminophen in Pet Pride cat food earlier and now Canidae dog food has tested between 100-150 samples for toxins and found Acetaminophen in five of those samples. Expertox has not released the names of all the companies whose food tested positive, however.

Canidae, located in California, vigorously disputes the findings and claims
that it imports no ingredients from China. Whether that is true remains to be seen, since I have not found any commercial pet food that could be prepared without at least some Chinese ingredients. For example, neither taurine, essential for the prevention of cardiomyopathy in cats and probably dogs as well is 100% sourced from China (no place else makes it anymore!). Similarly, most human and pet vitamins are exclusively Chinese produced.

Here is the results of a simple Google search I performed that located dozens of Chinese companies that make human and pet/animal feeds as well as acetaminophen. I have copied the web information for just one of these companies below:

Be-long Int’l Group
www.be-longgroup.com
P.O.Box139,Gulou Post Office, Nanjing, Jiangsu, 210008, China

Products and Services for Be-long Int’l Group

(2-Phenanthryl)Acetamide (4120-77-8)
Folic Acid, 10%
2-(Acetylamino)Phenol (614-80-2)
Choline Chloride, 50%
Vitamin E, 50%
Vitamin E Acetate, 50%
Choline Chloride, 60%
Choline Chloride, 70%
Riboflavin, Granulation, 95%
Acetaminophen (103-90-2)
Agricultural Fodder Mixers
Alinamin (59-58-5)
Analgin (68-89-3)
Animal Feed
Animal Feed Additives
Animal Feed Additives, Meat Producing Pigs
Animal Feed Additives, Piglets
Animal Feed Additives, Sows
Mineral Supplements, Animal Feed, Liquid
Animal Feed Nutrients
Animal Feed Supplements
Vitamins, Animal Feed
Agrochemicals, Animal Feed, Zinc
Animal Liquid Feed
Animal Mixed Feed
Animal Organic Feed
Bacitracin Zinc (1405-89-6)
Animal Feed Ingredients, By Products
Calcium Pantothenate (137-08-6)
Choline Chloride (67-48-1)
D Pantothenate (79-83-4)
D-Calcium Pantothenate (137-08-6)
Vitamin A Feed Grade
Antifoams, Food Additive Manufacture
Food Additives
Food Colourings
Glucono-Delta-Lactone Encapsulates
D-Calcium Pantothenate, Granular
Granular Food Additives
D-Calcium Pantothenate, USP, Kosher
Animal Feed Additives, Natural
Pantothenate (20938-62-9)
Piglet Feed
Sodium -D-Pantothenate (867-81-2)
D-Calcium Pantothenate, USP

Juice&Food additives
Animal Health Products
Composes medicament
Composes medicament for Aquaculture
Premix for Antibiotics
Premix for Anticoccidiosis
Premix for Multi Vitamins + Minerals
Raw Material

Dr. Russell continues:

For all these many new companies — producing food additives, parmaceuticals and cosemetics — cross contamination is certainly possible (it has been shown to occur in Chinese and US manufacturing with alarming frequency this year!).

The vast scope of this problem is mind boggling. Just this company alone
announces on their web site that:

….after pilot test, we finally put our new production line into operation,
with an annual output of 20,000 metric tons. High quality product with
excellent price, Be-Long is always ready at your service!

It is clear to me that the people and pets of China and the world are at
great, mortal risk. Only effective government — with its ability to test,
regulate and control the flow of products — can keep a nation safe from egregiously contaminated imports and corporate-compromised U.S. and Canadian production facilities. Yet in America, we’ve outsourced and neglected public health and infra structure maintenance and poured our last borrowed dollar into an illicit, illegal war in Iraq (and conspicuously, according to the U.S. General Accounting Office, into the unregulated bank accounts of war profiteers Halliburton et. al.). Ironically, it has been money borrowed from our massive trade deficit with China that has funded Bush’s war. It is this addiction to borrowed money that cripples our present response to toxic Chinese imports. Do not expect government help when determining a “safe” pet food for Fido and FiFi.

It is our children and grandchildren who, suffering degenerating health,
reduced prospects for future growth and employment and reduced longevity, will be saddled with incompetent government and incredible debt for the follies of these past half dozen years of unregulated globalization. We have left our progeny a cess pool of global proportions. Do not expect their gratitude.
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(c)2007 Dr. R. J. Russell & the CTCA

But I just can’t stop LAUGHING.

There are no high end foods. It’s ALL contaminated.

I wouldn’t call it “interesting”, I’d call it very predictable. All you have to do is get inside a pet food company, and ask to see their QAP’s.

What’s that? They don’t have QAP’s. No test equipment either?

You’ve GOT to be kidding?