Cancer Drug Aminopterin Taints Menu Pet Foods
By now you’ve probably heard that the substance tainting all the Menu food is a drug used to fight cancer and outlawed for use on food products in the States. And the source country for this tainted wheat? China, a country not generally thought of as producing safe food products for export or being particularly dog-friendly.
Nikki Weidner of Howl911 barked in some thoughts with which I agree. BTW, Howl911 is doing a great job of staying on top of the Menu Recall!
Nikki Weidner wrote:
Hi Joy,
Is it any surprise that China is the source of the poisoning that caused so much death and tragedy for so many dogs and cats in this country & Canada? Combine this with China’s dog meat trade, pet fur trade and the brutal slaughter of tens of thousands of healthy, unaffected dogs as a “solution” to China’s rabies outbreak.How in the world can the FDA approve any U.S. food production, be it for pets or humans, when some of the ingredients are coming from nations such as China, where poisons like aminopterin are allowed, yet are illegal in this country? Something is terribly, terribly wrong with this.
I am so ANGRY now I could just scream. Why would Menu Foods buy their wheat ingredients from China? Only one answer to that question: it was probably the CHEAPEST source they could find. So much for their statements regarding commitment to quality. Yeah, right.
I think you hit a lot of on-the-nose truth! Thanks!
Here’s an article discussing the poison found in the Menu pet food.
Thanks to MSNBC for this article.
Experts: More deaths from pet food are likely
Contamination still a mystery as at least 16 animal fatalities are reportedMarch 24, 2007
ALBANY, N.Y. - Pet owners were rechecking their cabinets and threatening legal action after state officials said rat poison was found in pet food blamed for the deaths of at least 16 cats and dogs.It was unclear how many deaths would eventually be linked to the “cuts and gravy style food produced by Menu Foods, but scientists said Friday they expected more would be announced.
The substance in the food was identified as aminopterin, a cancer drug that once was used to induce abortions in the United States and is still used to kill rats in some other countries, state Agriculture Commissioner Patrick Hooker said.
The federal government prohibits using aminopterin for killing rodents in the U.S. State officials would not speculate on how the poison got into the pet food, but said no criminal investigations had been launched.
The pet deaths led to a recall of 60 million cans and pouches of dog and cat food the company produced and sold throughout North America.
After Friday’s announcement, Menu Foods food advised retailers to remove all brands from their shelves, a company spokesman said, though the recall still applies only to the dog and cat foods identified on its Web site since March 16. Those cover cans and pouches of food packaged from Dec. 3 through March 6.
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The one and only time I ever fed him canned food, and it killed him.
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So if I told you that the official Chinese news agency ran a story in October 2006 calling the techniques used for the application of pesticides on grains “irrational” and that authorities were worried that consumers could get seriously sick, you wouldn’t be surprised.
We lost our furfriend just before Thanksgiving last year.
We have watched in horror as many of the food we fed her has appeared on the recall list.
It saddens and angers us how this story continues to be under-reported (16 animals - yeah right). Our hearts go out to everyone who is struggling with the life and death decisions that are resulting from simply feeding your pets their food.
USA Today broke the news today that the self-reported death toll to Dr. Becker’s database
http://www.petconnection.com
is now over 1,300.
AOL picked up on the USA Today story too.
So much for our government and their regulations.
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