FDA Investigating Bestro Chicken Jerky Strips In Dogs’ Deaths
Kate Collins is not the only pet owner that claims a dog died from eating Bestro Chicken Jerky Strips bought from a Wal-Mart.
Sherri Shelton, an Indiana pet owner, had to put her 7-year-old dog down after she ate Bestro Chicken Jerky Strips last month. (Shelton actually contacted Itchmo about the article and her situation.)
Shelton’s dog, Sheba, started acting strangely after a visit to the veterinarian in early July. Just a few days after seeing the veterinarian, this soft-coated wheaten terrier became violently ill.
Shelton said that Sheba’s blood work was completely normal and fine when she had her last check-up at the veterinarian.
On July 24, Shelton took her dog to an animal clinic. She was told that Sheba had kidney problems, and they gave her antibiotics and an IV. Three days later, Sheba suffered toxic renal failure, and Shelton had to make the hard decision to put her beloved dog to sleep.
Wanting to find out why her dog suddenly died, Shelton immediately thought of the two bags of Bestro Chicken Jerky Strips. This former health inspector had been feeding both Sheba, and Sheba’s puppy, two-year-old Kali, these dog treats bought at Wal-Mart.
Shelton began researching on the Internet, called Wal-Mart, and spoke to a representative at Bestro’s parent company in China. She started to believe that there was something wrong with Bestro Chicken Jerky Strips.
She also gave a sample of these dog treats to the Office of Indiana State Chemist for testing. Bob Geiger, a feed administrator with the office, said the tests were being conducted on Shelton’s sample and samples from the manufacturer.
Geiger said the investigation is ongoing and the Office of Indiana State Chemist is working closely with the Food and Drug Administration.
As of yet, there has not been a formal recall of this dog treat. Wal-Mart has pulled the products from all stores and put an electronic block on the product, so it cannot be scanned during checkout according to several reports.
Shelton has said a third party representing Bestros contacted her after Sheba’s death. The company said they would offer to settle with her for $700. The amount was based on Sheba’s life expectancy and medical expenses. The company has offered to compensate Shelton up to $2,000 for medical expenses.
Kali, Shelton’s other dog, is experiencing health problems as well. Shelton has not accepted the settlement pending Kali’s health. She wants to wait to figure out everything at once. Shelton added that her intent was not to take legal action against the company.
Shelton wants to raise public awareness about the potential risk of this product before other pets become ill from consuming it.
UPDATE: I spoke to Sherri Shelton this afternoon (August 20) about the Bestro Chicken Jerky Strips situation.
When she spoke to Wal-Mart, there has been no answer from the company of why they have not done an official recall of the product. In fact, Shelton said that when a newspaper editor called Wal-Mart’s corporate office, the representative said the company didn’t know anything about the situation involving Bestro Chicken Jerky Strips.
Today a FDA official took the remaining Bestro Chicken Jerky Strips from Shelton to perform testing on it.
Shelton said that when she spoke to the third party representing Bestros, they admitted that there was a problem with the product. They are trying to figure out how the product became contaminated, in what lot, and where it was shipped to.
She has spoken to other pet owners, including Kate Collins, that believe that Bestros Chicken Jerky Strips caused their dog’s death or illness. Shelton has spoken to other affected dog owners in Connecticut, Chicago, Illinois, and in Southern Indiana. She added that all of their stories seem to coincide.
Shelton simply wants other pet owners to know about this and wants Wal-Mart to officially recall their product.
Source: Herald Argus
October 28th, 2007 at 1:17 am
It is horrible, what this government is permitting businesses to do to this country. For the sake of obscene profit margins pet and human food manufacturers are importing all this toxic sh** from China and our congressmen either don’t have the balls to do anything about it or, more likely they have been bought off by American business.
As a result, you cannot find ANYTHING that is not made in China. Toxic toys, poisonous pet food. And if you think that human food is okay–think again. Look at the labels in a lot of american food, cereals, etc. and you will see that most of it does not list the source of the products or ingredients. The “made in” or “product of” statement has been replaced by “Distributed by” statements, which tell you didly-squat about the source of the ingredients.
Our jobs are being sent overseas. Greedy American Businesses are helping the Communist Chinese government by building manufacturing facilities in China and making the Chinese Communist Party Elite wealthy at the expense of American labor and the health and well-being of the american people and their pets. In turn the Chinese Communist Party is building up its military. I don’t know how we can tolerate all these dealings with a country whose government persecutes its religious practitioners (look up Falun Gong on the Interent and Live-Organ Donor and “Bloody Harvest) by declaring them enemies of the state, sentencing them to death, and then harvesting their organs, while they are still alive, under sedation, to sell to organ transplant recipients from all over the world at their Military-Run hospitals. And we expect these monsters to care about our welfare and that of our pets?!!!!
Before the next elections I hope you and your families do what I’m going to do–grill the candidates and ask them where they stand on protecting America from Chinese imports and from the country-less traitor businesses who export our jobs, discriminate against qualified american job candidates in order to bring in H1B Visa workers from overseas who get paid less, and allow our country to be overrun by illegal aliens who take advantage of all our social welfare programs while sending most of their money back to their countries.
We americans are getting SCREWED to the max by our government (local, state and federal) and Wall Street businessmen.
Frankly, I get up in the morning and I’m afraid everytime I eat, because even those Chicken Breasts I buy at the local supermarket have no labeling as to where the heck they came from.
American beef manufacturers wanted to label their beef as “produced in the USA” and certify it as free from mad-cow disease and, would you believe it, the FDA oppposed them. Probably to give preference to indiscriminate businesses who plan to bring the beef from overseas. Naturally, american would prefer the American beef because it would be better inspected and of course, certified free from mad cow disease. But since apparently the FDA is now owned by big business . . .
October 28th, 2007 at 1:33 am
It is horrible, what this government is permitting businesses to do to this country. For the sake of obscene profit margins pet and human food manufacturers are importing all this toxic sh** from China and our congressmen either don’t have the balls to do anything about it or, more likely they have been bought off by American business. Our government and our businessmen are becoming as corrupt as the Communist Chinese. It may also be because this government has allowed so much foreign investment in our corporations.
As a result, you cannot find ANYTHING that is not made in China. Toxic toys, poisonous pet food. And if you think that human food is okay–think again. Look at the labels in a lot of american food, cereals, etc. and you will see that most of it does not list the source of the products or ingredients. The “made in” or “product of” statement has been replaced by “Distributed by” statements, which tell you didly-squat about the source of the ingredients.
Our jobs are being sent overseas. Greedy American Businesses are helping the Communist Chinese government by building manufacturing facilities in China and making the Chinese Communist Party Elite wealthy at the expense of American labor and the health and well-being of the american people and their pets. In turn the Chinese Communist Party is building up its military. I don’t know how we can tolerate all these dealings with a country whose government persecutes its religious practitioners (look up “Falun Gong” on the Internet and “Live-Organ Donor” and “Bloody Harvest) by declaring them enemies of the state, sentencing them to death, and then harvesting their organs, while they are still alive, under sedation, to sell to organ transplant recipients from all over the world at their Military-Run hospitals. And we expect these monsters to care about our welfare and that of our pets?!!!!
Before the next elections I hope you and your families do what I’m going to do–grill the candidates and ask them where they stand on protecting America from Chinese imports and from the country-less traitor businesses who export our jobs, discriminate against qualified american job candidates in order to bring in H1B Visa workers from overseas who get paid less, and allow our country to be overrun by illegal aliens who take advantage of all our social welfare programs while sending most of their money back to their countries.
We americans are getting SCREWED to the max by our government (local, state and federal) and Wall Street businessmen.
Frankly, I get up in the morning and I’m afraid everytime I eat, because even those Chicken Breasts I buy at the local supermarket have no labeling as to where the heck they came from.
American beef manufacturers wanted to label their beef as “produced in the USA” and certify it as free from mad-cow disease and, would you believe it, the FDA oppposed them. Probably to give preference to indiscriminate businesses who plan to bring the beef from overseas. Naturally, american would prefer the American beef because it would be better inspected and of course, certified free from mad cow disease. But since apparently the FDA is now owned by big business that’s who they’re catering to–those companies whose only priority is to make as big a profit margin as possible, by importing the cheapest crap available to them from around the world, bypassing all american health regulations, and benefitting from foreign slave labor.
And we americans have no choice–go to any store and see how many products you can find that say “Made in the USA”. Then look and see how many you can find that are made anywhere other than China. Everything is made in China. If our soldiers ever had to go to war against China they would have to go barefoot and naked because our government has not been doing its job of looking out for americans. We pay all these taxes assuming that they are going to go to thinks like fixing our roads and bridges, fixing levees (remember New Orleans and Katrina), and enforcing our immigration laws and then you find out that all this time the money is being used to suppport a bureaucracy that does nothing but push paper and collect their paychecks. Here in the DC area Virginia is planning on selling one of our portions of interstate to a New Zealand company that would collect tolls on it–the excuse by the government is that they can’t afford to keep up the roads. So there it is–our own government is selling our country and our future and our children’s future to the highest bidder just so they can enrich themselves. What do these people do with all our taxes?!!!! Pretty soon we americans are going to have to pay rent to China and to foreign nations in order to live in our own country. That’s what it amounts to. Illegal aliens have more say in our country than we citizens!!!! Here they break into our country illegally, steal identities, use public welfare services such as food stamps, and guess who has to foot the bill?!!!! IN turn, what does our government do for us, the citizens? They can’t (or won’t) even make sure that we have safe food to eat. WAKE UP AMERICA Find out who your representatives are and start calling them. If everyone who reads this calls them and have their families call their congressmen and pressure them, we might start seeing some action. Look up U.S. Congress on the internet and you will find a site where you enter your zip code and it will direct you to your congressmen and give you their phone and fax numbers and e-mail addresses. But I think the best bet is to phone.
November 9th, 2007 at 1:05 pm
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November 13th, 2008 at 10:10 am
Where are we on the Bestro chicken Jerky treats from China,I havent seen anything posted lately.
Is the new Jersey case that was passed apply to all who fed their animals tainted food
Thanks would someone reply