UPDATE: Cause of Pet Food Recall Finally Known

FDA and Menu Foods Both Have Conferences to Break the News on March 23rd

The recent recall of 60 million containers of pet food was enough to scare American pet owners, but now they are in complete shock at what was found in their pet's food. After scientists at the New York State Animal Health Diagnostic Center at Cornell and at the New York State Food Laboratory tested the recalled pet food they found Aminopterin in two out of three tested containers. What is Aminopterin you maybe asking? Aminopterin is rat poison, but how did rat poison end up in pet food? Menu Foods who has produced the 60 million recalled containers has no idea. They were first claiming that a new supplier of wheat gluten maybe the one to blame, but scientists say that wheat gluten couldn't have these affects on pets. Also there would be no reason for Aminopterin to be found in wheat gluten. Even if crop owners were using Aminopterin to rid their crops of rodents there would be no need to cover the entire crop. Many farmers may have sections of their farm that contain poison, but it shouldn't have been all over the crops in question.

This also brings up another good point. Aminopterin has not been registered for American use. Another interesting fact is that Aminopterin is also a cancer drug and any amount is deadly to pets and will cause kidney failure. High doses of Aminopterin are deadly to anyone, so why was this drug in pet food and how did it get there? These are questions that will have to be answered, especially now that Menu Foods is facing lawsuits from pet owners who recently lost their pets, due to the pet food manufactured by Menu Foods.

Menu Foods is working hard to ensure that Americans know which foods have been recalled. At their website (http://tinyurl.com/2pn6mm), you will find a complete list of the 95 brands of pet food that have been recalled. Once you click on a brand you will find the code number and description of the product that has been recalled. Do not take this recall lightly. It has been reported that 15 cats and one dog have already died of kidney failure. Do you really want to take that chance with your pet?