AZDana

I just heard on the morning news that one type of Royal Canin is being recalled. I don’t remember which specific type, but I want to urge everyone to remember something very important that I found out while doing a lot of research online:

For the purpose of this post, I’m going to make up a fictional pet food company, let’s call it Comet Cat food. When it came to the recent pet food recall, Comet announced that its “Comet Chicken Casserole” was part of the recall and the Chicken Casserole was pulled off retailer shelves. However, retailers continued selling “Comet Crunchies” and “Comet Cajun Delight”.

What the press didn’t say and what I found out was that just because they continued to sell the Crunchies and the Cajun Delight doesn’t mean that they are safe. As a matter of fact, there could be toxic substances in all Comet brand food, but the levels in the “Crunchies” and “Cajun Delight” are considered not to be at unsafe levels.

In other words, if the retailer has a toxin in one type of food they sell, the toxin could be in all their food, its just not considered hazardous enough (yet?) to warrant a mandatory recall, especially when its on a large scale like the prior recall.

I had switched the BBD to Royal Canin, especially when their site was filled with assurances that none of their food was processed in the same facilities that were affected by the recall. I guess I’m just going to have to feed her human food from now on.