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« Reply #345 on: October 09, 2008, 02:10:25 PM »

IF you go to www.recalls.org and choose Veterinary & 2008 it will get you there, but I'm not finding it in the list now.  I looked through all of 08 twice and did a search, but still didn't see it.  I must be overlooking it somehow. 

I'll go to the FDA recall site and check there.  They should have the same info on there.


ETA - found it, it's NutrA Nuggets, which is a different brand.  It says Oct. 08 expiration date, so I'm assuming it's a continuing recall from last year?  Experts?  Details:

"PRODUCT Diamond Pet Foods Nutra Nuggets Lamb Meal and Rice formula dog food in 40 lb. yellow and green paper bag,
CODE Production codes of NLR0404A2SL or NLR0404B2SL, “Best Before” Oct. 9, 2008
RECALLING FIRM/MANUFACTURER Diamond Pet Foods, Lathrop, CA,
REASON Product is contaminated with melamine.
VOLUME OF PRODUCT IN COMMERCE 6,064 units
DISTRIBUTION Nationwide and Canada"

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« Reply #346 on: October 09, 2008, 02:16:40 PM »

http://www.recalls.org/vet08.htm

The right link-"htm", not "html"

FDA Enforcement Report-May 14, 2008

http://www.fda.gov/bbs/topics/ENFORCE/2008/ENF01056.html

RECALLS AND FIELD CORRECTIONS:  VETERINARY MEDICINE - CLASS I
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PRODUCT
Diamond Pet Foods Nutra Nuggets Lamb Meal and Rice formula dog food in 40 lb. yellow and green paper bag, Recall # V-031-2008
CODE
Production codes of NLR0404A2SL or NLR0404B2SL, “Best Before” Oct. 9, 2008
RECALLING FIRM/MANUFACTURER
Diamond Pet Foods, Lathrop, CA, by press release and letters on May 23, 2007. Firm initiated recall is ongoing.
REASON
Product is contaminated with melamine.
VOLUME OF PRODUCT IN COMMERCE
6,064 units
DISTRIBUTION
Nationwide and Canada

And here you see the recall was considered ongoing (all product units not accounted for), so it was re-posted on the FDA Enforcement Report.  We saw this with the other melamine recalls too, because all cans, pouches and bags of the contaminated food could not be accounted for by the manufacturers of them.
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« Reply #347 on: October 31, 2008, 05:18:44 PM »

At my pet food shop today all of the bags of Nutro Lamb and Rice were gone from their usual place near the register with a sign saying that the food would be unavailable due to a lamb shortage....I asked the clerk what was going on as I had seen alot of complaints on the internet about Nutro and she said that she thinks those are from when Nutro had trouble getting good rice...I asked her why other brands of lamb seemed in normal supply and she did not know why...strange...nothing new at the website..I go in this store every other friday and there were at least a dozen bags piled up on special at the last visit... Huh
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« Reply #348 on: October 31, 2008, 11:36:27 PM »

Carol think there might really be something wrong with the food after all and instead of admitting it they are just doing silent recalls? It happened all the time during the pet food disaster of 2007 as I recall.
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« Reply #349 on: November 01, 2008, 12:47:01 PM »

It would be interesting to see if others here also see those same items missing at their stores...... Cool
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« Reply #350 on: November 24, 2008, 09:47:32 AM »

I spoke to a Nutro demo person Saturday in Petsmart, and she said they are changing the Nutro formulas again!  They are adding wet meat; lamb and chicken to the lamb meal and chicken meal.  They have also made the bags smaller, (from 40 to 35 lb bags).  They have also discontinued the dental formula, the small bites lite and senior small bites formulas. 

The manager in that same Petsmart said Nutro is also discontinuing the large breed formula in the royal blue bag.  They are also increasing the prices dramatically in the Max formulas.

If nothing is wrong with the food, why all the changes?  AND, I'll bet they won't tell the public when they do change the formulas.
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« Reply #351 on: November 24, 2008, 03:45:47 PM »

I spoke to a Nutro demo person Saturday in Petsmart, and she said they are changing the Nutro formulas again!  They are adding wet meat; lamb and chicken to the lamb meal and chicken meal.  They have also made the bags smaller, (from 40 to 35 lb bags).  They have also discontinued the dental formula, the small bites lite and senior small bites formulas. 

The manager in that same Petsmart said Nutro is also discontinuing the large breed formula in the royal blue bag.  They are also increasing the prices dramatically in the Max formulas.

If nothing is wrong with the food, why all the changes?  AND, I'll bet they won't tell the public when they do change the formulas.

formulas started changing when the first company sale went thru.. it appears IMHO that Mars is doing to Nutro what it did to Royal canin
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« Reply #352 on: November 24, 2008, 03:53:53 PM »

I was reading about the new Australia problem and came upon this..
 Huh..anybody??  post #34 last paragraph.. Huh
http://www.dolforums.com.au/index.php?showtopic=152392&view=findpost&p=3197636
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« Reply #353 on: November 24, 2008, 04:32:29 PM »

Wow!  I've never heard that before!  Australia must irradiate a lot of pet food coming in.  I wonder if this is common knowledge in Australia?
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« Reply #354 on: November 24, 2008, 05:49:20 PM »

Carol I read with great interest post #34. NUTRO had a problem with IRRADIATION !!!! WTF - have then been blasting their pet food with radiation for gawd knows how long. Is this why pets are throwing up, eating grass, drinking tons of water and suffering with other ailments that could be due to the radiation of the food? Exactly how long have they done this and is the food marked with the symbol for food that has been irridiated? This just makes me sick - and all of those poor pets who suffered because of this food IMO.
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« Reply #355 on: November 24, 2008, 06:24:15 PM »

Just found this on the web re: Mars pet care closing all kinds of plants.
www.chicagotribune.com/news/chi-ap-ia-muscatine-plantcl,0,5770854.story

What is going on with them?
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« Reply #356 on: November 24, 2008, 06:57:54 PM »

Carol, your question brought up some memories of past posts on here.  I cross posted from another thread on Aug 15, this thread:

http://itchmoforums.com/your-problems-with-pet-food/new-consumer-affairscomnutro-article-t4525.0.html;msg80658#msg80658

If you read posts I listed on that pet blog, that sounds so familiar now in light of the current Orijen problem.  Irradiation toxicity strikes again?

Of course that doesn't answer all the problems we are seeing here, which don't sound like the same issues they were havig down there.
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« Reply #357 on: November 24, 2008, 07:00:23 PM »

Mary - here is a thread with some discussion about the closures:

http://itchmoforums.com/news-recall-related/mars-petcare-closes-muscatine-plant-four-more-to-close-t6963.0.html
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« Reply #358 on: November 24, 2008, 07:26:13 PM »

Many pet products and human are irradiated now... i went searching for rawhide types chews at a big pet store 90% had the Green looks like 3 leaves( deceiving as the naked eye might think organic ) irritation symbol most were MIC but some were american

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radura
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« Reply #359 on: November 25, 2008, 11:24:05 AM »


Heard back from Nutro today re: amount of Vitamin D in their dry foods. They say 2000iu/kg. Is that high or normal? The necropsy for my female Jack Russell who died in June of 2008 showed mineralization indicative of Vitamin D toxicity but they would not say DEFINITELTY Vitamin D caused her death. No melamine or cyaurnic acid present. Her symptoms were the same as Vitamin D toxicity as well as Zinc toxicity. Zinc levels in the Chicken & Rice dry food were 88mg/kg. Depending on which authority you look at, one says too much zinc, the other says 'within guidelines'. Trying to pin it down before I spend MORE money I don't have on food & slide analysis.
Anybody have any ideas, suggestions, etc?
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