Pet food recall: Recall expanded again
By Christie Keith
April 10, 2007
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Anyone who saw the Marin Independent-Journal story, which we blogged last night, knew something more was coming, but the list of additional recalled products is longer than I at least expected. And while these products were apparently manufactured in Canada, they were sold in the United States as well.
From a release from Menu Foods, just out on PR Newswire:
Prompted by reports from the US Food and Drug Administration as to the presence of melamine in cans of cuts and gravy pet food produced in Menu Foods’ Canadian production facility, Menu Foods undertook an accounting of all recalled wheat gluten supplied by ChemNutra Inc. to Menu Foods in the United States.
As the result of that review, Menu Foods has identified a single interplant transfer of the ChemNutra supplied wheat gluten, shipped from Menu Foods’ plant in Emporia, Kansas, to its plant in Streetsville, Ontario. This wheat gluten was subsequently used in the production of pet food in December, 2006 and January, 2007, which is being recalled by Menu Foods.
The new varieties in the United States and Canada have been added to the recall list.
It includes the Nutro canned products mentioned in the Marin I-J story as having been found by testing at the University of California, Davis, to contain melamine, as well as many other canned Nutro products, and several other foods. Complete list here.
Update: Nutro’s statement is now up on the company’s Web site. Couldn’t get through for a while, so can’t say exactly when it went up.
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So where is the President of Nutro now? I’d like to see him be man enough to come back to this forum and explain why it took so long to respond to reports about his 3 oz cans of food making cats sick.
And the best part - the recall dates are not limited - its all being recalled. He had been asked about the status of the cans - because his statement and website were silent about their status. At that time, I stated that I was going to assume that if the cans were OK - Nutro would have let everyone know. And that the lack of information was a danger signal.
And I was right!
The worst part - under these circumstances, I hate being right.
Comment by Andrea — April 10, 2007 @ 4:06 pm
It’s not just Nutro that has been updated - check out Menu’s site. They have updated a bunch of brands, noted with today’s date.
Unreal!
Comment by Carole — April 10, 2007 @ 4:11 pm
That’s it my dogs are now off nutro. if nutro does not care about my pets ,your pets. the hell with them
Comment by MARY ANN — April 10, 2007 @ 4:15 pm
I feel sick. I knew this was coming but now we know why our kitty got sick in December. Why wouldnt they listen to us back in january or for that matter the numerous times we tried to call them since March 16th? How many more pets have died or become ill from this blunder? And where in the world are their tracking records, why did it take until now for them to realize , oh gosh, we sent some to Canada too, by golly.
It is too late for our girl and I feel like Im going to throw-up. The only thing making me happy right now is that this might save additional pets from the hands of Menu Foods and Nutro. Shame on all of them! I would say it how im really feeling it right now but I dont want to go into another meltdown like I did a few days ago here. I dont have to act irresponsibly just because they have.
Comment by Sandi K — April 10, 2007 @ 4:16 pm
Deepest sympathy to everyone who is here because their pets have died or are ill. This situation just makes me heartsick.
Looks like Nutro knows it can’t hide behind the “all our products on the shelf are safe” statement anymore. I just checked their website, and they have updated the recall section: “April 10, 2007 -
Updated Press Release From Nutro Products will be posted later today”
http://www.nutroproducts.com/mfrecall.asp
The list of foods I have bought in the past, but fortunately was not currently feeding my cats, keeps getting longer. So I feel fortunate, but always like I just missed getting hit by a train. This never-ending, how-much-worse-can-it-get? turmoil isn’t doing much for my PTSD.
Comment by cerridwen — April 10, 2007 @ 4:26 pm
My 80 year old mother lost her cat in January due to kidney failure. The cat became sick from December - mid January. It was put to sleep the end of January. The vet diagnosis was kidney failure with no explanation. We live in northern Ontario Canada and she purchased food at Wal-mart.
Each day another food comes on the recall list. I wish companies like Purina would go on TV and assure people that their products are okay and that they did not use the wheat gluten from china. I have 3 cats and wonder if I am feeding the food that is okay. I feed them Fancy Feast wet and dry food.
So far they appear okay.
Comment by Connie — April 10, 2007 @ 4:41 pm
no mention of this on my local news (abc nyc) they ran 2 pet related stories and one was about pet owners going green, but they only mentioned the recall in passing and it wasn’t really the point of the story. the other was a story about out leash laws.
so far no mention on nbc national news.
so sad.
Comment by straybaby — April 10, 2007 @ 4:41 pm
My 80 year old mother lost her cat in January due to kidney failure. The cat became sick from December - mid January. It was put to sleep the end of January. The vet diagnosis was kidney failure with no explanation. We live in northern Ontario Canada and she purchased food at Wal-mart.
Each day another food comes on the recall list. I wish companies like Purina would go on TV and assure people that their products are okay and that they did not use the wheat gluten from china. I have 3 cats and wonder if I am feeding the food that is okay. I feed them Fancy Feast wet and dry food.
So far they appear okay.
This is my first message.
Comment by Connie R. — April 10, 2007 @ 4:43 pm
That is the final straw. I am for boycotting any product made in Canada now. Many are. We owe it to the pet owners in Canada with no regulation on their pet foods. How many more pets did they kill by keeping quiet about their Ontario plant. Of course they (Menu Foods) knew that the same ingredient was used there too. I also fired a venom Email to HSUS. They are only parroting old news on their web site. Will stop my monthly contribution to them This is unreal. Am on pins and needles with my 19 house cats and 25 ferals/strays outside. Am soooo mad by now.
Comment by Serijna — April 10, 2007 @ 4:44 pm
I fed my cat, my beautiful soulmate Nutro pouches. He was euthanized three weeks ago. Nutro has done nothing to help those of us who reported sick and dead pets to them, in my opinion.
I NEVER would have bought Nutro Natural Choice Complete Care and Nutro Gourmet Classics Chunks in Gravy if I had known Nutro was using Menu Foods as the source for its wet food. My pet is dead. I will NEVER buy another Nutro product again.
Comment by MFEMFEM — April 10, 2007 @ 4:53 pm
I am just SICK, SICK, SICK over this latest news. I fed my 3 babies the Nutro Natural Choice Chicken & Lamb canned kitten food up until the problems were found with the pouch varieties. Apparently this is the only canned variety of their kitten food that contains wheat gluten. I fed them all the kitten varieties, and the Chicken/Lamb was the hardest to find so they ate that least of all, but still they ate it regularly.
I just sent yet another nasty-gram to Nutro, since I expect them to pay for my cats to be tested. I had a vet appt. for 4/28 but now will have to re-schedule to get all 3 of them in there as soon as possible for bloodwork.
Comment by catlover — April 10, 2007 @ 4:54 pm
I’m sorry that Canada’s pets are also at risk.
Since Menu Foods is a Canada-based company, I’m hoping that our pet loving friends north of the border bombard the proper agencies (financial authorities/stock trading) to look into this mess. Apparently from an earlier report posted on this blog, Mark Wiens, Chief Financial Officer of Menu Foods Income Fund, sold off 45% of the shares he owned in his company about 3 weeks before the pet food recall. The question is… was this just coincidental?
Who are the top 2 or 3 nationally well respected Canadian broadcast journalists who could delve into this horror? Any one there willing to run with this story?
Comment by petlover — April 10, 2007 @ 4:56 pm
Will someone please subpoena ChemNutra for a list of pet food companies having received the garbage gluten? There is no more doubt in my mind they are deliberately withholding information from the public.
Comment by Frank — April 10, 2007 @ 4:57 pm
http://www.royalcanin.ca/index_en.php
ROYAL CANIN RECALL FOR APRIL 10, 2007
Comment by Karen — April 10, 2007 @ 4:58 pm
Wonder what the results of the inspections on Menus plants turned out to be.
http://tinyurl.com/39r95v
Comment by Steve — April 10, 2007 @ 4:59 pm
Cerridwen wrote: “The list of foods I have bought in the past, but fortunately was not currently feeding my cats, keeps getting longer. So I feel fortunate, but always like I just missed getting hit by a train. This never-ending, how-much-worse-can-it-get? turmoil isn’t doing much for my PTSD.”
I know exactly what you mean about just missing getting hit by a train. Some of the foods I fed before switching to raw are on the recall list, some added AFTER the initial recall. I’ve been grateful every day of this mess that I’ve been feeding raw. I don’t even like to consider the possibility of losing one of my dogs to this mess!
With regards to boycotting all products made in Canada and their lack of regulation up there, the US isn’t any better. Pet food industry regulations in the US are an absolute joke. Shoot, even the human food industry isn’t controlled and protected the way many people think it is. This whole mess could just as easily have involved mass amounts of human food products, especially in light of the fact that regulations on US growers are much, much tighter than on importers. And imports are not inspected as they should be to insure safety.
Comment by Dawn Turner — April 10, 2007 @ 5:06 pm
Just got word from a dear friend that had been feeding Ole Roy DRY that he has now buried three of his precious dogs.
We are fighting once again to save my black lab. He had been fine for a week and now he is not eating or drinking. I have home cooked all of his meals for over a week so the food is not the issue. The vet will get more test results back in the morning.
I can’t bury another one of my dogs!!!!! Any pet food manufacturer listing?
Comment by Sunshine — April 10, 2007 @ 5:10 pm
PRESS RELEASE
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FOR MORE INFORMATION
Tom McPheron
Phone: 847-285-6781
Cell: 773-494-5419
e-mail: tmcpheron@avma.org
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
April 10, 2007
AVMA Posts Comprehensive Pet Food Recall List
SCHAUMBURG, Ill.
— The American Veterinary Medical Association (AVMA) has posted a comprehensive list of all pet foods recalled in connection to a suspected wheat gluten contamination. The comprehensive AVMA Pet Food Recall List is available at http://www.avma.org/aa/menufoo.....oducts.asp. This information has been posted by the AVMA to help pet owners and veterinarians more easily and quickly sort through the over 100 pet foods currently recalled.
The number and brands of pet foods that have been recalled in connection to contaminated wheat gluten has grown since Menu Foods, a private-label pet food producer based in Canada, initially announced the recall on March 16. The AVMA Pet Food Recall list consolidates all manufacturer, brand and formulation information.
The AVMA also reminds pet owners what should be done if an animal is found to be affected by these contaminated pet foods. Most importantly, pets need to be seen and treated by a veterinarian. If your pet shows signs of loss of appetite, lethargy, vomiting or change in urination, consult a veterinarian immediately.
The AVMA wants all veterinarians to know that any reporting problems with the FDA complaint lines have been addressed and they should continue to call the FDA’s Consumer Complaint Coordinator for their state. A list of these coordinators is available at: http://www.fda.gov/opacom/back.....plain.html.
Pet owners must remain informed on the latest recalls, recheck all pet food in their possession, and stop feeding their pets any of the recalled pet foods that they have in their homes. Many veterinarians have reported that animals have recently been made ill by foods recalled from store shelves weeks ago.
The comprehensive AVMA Pet Food Recall List contains all recall information that has come to the attention of the AVMA, but it is not guaranteed to be complete. The AVMA encourages all concerned to contact the specific manufacturer regarding the status of any particular pet food or treat.
For the latest news releases on the pet food recalls, please visit the AVMA Web site at: http://www.avma.org.
Comment by Carole — April 10, 2007 @ 5:16 pm
http://tinyurl.com/2pz5dl has Nutro recall info
Comment by Sue Dunn — April 10, 2007 @ 5:19 pm
Sunshine, please please PLEASE tell your friend to contact the FDA with as many specifics as he can about the food he fed his dogs. It won’t bring back his beloved animals but it might help someone else save theirs.
Comment by Sharon — April 10, 2007 @ 5:52 pm
I get a “page cannot be found error” when I try the listed url for the comprehensive AVMA list.
http://www.avma.org/aa/menufoo.....ducts.asp.
Comment by Gayle — April 10, 2007 @ 5:52 pm
There are a few trivial tidbits of information I would really very much like to see somewhere at this website, maybe another blog topic, but THE NUMBMERS OF SICK not just the dead, please, even knowing they are self-reported and all the baggage coming with that…
Also, one of the things keeping our vet just a little skeptical over whether our cats kidney problems are directly related to the Menu… The test levels from the Feline Senior blood screening and time from original diagnosis, and I mean this only for survivors because I know these numbers are much higher in most pets that needed to be put to sleep over this…
There are several mineral concentrations measured, but the key are BUN(78) and Creatinine(7.9) levels (for our cat last week, 10 weeks from initial diagnosis).
I would very much like to know what the test results other pet parents with survivors are seeing…
Again, pet connection, please feel free to move this to another blog topic if you feel it’s better not here… And please report the numbers of sick, not just the dead.
Comment by steve a — April 10, 2007 @ 5:53 pm
OK Im trying to be respectful and polite so I dont go off into one of my tizzy’s again. Is there a polite way to say “IDIOT”? Maybe in French it would sound classier…I just went out on Menu Foods recall list. They have one section of the cat food called Nutro Products which our kitty’s food is now showing up under. But there is also a section called Nutro Max Gourmet Classics….well the Nutro MAX Cat California CHicken Supreme IS a Nutro Max Gourmet Classic food and its not showing up under that list…..very confusing, do they not even know where to list the food they are recalling?
Comment by Sandi K — April 10, 2007 @ 6:00 pm
Steve, I know how you feel. My vet is skeptical of one’s kidney failure but not the other. It bothers me. They have said unequivocally that Maui got sick from the food but Cleo’s kidney problems are chronic. How could being fed tainted food not exacerbate an existing problem? And for some unknown reason, my other cat is not showing signs of kidney failure. Thank God for that. But who knows what the next few weeks hold for my girls :(
Anyway, I’m gonna do some digging and see what I can find and I will try to get the actual figures from my cats tests when I visit the vet tommorrow.
Comment by Sharon — April 10, 2007 @ 6:04 pm
I can’t reach the Nutro site (http://www.nutroproducts.com/). The connection is timing out. Is it just me?
The stories of everyone losing their pets is really hard to read. We nursed our cat Rhett through a combination of heart failure and renal failure through the end of the year and finally euthanized him at the beginning of February. It seems like every other day, there’s another product recalled that we fed him in the ongoing round-robin of “what will the sick cat eat today?” With his heart condition, he will never be counted as a victim of this recall, but I keep wondering if he would be with us today if I hadn’t given him some of these “premium” foods that were probably poisoning him.
My friends and family are starting to look at me funny when I talk about the latest recall news, but I can’t help but obsess about it. I have three more cats to try to keep alive through this crisis.
Comment by CatLady — April 10, 2007 @ 6:06 pm
to Catlady - the Nutro website must be swamped, but I have been able to get in no problem. I have sent them 2 emails tonight, plus checked their updated recall list to see many cans of cat/kitten food listed. I also re-checked the ingredients list of the recalled kitten food (chick/lamb) and sure enough, that flavor does contain wheat gluten. Apparently the other kitten flavors do not, but of course I wouldn’t trust the Nutro packaging, nor would I trust the Menu plant where the food was made. The machinery could be contaminated so basically any of their products should be considered suspect.
Comment by catlover — April 10, 2007 @ 6:14 pm
Comment by CatLady — April 10, 2007 @ 6:06 pm
When a well-packaged web of spin has been spun gradually to the public such as we have seen since March 16, the truth will seem utterly preposterous and its speaker a raving lunatic.
Comment by Steve — April 10, 2007 @ 6:16 pm
Well, I just read the new statement on Nutro’s website. I just love how Dave says consumers are fed up with Menu Foods (yeah, way to try to distance yourself)then he goes on to say that he previously issued a further recall than was necessary. (Way to pat yourself on the back for minimal action)
Comment by Christi Alcox — April 10, 2007 @ 6:17 pm
And here’s another thing that’s p!ssing me off about Nutro. Didn;’t they say only their pouch food was made by Menu? Luckily (I think) I immediately stopped feeding Nutro after the 1st recall, I hope that was soon enough for my 3 cats.
Comment by catlover — April 10, 2007 @ 6:18 pm
And WHY didn’t Nutro test ALL of their canned food (at least the ones with wheat gluten) as soon as their pouches were recalled??? Why did it take a vet from CA to send cans to UC Davis to reveal that the Nutro canned was also contaminated? This company does not deserve a second chance. I hope they go out of business.
Comment by catlover — April 10, 2007 @ 6:21 pm
could this be a second shipment of WG out there? I can’t get past Nutro not pulling ALL of their food with WG on the first recall knowing they had other foods with WG in them. What made them limit the first recall?
Comment by straybaby — April 10, 2007 @ 6:21 pm
I don’t give a rat’s a$$ how many shipments are involved, this is completely inexcusable & irresponsible behavior on the part of Nutro.
Comment by catlover — April 10, 2007 @ 6:23 pm
actually, i was about to agree with you, except if there are other shipments, we need to know. now.
did ChemNurto bring it in also, or someone else? the FDA sure hasn’t been too on top of things. yes they are holding WG imports, but are they tracking and testing other earlier shipments or do they have tunnel vision on this? we still don’t know if they are checking into any of the other ingredients that China exports and ChemNutro imports.
So yes, Nutro SHOULD have pulled ALL WG recipes off the shelves, but what made them decide not to? And keep insisting their stuff was safe even after the recall expanded to non-menu produced food?
Comment by straybaby — April 10, 2007 @ 6:29 pm
Steve A - I found reports of people saying their animals BUN and creatinine levels were 5 times higher than normal.
A post from gothamist.com. This blog links to here but also, the blogger has done a survey of owners with brands of food. The dry food information is very interesting.
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Editor’s Note: This story has been updated since the first posting.
Several days ago, we started reading reports of dry food possibly making pets sick, specifically Iams. We then asked our readers to provide their experience to us. Here’s what we found:
Number of pets covered: 134 (47 cats, 87 dogs)
Reported ARF (Acute Renal Failure): 24 (17%) 15 cats, 9 dogs
Cat Deaths: 20 | Cat Illnesses: 26
Dog Deaths: 9 | Dog Illnesses: 77
Since our report, one DRY food from Hills has been recalled so far.
We caution you against accepting this as the final word as these are self-reported numbers from parents who have been reading about other sick or dying pets. Given the caveats, the brands that really stood out were Iams, Nutro, and Science Diet. We expected quite a few Iams reports since the survey results from posts about sick pets who ate Iams, (read about Menu Foods’ exclusive contract with Iams) but the Nutro reports seemed to have come from nowhere. Of the 5 reported deaths parents linked to Nutro, 3 were from Acute Renal Failure. 3 ARF deaths were reportedly linked with Science Diet and 7 were linked with Iams. There may be legitimate reason why some brands are on this list, for example, Science Diet may be recommended by vets to particularly sick pets.
Our numbers are not enough data to make any conclusive decision, but some correlations were highly troubling. We are highly in favor of a statistically correct and significant study of dry food-related problems. And we’d love to hear your thoughts in our comments.
Important note: If you feel that dry food is causing your pet to fall ill, please contact the FDA.
Number of Specific Cat Food Brand Reported: What to feed your cat
Iams: 17 (ARF: 5 dead, 1 sick)
Purina: 6 (ARF: 1 dead)
Science Diet: 5 (ARF: 3 dead)
Nutro: 4 (ARF: 1 dead, 1 sick)
Special Kitty: 3 (ARF: 1 dead, 2 sick)
Royal Canin: 1 (No ARF)
Number of Specific Dog Food Brand Reported: What to feed your dog
ARF reported:
Iams: 21 (ARF: 1 dead, 2 sick)
Nutro: 14 (ARF: 2 dead)
Ol’Roy: 5 (ARF: 1 dead)
Eukanuba: 2 (ARF: 1 sick)
No ARF reported:
Science Diet: 4
Pedigree: 2
Purina: 2
Authority: 1
Beneful: 1
Natural Balance: 1
Trader Joe’s: 1
Report your pet’s death or illness now.
Keen and Abby Gayle
[545] Posted by: MikeKeen | April 5, 2007 1:13 PM
Comment by Sharon — April 10, 2007 @ 6:29 pm
To straybaby - yes, you are correct, we do need to know all the shipments. Sorry for venting. My blood is boiling right now.
Comment by catlover — April 10, 2007 @ 6:30 pm
I don’t see this posted…. here is Nutro’s statement:
http://www.nutroproducts.com/press4-10-07.asp
Nutro Products Orders Removal of All Wet Pet Food Products Made by Menu Foods with Wheat Gluten
Nutro Dry Foods, Biscuits and Treats are NOT manufactured by Menu Foods
and are NOT Affected by Recall
City of Industry, Calif. (April 10, 2007)– Earlier today, Menu Foods expanded its recall of wet pet food products to include additional wet pet foods suspected of containing melamine from Chinese supplied wheat gluten.
Given this new information and the confusion in the marketplace, Nutro has ordered ALL Nutro wet pouched and canned foods made with wheat gluten be removed from store shelves regardless of the date of production and asks pet owners to stop feeding those products to their pets. Nutro is taking this action even though the Menu Foods press release indicates that only certain dates of production at its plant were affected.
“Pet owners are fed up with confusing information regarding the Menu Foods recall,” said Dave Kravis, President and CEO of Nutro Products. “I had previously ordered a broader recall of affected products than what Menu Foods had suggested. Given this new information from Menu Foods, I have ordered all wet pet food products containing wheat gluten to be removed from store shelves. Our dry pet food is not made by Menu and remains unaffected by the recall.”
As a result of this new information, Nutro has suspended all shipments to retail stores of Nutro’s wet canned and pouch products that contain wheat gluten until Nutro is able to confirm their safety.
Nutro Products is asking all customers who have the following Nutro wet pet food products (which are made by Menu Foods and contain wheat gluten) regardless of “best by date,” to immediately stop feeding the products to their pets.
All Cat Pouch Food Products
Listed Cat 3.0 oz can products
All Dog Pouch Food Products
Listed Dog 12.5 oz Canned Products
Comment by Kat — April 10, 2007 @ 6:34 pm
It was very thoughtful of the news media to get in a frenzy about who fathered a child on Anna Nicole Smith, this gave the latest recall news a way to slip a new recall in before Friday. I think there will be more bad news at ..oh. let me take a wild guess and say 4:45 Pm Friday.
And the pet food industry flunkies that are going to “testify”, fine bunch they are, not a chance in hell that the truth will get out with them covering butt.
Could that be why these “impartial” experts were the ones chosen to testify?
The FDA, heckava job, the senate, ditto, yeah, more government involvement, THAT will fix this whole problem, right.
Comment by E. Hamilton — April 10, 2007 @ 6:42 pm
i just read the new press release on nutro’s web site. http://www.nutroproducts.com
Comment by MARY ANN — April 10, 2007 @ 6:45 pm
Of interest for those feeding Nutro dry food.
http://hubpages.com/hub/PET_FO.....Y_DOG_FOOD
Comment by Ashlee — April 10, 2007 @ 6:46 pm
This fiasco is out of control.
Comment by Steve — April 10, 2007 @ 6:46 pm
There was a mass poisoning from rat poison (fluroacetamide) in China on Monday leaving one person dead and 202 others sick. It could not be ruled out yet whether it was intentional or not. More info at http://tinyurl.com/2pujcs I wonder if there could possibly be any association with that and the wheat gluten contamination?
Comment by Sue Dunn — April 10, 2007 @ 6:47 pm
Question, folks.
Where is all this recalled food going now?
Where is it going to go in the future?
Tell me it will be destroyed, please. That it will not end up being marketed anywhere, for any price, at any time.
Until then, I’m going to worry.
Shari
Comment by Shari Mann — April 10, 2007 @ 6:52 pm
Steve A - I have a few questions…How often is your vet hydrating your cat?….How long before the renal failure did your cat have the Feline Senior Blood Screening?…..What was the Creatinine and BUN at the time of Feline Senior Blood Screening?
Comment by Terry — April 10, 2007 @ 6:54 pm
“Pet owners are fed up with confusing information regarding the Menu Foods recall,” said Dave Kravis, President and CEO of Nutro Products. “I had previously ordered a broader recall of affected products than what Menu Foods had suggested. Given this new information from Menu Foods, I have ordered all wet pet food products containing wheat gluten to be removed from store shelves. Our dry pet food is not made by Menu and remains unaffected by the recall.”
The bottom line, Dave, is that despite all this professed concern, the full-page ad, yada, yada, you were still selling tainted Nutro brand well past the original recall date…
What’s that, Nutro… you actually don’t have meaningful control over what your “co-manufacturers” are putting into packages labeled as “Nutro”? And even a few weeks into the biggest pet food recall in US history you don’t know what your partner already put into packages with your name on them… packages that you assured us were safe?
I *might* consider buying Nutro food again when it is unambiguously labeled “SAFE FOR HUMAN CONSUMPTION.”
Comment by David — April 10, 2007 @ 6:56 pm
Mr Kravis’ disingenuous statement makes me want to puke. So its Menu Foods fault huh? Where does your responsibility begin? You could have done the right thing and recalled all your food. Plenty of people reported sick animals to your company relating to the cans, lots of folks like me asked for details on your cans, but you just sat back with your big salary and stock options, and let our pets die.
As far as I’m concerned you are worse than Menu Foods because recalling bad product was under YOUR control not theirs. And you put profits before people and their pets. I wonder how many stock options you exercised in the last few weeks.
Mr. Kravis, your companies behavior has been desipicable. I hope when you go to sleep at night that your dreams are filled with the sound of animals in pain and the sobs of heartbroken pet owners.
Comment by Andrea — April 10, 2007 @ 6:57 pm
My heart goes out to all where ever you are.
Please, please ,please do not use any food brand that is even remotely connected to those on the list.
No Nutro of any kind, No Iams or Eukanuba of any kind. No store brands, grocery or Walmart. No treats, bones or biscuits. No dry, can or pouch.
There are a few independent brands available. Make sure there is no wheat, corn, gluten of any kind including rice gluten and corn gluten.
Two brands I use are: Canidae for dogs and Felidae for cats, Dick van Patten Natural Balance dry dog and cat, can dog and cat. If you can afford it their Eatables line, the loaf, and the Roll-A-Round treat (Lamb, Lamb hearts, Lamb kidneys, Lamb lungs) these are the first four ingreds. No wheat, corn, soy, eggs or dairy in this treat. Read the labels closely for their other pkgs of the dry and can. It can vary.
Find out where the other companies are, who does the actual processing, who are their suppliers and where the raw material comes from. Then check back here before you buy. Or ask here about some homecook sites.
Comment by Kathi — April 10, 2007 @ 7:01 pm
Tell me it will be destroyed, please. That it will not end up being marketed anywhere, for any price, at any time.
Comment by Shari Mann — April 10, 2007 @ 6:52 pm
Have a history lesson.
Here is the following paragraph, page 8
4. Inventory Write-down. At December 31, 2005 Menu still had inventory on hand thatrelated to pre-May 20, 2003 (the date when a single case of Bovine SpongiformEncephalopathy was discovered in Alberta). Since this inventory was not saleable in theUnited States, it proved to be a challenge to sell in the normal channels available to Menu. Throughout 2005, as efforts to sell this inventory were underway, Menu made provisionsamounting to $0.9 million
http://tinyurl.com/yr9zr2
Comment by Steve — April 10, 2007 @ 7:05 pm
The post by Sharon on dry food reports is originally from itchmo.com . You can find it here:
http://www.itchmo.com/read/vol.....s_20070328
A bunch of blog owners are about to coordinate a central location where folks can report their suspicions about non-recalled foods causing illness and deaths. I’m sure you’ll see info on that posted here soon…
Comment by Kim — April 10, 2007 @ 7:07 pm
Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy AKA Mad Cow
Comment by Steve — April 10, 2007 @ 7:11 pm
Hows the ChemNutra investigation going?
Comment by Steve — April 10, 2007 @ 7:23 pm
http://www.newstarget.com/021784.html
Monsanto’s GM corn MON863 shows kidney, liver toxicity in animal studies
Forgive me if already posted.
Comment by DeeAnn — April 10, 2007 @ 7:33 pm
Can’t find a couple of comments posted on Sunday (I think) where we were talking about the South Dakota plant.
Why on earth would we believe that plant didn’t get any of this wheat gluten?
Comment by Kim — April 10, 2007 @ 7:35 pm
Please
I’ve checked various newspaper and tv stations from smaller towns across the country and Canada. I’m hearing complaints about just dry and just canned of all kinds of popular brands. Iams, Eukanuba, NUTRO (POISON), Fancy Feast Elegant Medley, Special Kitty, Purina, Ol Roy, Sophisticat. Some of these people didn’t report, didn’t know, didn’t have the money, didn’t save the packages or cans, didn’t know who to tell. Some media haven’t reported anything since the end of March. Some only reported a handful of products that the stores called in to warn the public. Many vets were clueless and didn’t know about the recall. Many stores put the poison back on the shelves with SALE signs.
And I don’t believe any of these CEO’s know how to tell the truth. It’s like a foreign language to them.
I wouldn’t be surprised if any one announced running for public office.
It’s up to us. Tell someone and ask them to tell others.
There are a few posts today that lists the parent corps and all the brands they own. Copy the list and do not buy from them. Tell everyone you know and pass out the copies.
So far none of these IDIOTS have been forthright.
Comment by Kathi — April 10, 2007 @ 7:36 pm
They spoke way too soon about their foods being safe again.
Comment by Eskie Lover — April 10, 2007 @ 7:39 pm
If anyone is interested, I found a website that shows screen captures of the AP changing their story in a hurry in regards to using the figure of 39,000 pets sickened or killed.
http://tinyurl.com/32dljq
Comment by Christi Alcox — April 10, 2007 @ 7:42 pm
A small local feed store in my town has pallets full of recalled food setting out behind their store under an awning, but not secured in any way. It just happens that behind this store (seperated by a small fence) is low income/senior housing (apartments). I guess if it were me, and I had no money, and I was struggling to survive, I wouldn’t hesitate to “stop by” the back of that store and help myself. I will be dropping by for a chat with the manager first thing in the morning!
Comment by Natalie Sharpes — April 10, 2007 @ 7:44 pm
If Nutro had *thoroughly* checked out the rest of the canned food products that their partner, Menu, had already produced but assured them was safe, we would have known long ago about the 13 Nutro cat food “flavors” that were recalled today. This is what I find unforgivable. Nutro had the opportunity to exercise extra caution (would McDonald’s, for example, have dropped this particular ball?) but apparently did not. How many lab tests would all of those full page ads last week bought…?
Comment by David — April 10, 2007 @ 7:50 pm
You all NEED to check this out! Menu Foods has updated a WHOLE BUNCH of brand names — besides the Press Release items:
http://www.menufoods.com/recall/product_cat.html
http://www.menufoods.com/recall/product_dog.html
http://www.menufoods.com/recal.....Canada.htm
open each in different browser windows & you can compare….
Comment by Kat — April 10, 2007 @ 7:53 pm
my thing is okay if your pet food is made by menu and wheat gluten is used in it, why not recall all wheat gluten products to begin with. It just makes sense.
-(dog food nutrition)
abratnamednoel@aol.com
Comment by Eskie Lover — April 10, 2007 @ 7:56 pm
abrat…. It makes sense if you have a sense of decency and morality. It doesn’t make sense if your only motive is $$$.
Comment by Andrea — April 10, 2007 @ 8:07 pm
Oh, how SMARMY is that statement from Dave Kravis?!? And how condescending is he to think we don’t see through his pitiful and disgusting attempts to appear pro-active? PRO-ACTIVE!? This from a company that refused to take its tainted products off the shelves even after receiving numerous reports of deaths and illness due to those very products. PRO-ACTIVE!? This from a company that wouldn’t act until one of its grief-stricken customers had to arrange for private testing herself to prove the inclusion of poison in products deemed “safe.” PRO-ACTIVE?! How can you claim to be pro-active when you haven’t even gotten to RESPONSIVE??
Nutro’s behavior is as filthy and poisonous as their food.
Comment by Russell — April 10, 2007 @ 8:23 pm
What’s the difference between menadione and folic acid menadione? Does anyone know? I’ve noticed that the latter is mentioned as one of the ingredients in our dry food.
Comment by Julia — April 10, 2007 @ 8:30 pm
The post by Sharon on dry food reports is originally from itchmo.com . You can find it here:
http://www.itchmo.com/read/vol.....s_20070328
A bunch of blog owners are about to coordinate a central location where folks can report their suspicions about non-recalled foods causing illness and deaths. I’m sure you’ll see info on that posted here soon…
Thank you for posting that. I am still waiting for Del Monte to fess up about their 9 lives Shredded Turkey with Gravy canned food. I got an email today from someone who read a post I made on a forum about that brand. Her cat has been in acute renal failure for the past week and on fluids at her local animal hospital. She said that Del Monte was looking into that flavor of canned cat food. She also said her vet is sending the food out to be tested. I asked her to keep me posted. If it comes back positive for melamine I will post it to Itchmo.
There is way more coverup ongoing in this mess.
I expect Del Monte to announce a recall of some of it’s canned food next. There are several that have wheat gluten in them.
Lil Bear died in early March after eating the Shredded Turkey with Gravy off and on for a couple months. I had no idea what killed him until this all started. I am still trying to prove 9 lives/Del Monte is responsible for a healthy, loving 7 yr old cat all of a sudden having seizures, not wanting to eat and drinking gallons of water, and crying constantly. My poor lil boy….I am still so angry…
Comment by Lil Bear's Momma — April 10, 2007 @ 8:31 pm
This whole thing reminds me of the movie “Runaway Train” … ain’t no stopping it :(
Comment by Kat — April 10, 2007 @ 8:31 pm
Terry: We are “filling the kitty” twice a week on the vet direction, sub-cu saline standard lactated ringers, 100ml per treatment. We asked if it should be more often given the clear dehydration indicated by the BUN. She reiterated twice a week.
The cat is also drinking more water than before and we are certainly going through litter faster now than before. The problem is that she cannot concentrate the urine, which seems to be common to the symptoms here.
I am going to get copies of the test results from the vet, but have been working 12 hour days since this started to pick up… Not because of pet food, but because the 787 needs to be delivered on time, we’re ahead, and we’re going to stay ahead.
Until I get the actual test results I only know absolutely the numbers from the last test.
We never had a senior screening before the renal failure, why do a senior test on a healthy 8-year-old cat. Before I got more interested in the numbers, but at the moment the recall was anounced we had her litter-mate sister tested and she does not show elevated levels. I will also be getting her test results when I have time to pick up the copies…
The numbers I gave were from the last screening made about 10 weeks after the initial diagnosis, BUN(78), Creatinine(7.9)
Comment by steve a — April 10, 2007 @ 8:33 pm
It’s really funny that Nutro came out with the latest statement today - Nutro’s insurance company contacted me yesterday trying to get a recorded statement - NOT!! Is this another damage control agenda?????
Comment by Sandi Schreiber — April 10, 2007 @ 8:49 pm
Nutro had obviously not tested its other products containing wheat gluten and manufactured by Menu Foods almost a month after the initial recall. It took the determination of unfortunate pet parents to have it tested and get to the bottom of the cover up. The question I have is:
On what basis did Nutro repeatedly advise consumers that all foods not on recall list “are safe to feed pets”?
The pet food industry is beyond redemption on this one, scoundrels and weasels of the worse imaginable kind.
Comment by Frank — April 10, 2007 @ 9:11 pm
My prayers go out to all of you and your pets who are battling the evils of this pet food. Because of all the help I haved received from the folks at pet connection, my 6 cats are faring somewhat well. Bless you pet connection!!
For those who are having oddball readings with BUN and Creatinine from bloodwork, ask your vets to do a urine specific gravity test as well as a urine test to screen for microalbuminaria. The urines seem to produce more accurate and definitive readings than some of the bloodwork.
I am blown away by NUTRO. I still say beware their dry food. I still have the bag that none of my cats would eat, the ferrals wouldn’t touch AND the RACOONS would not eat….and racoons will just about eat anything. Something to be said for an animals keen sense of smell. Hopefully, the sense of smell will have saved some feline and canine lives. This is a horror show…..
Comment by Peg — April 10, 2007 @ 9:21 pm
Well, I wish they had recalled these canned foods sooner. My two kittens were on Nutro Natural Choice Complete Kitten Care Chicken and Lamb, which of course was just added today. My 10 week old kittens didn’t live long enough to see their food FINALLY recalled. Does anybody understand the guilt I feel when I think that they were eating poison that I so lovingly gave them?
Comment by Debbie — April 10, 2007 @ 9:37 pm
RE: When a well-packaged web of spin has been spun gradually to the public such as we have seen since March 16, the truth will seem utterly preposterous and its speaker a raving lunatic.
Comment by Steve — April 10, 2007 @ 6:16 pm
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That is quite similar to what I’ve been thinking - only my version is a bit cruder.
I figure we’ll have to wait a year, until all the research is done. All the i’s are dotted, the t’s are crossed… more editing… a new regime in the white house… before they come clean.
And, then it’ll be something stupid like “we could not confirm or deny” blah, blah, blah.
And, the dumbest part about it — WE PAY THEM TO BE THE WAY THEY ARE!!!!!
Comment by Kat — April 10, 2007 @ 9:45 pm
If I hear that the recall still only involves 1% of the pet food sold in the US, I am going to start to vomit! I just looked at the ‘updated’ list on the avma web site and it is extraordinary in length! Can you imagine if this was human food ??? It would be a feeding frenzy for the old media - we wouldn’t know Larry Birkhead was daddy until DannyLynne was 21!!!
Comment by Jeanine — April 10, 2007 @ 9:53 pm
steve a: “We asked if it should be more often given the clear dehydration indicated by the BUN. She reiterated twice a week.”
steve a, I had two CRF kitties two years ago. I’m no expert by any means but within the CRF group, they felt 100 ml twice a week is about next to nothing. Seems the average is about 75-100 ml daily. But, perhaps your vet may have a good reason for twice a week.
I’d suggest joining the Yahoo felineCRF group, they are about the best.
http://tinyurl.com/2433nh
Comment by Gary — April 10, 2007 @ 10:10 pm
CANADA PETITION FOR ACTION:
We are concerned Canadian pet owners and lovers who are
shocked, saddened and angry at the recent events concerning
the numerous pet food recalls, primarily involving Canadian-based
Menu Foods of Streetsville, Ontario.
The pet food industry in Canada is currently self-regulated,
leaving companies like Menu Foods to police themselves. But
with the sheer scope and size of this recall, the delays in
responding to consumer complaints received early on, the delays
in releasing vital information to consumers, and with Menu Foods
still not disclosing true numbers of how many pet deaths and
illnesses are reportedly linked to their products, clearly
self-regulation isn’t working for Canadians or their pets.
We need more stringent laws and regulations to prevent such a
dangerous and deadly tragedy recurring. The purpose of this
website is to provide an online petition as a voice for Canadians
who want changes made to the pet food industry through
increased government control and legislation.
http://www.laws4paws.ca:80/
Comment by mal — April 10, 2007 @ 10:10 pm
There was a link in an earlier post regarding Nutro dry dog food. I thought I was paranoid because I kept complaining that my three dogs were “kinda ill” drinking much more water, vomiting (but not every day, every one of them) and was told by the vet they were fine.
I followed my gut feeling and switched all three to California Natural, and the vomiting is gone, and they’re back to being bouncy happy again.
The Nutro food did not contain either wheat or wheat gluten, and the link posted earlier had comments from lots of people whose dogs were doing the same thing—unfortunately, some of them died. So whatever has been going on with the Nutro dry, does not involve wheat.
Comment by carly — April 10, 2007 @ 10:16 pm
Here was some info I posted earlier on the South Dakota plant:
hat does Menu Foods South Dakota to do with all this?
Menu Foods South Dakota Inc Krull, Peter NORTH SIOUX CITY South Dakota 57049 Feed 12/31/2007
South Dakota Department of Agriculture
Feed/Fertilizer License Search
http://www.state.sd.us/doa/das.....order=Name
http://www.siouxlandchamber.co.....ecordid=20
Menu’s production facilities are located in Emporia, Kansas; Pennsauken, New Jersey; North Sioux City, South Dakota; and Streetsville, Ontario. The plants produce wet pet food in aluminum and steel cans at a rate of 1,000 cans per minute, or 1,110 85-gram pouches per minute. Jointly, the plants are able to produce over one billion containers a year.[8]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Menu_Foods
Does the South Dakota Plant only produce for Iams or do they produce for other suppliers as well. Why has this plant not been mentioned in all the news especially since a lot of Iams product was recalled? When Menu Foods bought this plant from P&G (Iams) in 2003, they acquired the 10 year contract to produce all the Iams pet food. As this is where P&G made all their Imas would it not make sense that the Iams is all still being produced there?
The more I look into this the more ??????? I get
Comment by mal — April 7, 2007 @ 8:56 am
Comment by mal — April 10, 2007 @ 10:33 pm
This is still up on the web -
http://www.startribune.com/484/story/1110143.html
*Pet food contaminated
with an industrial chemical may have
sickened or killed 39,000 cats and dogs
nationwide, based on an extrapolation from
data released Monday by one of the nation’s
largest chains of veterinary hospitals.*
Comment by Mary Smith — April 10, 2007 @ 10:36 pm
Debbie, you said “Does anybody understand the guilt I feel when I think that they were eating poison that I so lovingly gave them?”
Sadly, thousands of us do. {{{HUGS}}}
Comment by Kim — April 10, 2007 @ 10:37 pm
I am Sos Sos Sos SAD Today!! To think the pet food i gave my Cat Killed her.. I am really Really Crushed.. I miss My Cat Miss Cuddles I Love HER.. I am more and More SAD EVERY DAY!
Comment by kelly B — April 10, 2007 @ 10:46 pm
Kelly,
Even though Cuddles can NEVER be replaced,
a new kitten in the house may help ease the pain of loss you feel.
I’ve lost many, many dear furballs and each one was oh sooo special
to me, but the love of a new friend did help ease the pain.
I’m soo sorry that your friend is not beside you tonight.
Huggs
Comment by Mary Smith — April 10, 2007 @ 11:03 pm
Hey….Menu, Nutro, FDA, Pet food Industry…..
TAKE A LOOK AT THIS SITE
Debbie’s 10 week old kittens are gone
Miss Cuddles is gone
Shelter cats and dogs…with a really tough life to begin with….gone
Thousands of dogs and cats are gone!!! Can you hear us??? THOUSANDS…..GONE
We wanted to give our pets enriched lives like they enrich ours. We relied on you slobs to help us do the very best we could to care for are animals.
Instead….you made helped us sicken and kill them….your greed is pathetic. Oh and yeah…China is THE place to go for healthy ingredients.
Hugs to all who have lost pets and who are caring for ill pets.
Comment by Peg — April 10, 2007 @ 11:26 pm
I haven’t been posting for the last few days as it is Spring Break here and all 6 of my children are home. I am reading posts as often as I can, and now since the brood is sleeping I will post just one tidbit of info I found encouraging this week.
Scouring this site, the net and calling around to every company I could get a number for; I had compiled a list of canned cat food I was willing to give a try with Nick. Well PetCo only carries Natural Balance, which is fine, however Nick will only eat one flavor of their wet (he loves the dry though). I went into Carter’s because the Felidae site said that they carried it. Well much to my surprise (and happiness) they also carry Merrick, Chicken Soup, Eagle Pak and a few other “small” brands I was looking into.
The fabulous info though is posted in large, bold face print on every shelf of wet and dry cat/dog food they carry, is a notice saying that although Menu Foods has varieties of pet food not affected by the recall Carter’s recommends for the safety of your pets …DO NOT buy any of the foods Menu makes. Well AMEN to that!
Comment by Amy Boda — April 11, 2007 @ 12:36 am
I do not think the problem is just menufoods and I will tell you why.
I lost two cats and that damned sure WAS menufoods and the contaminated pouches and canned food.
But…I have, as of today ( I have to think, yes, today I have them still, it may not be so tomorrow), a large dog who showed almost identical symptoms and she only ate Beneful or Pedigree dry food!
I quit feeding Purina foods, of any kind, and I hope that I quit in time to save the dog. I see the change in her, I saw it within HOURS, she is better and the only change was the food.
Something got loose in the pet food industry, maybe melamine, maybe GM grain, maybe the evil in their shriveled dark hearts leached into the food, I don’t know what it is, I don’t think THEY know what it is.
It is in the dry food too.
I do know it kills and it hurts and it isn’t done yet.
I am not done either.
I don’t think I will ever be able to look back on this and laugh but someday, I am going to look back on this and know that I DID something to stop it. Puts me way out front of the pet food industry already and light years beyond a smiling and lying CEO.
Comment by E. Hamilton — April 11, 2007 @ 1:23 am
Although I’m over in the UK, I feel for you all, and I’m really worried that this may spread to the UK and just get covered up. The corporations over here are a lot better at it than in the US :(
I reckon we need a website listing ways we can make home-made pet food from human-fit ingredients. If we cook it ourselves, we’ll have a better chance of knowing what’s in it.
Meantime, I’m sending an email to all the companies whose food my cat eats, as follows;
“Hi - I’d be grateful if you could confirm that none of your ingredients are sourced from Menu Foods, Nutro or ChemNutra ? A possible cause is Chinese and/or Canadian GM wheat gluten. I’m concerned, as these companies have been involved in the major recall in the US and Canada involving pet foods (latest figure - 39,000 dead cats & dogs).
Thanks for your help !
Sean”
Whether they’ll tell the truth or not, I don’t know, but it’ll be interesting to see what response I get. Meantime, I’m chucking out the supposedly UK-produced Hills & IAMS I’ve got in the cupboard.
Comment by Alonicus — April 11, 2007 @ 5:12 am
Can anyone direct me to a list of ALL foods made by menu foods (not just recalled foods)? I realize other companies got the wheat gluten, and that some dry food is involved. But this latest recall, after “prompting” by the fda, after a family had food privately tested, just pushed me over the edge. menu knew they had bad wheat gluten on or before March 6 (when they changed suppliers), and 5 weeks later they’re still “identifying” where all the bad wheat gluten went?! We need to boycott them until they are so financially destitute they have to sell their plants, hopefully to a company that actually cares about pets’ wellbeing.
Comment by Nancy — April 11, 2007 @ 8:25 am
Nancy - I haven’t seen one, but emailed thepetfoodlist.com yesterday to see if they plan to do one, if not I will.
Comment by Kim — April 11, 2007 @ 9:26 am
Lil Bear’s Momma: I’m interested in 9 Lives Shredded Turkey in Gravy (DelMonte product)canned food also. That’s ***exclusively*** what I fed my cat for years!
You may have read an earlier post by me that I emailed & called DelMonte on Fri., March 30, to ask the country of origin of their wheat/wheat gluten and was given evasive, scripted answers that “DelMonte does not procure any FINISHED ingredients from Menu Foods.” I told her that I read right through the “weasel words” of saying “finished products,” so I asked about **individual** ingredients, and the issue was side stepped. I read through the feeble attempt by DelMonte’s spin doctor on the website and told them that I had enough information (the lack thereof) from them to immediately take my cat off of 9 Lives canned food. Just as I expected, the next day, Sat., Mar. 31, DelMonte announced a recall, not of 9 Lives canned, but other items.
My cat is now going to the vet for higher than normal BUN & creatinine levels. Please post your info here as well.
Comment by petlover — April 11, 2007 @ 12:57 pm
At this point does anyone out there honestly believe that had they started home cooking for their pets on the day of the first recall their pets would be worse off than continuing to play what is, in effect, Russian Roulette with commercial foods? Reading blog after blog and article after article it is clear that something new started being added to commercial petfoods (wet and dry) around the first of the year. The stories of pet animals having been on a single brand and type of food for years and then getting sick or refusing food from a newly opened bag or can or pouch is just too much of a coincidence to be coincidence!
We’re not talking about feeding them a daily diet of big macs and tacos here! Some animals are more willing to accept new foods than others but if we merely feed them healthy food like we eat they will not be poisoned while all these “investigations” continue. Especially for dogs, a couple cups of cooked pasta or potatoes mixed with cooked ground beef, turkey or pork and some soft cooked veggies like beans or carrots and maybe an egg is certainly not going to kill pets. What is on the store shelves might. More complex recipes involving organ meats and other stuff is for the more experienced home cook. Keep it simple for now.
My cats have been eating bitty pieces of white meat of chicken mostly cooked and once in a while raw, and are very happy at mealtime. My oldest cat, as a matter of fact, is spunkier and more playful than he’s been for ages. Once or twice a week I may offer them sliced cooked chicken livers or slow cooked beef or pork stew meat flaked and so soft it melts in their mouths along with a little warm meat juice. This can be cooked and frozen into small packets so you’re not having to cook every day.
I am also supplementing with a holistic cat and dog food from a small company that I believe to be producing safe product, but it is difficult to get and very costly.
None of this crisis management that we as concerned pet owners must now do (because others did not) is easy or inexpensive. Following this unfolding crisis and taking action has become almost a full time job for some of us. Many people unfortunately have neither the time or resources to to this. A country that loves its animals as we do must demand that safe and cost effective pet food be produced and available to the masses. But for now that it is not the case.
Comment by elizabeth R — April 11, 2007 @ 2:23 pm
The following frozen pet food website may be helpful..If anyone has tried their selections, please let us know.
http://www.prweb.com/releases/.....517555.htm
Comment by Bee — April 12, 2007 @ 12:07 pm
Will someone report back how the hearing went. I believe this person will be testifying today in a hearing before Congress…Hope she will be able to shed some light on the problems and have a solution. I think the article says she previously worked a while at Hill’s ???Thanks
http://www.tennessean.com/apps.....10449/1008
Comment by Bee — April 12, 2007 @ 12:58 pm