DLM Foods Canada Corp. Voluntarily Withdraws Jerky Treats Dog Snacks Beef Flavour

[rumpel]

Looks like a part of Del Monte Foods..but it seems like a new press release looking at the time stamp

Businesswire

April 02, 2007 06:48 PM Eastern Daylight Time

TORONTO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--As a precautionary measure, DLM Foods Canada Corp. is voluntarily withdrawing Jerky Treats® Dog Treats Beef Flavour with the best before date of 16.08.08. Consumers should discontinue feeding this product and return affected products to their store for a refund. No other DLM Foods Canada Corp. products are subject to this voluntary withdrawal.

The Company took this voluntary withdrawal action after learning from the U.S. Food & Drug Administration (FDA) that wheat gluten supplied to DLM Foods Canada Corp. from a specific manufacturing facility in China contained melamine. Melamine is a substance not approved for use in food in the United States. The FDA made this finding as part of its ongoing investigation into the recent pet food recall in the United States. DLM Foods Canada Corp. conferred with the Canadian Food Inspection Agency today to coordinate the details of this voluntary withdrawal as it applied to the Canadian market.

The adulteration occurred in a limited production quantity indicated by the one best before date of Jerky Treats Dog Treats Beef Flavour product line mentioned above. This withdrawal removes all DLM Foods Canada Corp. pet products with wheat gluten procured from this manufacturing facility from retail shelves.

No other DLM Foods Canada Corp. products are subject to this voluntary withdrawal. The affected products comprise less than one-tenth of one percent of DLM Foods Canada Corp. annual pet food and pet treat production.

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[Kagemusha]

1. The Chinese company cited claims it didn't actually make the stuff...

it bought the stuff from other, smaller suppliers and sold it. Now, that's not really important here except in the following sense: the taint may well be from one of the smaller suppliers so not all of the gluten from the Chinese company that was cited by the FDA as the source, may be tainted. But, since there's no real guaranteed way of knowing which is tainted and which isn't without lots of testing, pet food corps are simply pulling all of the stuff that might be tainted, which is proper.

Besides, who's to say the Chinese company's statement to the press is even correct. Better safe than sorry, even though the damage might not be as broad as these precautionary recalls suggest. (Then again the possibly random nature of that damage means a broad brush is good.)

[rumpel]

2. Interesting...another chain of companies

buy - sell - merge - acquire - whatever....

Del Monte Foods Company to Sell IVD, Medi-Cal and Techni-Cal Pet Brands to Royal Canin
Business Wire, Feb 6, 2004

Business Editors

SAN FRANCISCO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Feb. 6, 2004

Del Monte Foods Company (NYSE: DLM) announced today that its principal operating subsidiary, Del Monte Corporation, and DLM Foods Canada Corp. have entered into an agreement to sell all its rights in the IVD(R) and Medi-Cal(R) brands as well as its rights in the Techni-Cal(R) brand in the United States and Canada, to Royal Canin for $82.5 million.

"These brands should be well-positioned for future growth with Royal Canin," said Richard G. Wolford, Del Monte chairman and CEO. "They are not, however, a strategic fit with the plans we have defined and are implementing with our core pet portfolio. We expect that our core pet products business will play a key role in Del Monte's future growth and, to date, we are quite pleased with the progress we are realizing with this business."

DLM Foods Canada Corp. will manufacture certain products for Royal Canin during a transition period after the sale. Del Monte will also perform certain transition services for Royal Canin during agreed-upon post-closing periods. Under the sale agreement, the IVD brand will be sold to Royal Canin U.S.A. and the Medi-Cal and Techni-Cal brands will be sold to Royal Canin Canada.

http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m0EIN/is_2004_Feb_6/ai_112977447

[whistle]

3. Dogie treats are now suspect as well.....OH BOY! I am reading the labels now

...here is what it says for Beggin Strips made by Nestle Purina PetCare a worldwide conglomerate company thanks to globalization and free trade:

Ingredients: Ground wheat, corn gluten meal, wheat flour, ground yellow corn, water, sugar, glyerin, beef, hydroginated starch hydrolysate, bacon fat preserved with BHA,soybean meal,salt, ascorbic acid, artificial smoke flavor, calcium propionate, glyceral monosterate, phosporic acid, choline chloride and added color (Red 40, yellow 5, blue 1, yellow 6)

My dog will get no more than one strip per day as a reward


Okay the other snack treat I give my dog is Canine Carry Out Treats made by Del Monte Pet Products I have the Pizza Flavors right now:

Ingredients: Chicken, soy flour, corn syrup, wheat flour, corn starch, water, propylene glycol, animal digest, bone phosphate, soy protein concentrate, beef, animal fat with BHA, sugar, dried cheeses product, salt, potassium chloride, titanium dioxide, phosporic acid, sorbic acid, Red 40 Lake Pizza Flavor, garlic powder, yellow 6, yellow 5 natural smoke flavor, iron oxide, citric acid

What in the hell is Animal Digest??? Is that the stuff remaining in the stomachs of slaughtered animals? It is the 8th ingredient listed.

Well I don't see wheat gluten, but I sure never realized that this is what went into the manufacture of these products. I should find some recipes and make my own dogie treats