This is the list from a few days ago:

http://tinyurl.com/2875ac

There is no rice protein listed!!! Now all of a sudden they are listing it on their website:

http://www.naturalbalanceinc.c.....enCat.html

Did they SUDDENLY realize they were using this product. GIVE ME A BREAK!!!

Can anyone say “COVER UP”

Your post was just fine, and you very clearly said that you weren’t sure if it was true.

I appreciate you pointing it out, otherwise I would have missed it and would not have called the Pet Food Institute this afternoon.

Well, I just posted additional info on Ziwi here:

http://www.itchmo.com/read/nat.....mment-5405
http://www.itchmo.com/read/nat.....mment-5407
http://www.itchmo.com/read/nat.....mment-5423

Traci Says: April 17th, 2007 at 7:05 pm
Remembered this company for venison:

http://www.ziwipeak.com/Produc.....ine-Family

http://www.ziwipeak.com/Produc.....ne-Family/

Hate to recommend anything but it isn’t a U.S. and it’s higher-end holistic food.

Your report to the telephone number, they take your name and Number and nothing happens. It is time for some new laws

“melamine found in the rice protein concentrate (described by the company as rice gluten) used by Natural Balance” and at the end they say in BOLD “Natural Balance recommends avoiding all rice protein in their products.”

Oopsie, they got busted.

Ingredients: Chicken Meal, Ground Barley, Chicken Fat (Stabilized with Mixed Tocopherols), Chicken, Chicken Livers, Ground Brown Rice, Flaxseed Meal, Ground Oats, Fish Meal, Tomato Pomace, Natural Flavors, Alfalfa Meal, Yeast Culture, Salt, Taurine, Vitamin E Supplement, Choline Chloride, Zinc Sulfate, Zinc Proteinate, Vitamin A Supplement, Vitamin D3 Supplement, Sweet Potatoes, Carrots, Blueberries, Cranberries, Dried Chicory Root, Raspberries, Turmeric, Niacin Supplement, Ferrous Sulfate, Manganese Sulfate, d-Calcium Pantothenate, Manganese Proteinate, Copper Proteinate, Thiamine Mononitrate, Copper Sulfate, Vitamin B12 Supplement, Riboflavin Supplement, Pyridoxine Hydrochloride, Calcium Iodate, Folic Acid, Biotin, Sodium Selenite, Rosemary Extract, Dried Yeast Fermentation Solubles.

I see taurine listed.

TAURINE is a common additive found in most pet food - Guess who has this product available?”

Yes, and it’s because taurine is necessary for feline health (and cats can’t make the necessary amount in their own bodies and must get it meat). It is destroyed when raw meat is heat processed. It then is re-added after the heat process.

“But Natural Balance doesn’t use wheat gluten, the ingredient contaminated with melamine in the Menu recall. Instead, it suspects that melamine was in a rice protein concentrate, a new ingredient used in the dry foods, said Natural Balance president Joey Herrick. “That was the only change in the product,” he says.”

How many other dry foods contain this rice protein concentrate????????????

TAURINE is a common additive found in most pet food - Guess who has this product available?

by Nature Organic has a canned organic chicken & turkey with nothing else added. http://www.bynaturepetfoods.com/

All good wishes,
- Joan

by Nature Organic has a canned organic chicken & turkey with nothing else added. http://www.bynaturepetfoods.com/

All good wishes,
- Joan