“All of our food is made in an USDA inspected plant under very strict regulations. Many of the same foods we use are used to feed fish for human consumption and are tested for any toxins.”

So I point blank asked him in a follow up if they ever used binding agents from Uniscope.. since then… *crickets*.. no response.. his food went right into the garbage last night.. I would say be wary of food from goldfishconnection.com (btw, the food isn’t just for goldfish)

I also just wrote Hikari and they sent me this in response:

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Monika - Hikari has always stood for superior quality and the recent scare in no way will impact that. We constantly test our product raw ingredients before use to verify no unwanted items are included and since we are the only fish food maker that controls our entire production process we can be assured what we want in the food is actually what is. Others, as the dog food companies have found out, are at the mercy of the product producer. All our wheat-gluten is from sources that are not impacted by the Chinese problem. We appreciate you taking the time to contact us and your interest in your aquatic pet’s well being!

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Now i’m just waiting to here from the people at goldfishconnection.com who sell the ProGold food I am feeding my goldfish (they also make food for tropicals).

Previous BAD food is Tetramin Flakes for tropical fish.

Current food is Top Fin freeze dried medley (myoisis shrimp, bloodworms and daphnia I believe) and Freeze Dried Tubifex worms.

Also have a good friend tell us of their issues and we told them to change to freeze dried whole food. He thought we were overreacting/exagerating until the change cured his issues immediatly as it did ours.

Guess people’s PET fish mean even less than their furbeasts for it to take this long..

(PS the brand I fed is not the brand recalled above.. FISH FOOD BUYERS BEWARE!)

I use more than one food so was never able to pin down if food was the problem. The original water was clean and not polluted so it doesn’t appear
it was the environment .

Thanks, Monika, for mentioning the brands you use. Local stopped carrying
a favorite and we were reduced to other commercial source. Fish food shopping on the agenda as it is.

I then, as precaution, checked labels of all pet foods I had which contained RPC, glutens, all other protein concentrates (vegetable, soy, fish, etc.) then I realized not only can I be in danger (as a vegetarian I eat tons of wheat gluten and protein conentrates, etc.) but my goldfish (I have 5 in 2 tanks) needed their food screened as well (turned out to be Wardley flakes that had to go based on my assumption of having sub-par ingredients, besides, they’re made by Hartz so that was reason enough) and stuck to my Hikari and Pro Gold foods. So far so good.

Trudy {posts here} has said she’s lost a couple of her Koi recently. She’s wondering if it’s the food now too. Koi are So expensive.
Someone told her about someplace that will do a fish necropsy on them.

I do wonder if the “pet fish” foods are simaliarly tainted {amount ppm/b}, to the foods for ones they set free in the wild.

So it looks like at least One company s paying attention and recalling the food {now finally}.

Must be ok to set free the wild and never know the issues they might have.
Scheeesch!