Regional Recall of Pet Food by Wal-Mart
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Wal-Mart is issuing a regional recall for some dog food because of concern about salmonella contamination. This recall is exclusive of the safety concerns of imported products from China. The Wal-Mart recall is separate from that matter:
“Only a single batch of 55-pound bags of Ol’ Roy Complete Nutrition dog food is being recalled. The dog food was produced at a plant in Manassas and distributed to 69 Wal-Mart stores in Virginia, West Virginia, Maryland, Pennsylvania, North Carolina and Ohio. Forty of the stores are in Virginia.”
link: Wal-Mart Pet Food Supplier Recalls Some Dog Food
One thing to keep in mind is that the salmonella problem can impact humans who have handled the food. It does make one wonder how safe any of this mass manufactured pet food really is.
Catherine Forsythe
[tags]wal-mart, pet food, regional recall, dogs, humans, salmonella, fda[/tags]
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Jay
June 8th, 2007
at 6:27pm
I lived near a rendering plant out in the country years ago, and the smell alone carried for miles, if people ever saw the kind of foul, petrid, or rotting animal carcasses and slaughterhouse waste by-products that goes through the rendering processes, and ultimately ends up in their pets’ food, nobody in their right minds would feel safe feeding any of it to their pets. The wheat gluten recall is just the tip of the iceberg…