Pet Food Recall: All You Need to Know and More

The word is pretty much out about the Menu Foods pet food recall but conscientious consumers should continue to keep up to date and alert to any new discoveries on the matter.

Menu Foods, a manufacturer of over 90 popular brands of canned wet cat and dog foods made a national announcement March 16, 2007 that they were recalling several of their products. The products in question carry such known brand names as Iams, Eukenuba and Paws and have been linked to incidents of illness and death, as a direct result of kidney failure in cats and dogs across the country.

Despite a universal sympathy toward this tragedy from US pet owners in general, those who were fortunate enough not to be affected by this crisis took some comfort in the fact that dry food was not a risk. That is, until just a few days ago. Recently, Hill's Pet Nutrition of Topeka, Kansas was forced to also recall their products after the United States Food and Drug Administration's (FDA) testing found that some of their products, too, were tainted. The brand they have so far determined to be a problem is called Prescription Diet m/d Feline and it is dry cat food that is sold through veterinarians only as opposed to public retail locations. So this one should be a little easier to realize you have and a little harder to accidentally newly obtain.