Animals
From North Country Gazette
In another development, Menu Foods, the Canadian firm which initiated the biggest recall of pet food in the nation’s history in mid-March when it recalled 60 million containers of wet and pouched dog and cat food, has posted claims information on its website for pet owners whose pets were killed or sickened by the pet food contaminated with melamine, an industrial chemical not approved for food use in the United States and which has caused kidney failure in cats and dogs. http://www.menufoods.com/recall/United%20States%20Residents.pdf
According to the announcement posted at their website, the company says it will “address any reasonable expense incurred by pet owners that we can identify as being caused by contamination of Menu Foods’ products”.
And I suppose Menu Foods is the one to decide what's reasonable?
Pet owners who opt to settle directly with Menu Foods, will be required to file documentation including receipts from the purchase of the affected products, copies of any labels from the products and copies of any records from a veterinarian, clinic of other healthcare facility. They are also asked to save all opened and unopened cans and pouches of the affected dog and cat foods.
I could swear that at one point I was told to return unopened packages to a retailer for a refund, which I did. After Whiskers died from being poisoned I couldn't stand the thought of having that poisonous food in my home, and I had nightmares about someone accidentally giving the poisoned food to my surviving cat and the orphaned kittens we adopted. I wanted MENU FOODS POISONED food out of my home.
The company is also requiring pet owners to fill out a lengthy questionnaire that asks for such information as the UPC codes on the recalled foods, dates the products were manufactured, dates when their pets ate the food, number of cans or pouches their pets ate, and whether their pets had any pre-existing
conditions. 5-17-07
Want to bet they deny the majority of claims.
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Nearly one month passed from the date Menu got its first report of a death to the date it issued the recall. During that time, no veterinarians were warned to be on the lookout for unusual numbers of kidney failure in their patients. No pet owners were...
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Animals
Pet Food Recall ~ Menu Foods covers their ASSets
From North Country Gazette
In another development, Menu Foods, the Canadian firm which initiated the biggest recall of pet food in the nation’s history in mid-March when it recalled 60 million containers of wet and pouched dog and cat food, has posted claims information on its website for pet owners whose pets were killed or sickened by the pet food contaminated with melamine, an industrial chemical not approved for food use in the United States and which has caused kidney failure in cats and dogs. http://www.menufoods.com/recall/United%20States%20Residents.pdf
According to the announcement posted at their website, the company says it will “address any reasonable expense incurred by pet owners that we can identify as being caused by contamination of Menu Foods’ products”.
And I suppose Menu Foods is the one to decide what's reasonable?
Pet owners who opt to settle directly with Menu Foods, will be required to file documentation including receipts from the purchase of the affected products, copies of any labels from the products and copies of any records from a veterinarian, clinic of other healthcare facility. They are also asked to save all opened and unopened cans and pouches of the affected dog and cat foods.
I could swear that at one point I was told to return unopened packages to a retailer for a refund, which I did. After Whiskers died from being poisoned I couldn't stand the thought of having that poisonous food in my home, and I had nightmares about someone accidentally giving the poisoned food to my surviving cat and the orphaned kittens we adopted. I wanted MENU FOODS POISONED food out of my home.
The company is also requiring pet owners to fill out a lengthy questionnaire that asks for such information as the UPC codes on the recalled foods, dates the products were manufactured, dates when their pets ate the food, number of cans or pouches their pets ate, and whether their pets had any pre-existing
conditions. 5-17-07
Want to bet they deny the majority of claims.
- Pet Food Recall ~ The Food? Or Just The Labels?
Gina reassures us in her post The food? Or just the labels? It was a dumb thing for Menu Foods and Wal-Mart to do. With consumer confidence at an all time low anything associated with the pet food recall, including unused pouches, should have been destroyed....
- Iams Forced Menu Foods Hand
Without Iams, there might not have been a recall at all. In sworn testimony, Menu Foods CEO Paul Henderson admitted that his company called the recall because Iams told them they’d had enough, that their own quality internal systems had revealed...
- Bigger Then You Think ~the Pet Food Recall
Nearly one month passed from the date Menu got its first report of a death to the date it issued the recall. During that time, no veterinarians were warned to be on the lookout for unusual numbers of kidney failure in their patients. No pet owners were...
- Pet Food
As many of my readers know I was planning to make my own pet food. Alas Sockie-Pooh doesn't care for my cooking! LOL ;>). So I wanted to find a pet food that had no connection to that dastardly Menu Foods company that killed Whiskers. These products...
- Oops I Killed Your Pet, Let Me Reimburse You
The president of pet food maker Menu Foods, which last week issued a recall of 60 million cans and pouches of pet food after a rash of animal sickness and death, said today that the company would reimburse pet owners who can trace their pets' illnesses...