Here is part of the news release:

“Our 5 lb. and 28 lb. Sweet Potato & Chicken Dry Dog food, manufactured on December 17, 2009 with a “Best By” date of June 17, 2011 is being voluntarily recalled. A random sampling of this product tested positive for Salmonella by the FDA. In my mind, I asked, “How can this happen? I spent over $900,000 putting in our laboratory to test our products before we release them.” We tested samples from the production run when it was manufactured six months ago, and the results came back negative.”

You can read the rest here:

http://www.naturalbalanceinc.com/letter_from_president.html

In the past few weeks there have been a few new pet food recalls.  If you feed any of these foods please check your bags for the lot #’s and get rid of the food if it falls into one of these categories.  Recalls such as these just reinforce my choice to feed my dogs raw food that I control.

The first was “Premium Edge” Cat food, due to a thiamine deficiency.  Then last week it is Wysong brand dog food because of mold contamination:

• Wysong Maintenance™: lot #: 090617
• Wysong Maintenance™: lot #: 090624
• Wysong Maintenance™: lot #: 090706
• Wysong Maintenance™: lot #: 090720
• Wysong Senior™: lot #: 090623

And now Nutro brand is recalled because of plastic contamination.  The types affected are sold in Petsmart stores in CA, AZ, TX, NM, and CO.

and this type went to Petco stores in CA, HI, NV and UT