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Recall redux: pet food recall seems to expand daily; what's a dog parent to do?(CONSUMER ALERT)

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| June 01, 2007 | Kerns, Nancy | COPYRIGHT 2007 Belvoir Media Group, LLC. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)Copyright

Who could have imagined a month ago how the pet food recall could implode like this? This started in mid-March, when Menu Foods, a contract manufacturer of wet pet foods, announced it was recalling dozens of products containing wheat gluten, which was traced to a new source in China. A fortnight later, investigators identified a contaminant, melamine, a chemical used in plastics.

Once the source of the ingredient was known, investigators sought to locate every place the ingredient had ended up--and the recall expanded as more products made with the contaminated wheat gluten were found. As we went to press with the May issue, it seemed possible that the ...

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