I just want to say thank you Itchmo and to all the members for speaking out and taking action.

Menusux, we should try and find out which of the vitamin/supplement etc type ingredients are DRY, before it goes into the ‘mix’.
As I would think that is the form of the substance we are looking for. {could be a liquid but I think Dry}

How do they receive these products? Bags, cans, boxes?

Do you happen to know What item is used as “the preservative” in the foods?

So now we’ve had the gambit of Drug activities? ‘Doping’ first with the melamine and now possible ‘Cutting’ with Acetaminophen??? Wonder what category the Cyanuric Acid fits???

S-t-r-e-t-c-h that dollar any way we can?

Anonymous, I Luv the last sentence the Most, “What to do with the guilty parties? Hand them over to grieving pet parents. Justice will be served with no cost to the Judicial system”.

Yes indeed, and certainly ‘they’d’ appreciate the “no cost” aspect the most. :-P

Jim Fallon, a spokesman for Diamond Pet Foods, said that the food with the best by date of March 2008 was made in September 2006 at their South Carolina plant.

So we know the tainted grains go back to no less than Sept. 06. I suspect the pet food ingredients were being “tampered” with long before then.

Is it possible the grains used in the exported pet food could have been in storage somewhere, but perhaps originally came from China?

China and the U.S are both at fault for this nightmare. Instead of pointing fingers at each other; the U.S. and China need to sit down together and brain storm wtf went wrong and where. There are rogue companies in each Country that are going to scam everyone they can. The two Countries need to get to the bottom of this and get rid of the guilty parties. Then and only then will we ever see safe pet food again.

What to do with the guilty parties? Hand them over to the grieving pet parents. Justice will be served with no cost to the Judicial System.

Some of those who cut the drugs use things which are not harmful to cut them, but others have used substances which can turn out to harm or kill those using them–aside from the possibility of an OD.

I’d believe that whatever ingredient(s) may be quite expensive, this is where the “cutting” for more profit by Chinese producers goes on. In these cases, acetaminophen was used as the “filler”, with the knowledge that it probably would not be something anyone was actively testing for, so the odds were that it wouldn’t be detected. Neither was melamine until the nightmare began.

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Sunday June 10, 2007

• Dog Food Recall Expands as Manufacturers Delay Testing
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Dog Food Recall Expands as Manufacturers Delay Testing
By M. Bruno
The recent dog food recall has claimed the health and lives of thousands of dogs due to renal failure caused by eating melamine contaminated dog food. Reeling from media attention worldwide, one would hope that the dog food industry got the message and pulled all suspect products from the market. Not so.

Reports continue of additional dog food products being recalled after discovery of tainting. The sad reality is that long after the initial onslaught of media attention alerted dog guardians to the more than 100 brands of dog food being recalled by Menu Foods, some dog food companies continue to drag their corporate feet and have failed to identify and recall contaminated dog food.

In the latest news dogs hospitalized for kidney shutdown prompted a California veterinarian to test Nutra Nuggets dog food bought at Costco. The lab results were positive for melamine.

Now the lives of dogs who ate this dog food brand hangs in the balance.

What is frightening to anyone who owns and loves their dogs is that Nutra Nuggets is not on any current recall list.

The dog food manufacturer had not performed any tests on its products and seems to have relied on the keep your fingers crossed approach while peddling their dog food to unsuspecting families.

After reports of melamine poisoning impacting countless dog food bands, cross contamination, kidney failure and death, one would hope that minimal prudence would have compelled the company to provide minimal assurances of safety for this contaminant by testing their products.

While anxious dog owners await action by the dog food company and the FDA, dogs lie sick in a veterinary hospital.

When will this end?

Frankly, I am not confident that it will anytime soon. The dog food industry has sold untenable landfill waste disguised as “healthy and nutritious” dog food for decades. Testing and enforcement requirements are a sham. The FDA is under funded, overworked, and the industry has run rings around dog nutritionists and veterinarians that have questioned their claims of quality and safety, until now.

The ingredient list in many dog food brands shows melamine as the tip of a poison dog food iceberg.

No dog food brand that is not at a minimum organic, holistic, or human grade should even be considered for your dogs diet.

Read the labels carefully before feeding any dog food brand to your dog. Make sure it does not contain any by products, fillers, preservatives and chemicals. Many do and disguise the actual ingredient list with palatable sounding names.

Consider feeding you dog homemade dog food. It’s one way to guarantee that you are in control of what tour dog is eating.

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It just occurred to me that maybe the Acetaminophen is IN the Supplements {vitamins, minerals etc} they add to the foods, and those might come from a Pharmaceutical type Co.?

That’s closer to a “drug” company {for a drug} for possibly Where it came from, than a “gluten” company.

Just thinking here.

Thank you about the Innova Dry EVO, my Cat would be sparingly eating it, as she is now Addicted to my Homemade Wet LOL!

But still likes the dry to munch on now and then and gives me a Break if I have to leave. {plus she gets her vitamins and minerals per vet recommendations with the Dry if I miss anything}
I hate to leave wet food in the Summer even in AC house as it might ‘turn’ bad sitting out, being homemade.
She gets it twice a day now, and ’saves’ some of it for several hours before it’s All gone.

So EVO would be her less eaten food.
Other might want to consider feeding some veggies or something- to “dilute” the EVO proteins if that is All they feed.

I know the list for {Safe} Grainless is Very Short. sigh

And Why would I when we’ve just learned about a New Poison in the Foods?
The Acetaminophen.
Even More Deadly than the previous ones!

AND as one Posted mentioned above, One company is tested their foods at MidWestLab {And That is FanDangTastic! BUT! MidWestLb does Test for Acetaminophen at all. I know as I just spoke to them at the MidWestLab on Friday and was Told it is Not even Possible to do so At Their Lab}

Why take an even Great chance right Now?

We don’t even Know *What Part of the Food* ingredients the Acetaminophen was In yet!
Grains, fillers, binders, gravy, supplements, etc etc etc.

Nope I’m not chancing anything right now. Got enough t handle with what I have had from the foods {not even recalled ones}

LOOK for Grain Frees that folks here recommend if folks need that.
I Might try the Dry INNOVA EVO for my Cat. {Never their Canned tho!}

I mentioned Fromm Family, might look good- they’ve got many formulas and flavors.
I will probably look at them as well. I found them at a Feed store bout 30 miles away.

KumpiKat is Good, but I’d like to try a- Grainless myself next bag of Dry.

Check the ItchmoForums.com for more recommened ones.

My cat loves Innova Evo dry, but I’ll pass along a caution my vet told me: it’s so high in protein, introduce it slowly: a sudden jump in protein level can cause a renal problem. I think this is especially important if someone is switching from a low or vegetable/grain based protein food. I combined it with Life’s Abundance for a few weeks, and even now, only feed it as half her daily dry–so I figure the protein level she’s eating is about 40% by now.

Also, isn’t Fromm the company that contracts with a human food canning plant in China? They had a letter about it on their web-site, but I can’t find it now. It’s like all references to China have been deleted. Does anyone else remember this?