I'm keeping this separate from the old news thread and main post for now, but as there is a chance this may be related it's worth keeping an eye on.

Reportedly, since 30 March 2007 Manna-Pro has recalled its Unimilk formula for baby goats/calves/etc. due to it changing to the wrong colour when reconstituted; there are also incidential reports of ( Read more... )

Major news update for the pet food recall ticker and the original post:

a) An International Herald-Tribune article gives a stunning and shocking expose of melamine doping--and it confirms several of our worst fears:

1) Melamine doping is extremely widespread in China and in fact is routine with practically all grain products (including wheat, soy ( Read more... )

A fairly major update for the news ticker:

Again, if you are not doing so, I am imploring the readers of this list to consider not purchasing pork products (including not only pork, sausage and bacon but also other products from pigs including scrapple, lard, etc.) unless you know the supplier and know they are not using salvaged pet feed as an ( Read more... )

We have a metric tonne of updates to the news ticker:

a) All three of the "big three" pet food processing companies in the US (Menu Foods, Diamond, and American Nutrition) are now known to have received contaminated Chinese grain products; in a particularly disturbing move, American Nutrition has apparently been adding rice gluten to pet food ( Read more... )

Yes, note the change in title. 's important.

Major news in this round of updates to the news ticker post and original post1) The news we dreaded is getting far, far worse ( Read more... )

For those watching, I have rather substantially updated the list of safe pet foods after researching at thepetfoodlist.com re manufacturers. (Most of the "presumed safe" pet foods have proven out to be safe, and we have quite a few more options--mostly in the raw diet category, but at least the stuff ain't poisoned :D ( Read more... )

As there's been a bit of confusion--not to mention occasional umbrage and even accusations of paranoia on various threads I've been involved in re the pet food recall and my own list of "safe", "potentially safe" and non-listings of other foods--I figured it is time for an explanatory post on just WHAT criteria I am using ( Read more... )

The big news with both the news post and the original recall post is...well, I'm afraid it's not good news, folks.

Unless you are pretty sure your pet is only eating pet food with:

a) domestically sourced grain products *only* and have verified this with the produceror ( Read more... )

Apologies for the third post--this is turning out to be a busy news day, unfortunately.

Pet food news post updated with two particularly disturbing bits of news ( Read more... )

(Apologies for the short update in the last post.)

Anyways, both the news post and the main post have been updated (and further updates are likely on the main list ( Read more... )