Melamine in Pet Food Recall Breaking News!

Shocking new news and many questions surround the Pet Food Recall travesty.

U.S. government testing found melamine - a chemical used to make plastics, laminates, and fertilizer - in samples of the Menu Foods pet food. It was also found in the "filler" ingredient, wheat gluten, traced to a supplier in China.

FDA officials said that in independent tests, Cornell University scientists also found melamine in the urine of sick cats and in the kidney of one cat that died after eating the company's wet food.

Stephen Sundlof, Director of the FDA's Center for Veterinary Medicine, said there was an "undeniable" connection between the melamine in the cats' urine and the melamine in the pet food. Uncertain whether the melamine caused the deaths, the FDA hasn't determined how the substance got into the pet food in the first place.

CAUTION: Wheat gluten is used as an ingredient in BOTH wet and dry dog food and cat food.

My personal advice:
Don't feed your dog or cat anything manufactured by Menu Foods. Use the links in our earlier posts to check for your brand name, and make sure that Menu Foods does NOT manufacture the product you are using (wet or dry).

FDA officials said scientists are no longer investigating any connection between the deaths and the rat poison aminopterin.