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   From: ar231@FreeNet.Carleton.CA   
      
   (K): Still more companies are recalling their pet food products as a result   
   of their using the same ingredients that have been found in the killer foods.   
   It's time to feed our pets PEOPLE food until the dust settles on this issue.   
   Beef, turkey, tuna, chicken..... anything but pet foods for a while.  Here's   
   the latest news release....   
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   Mon Apr 2, 2007   
      
   U.S. Chain Recalls Some Del Monte Pet Foods   
      
   NEW YORK (Reuters) - Supermarket chain Supervalu  said on Sunday it   
   was voluntarily recalling select pet food products made by Del Monte Foods   
    because of possible contamination.   
      
   Supervalu's removal of certain Happy Tails products broadens an already   
   sweeping recall of pet food across North America in recent weeks.   
      
   Veterinarians and pet owners have reported many cats and dogs have fallen   
   ill as a result of suspected food contamination and the U.S. Food and Drug   
   Administration is investigating.   
      
   Supervalu said the products have been recalled from its Acme, Jewel-Osco,   
   Shaw's, and Star Market stores as well as its Albertsons stores in the   
   Southern California, Northwest, and Intermountain West regions.   
      
   On Saturday another company, Del Monte Pet Products, announced a voluntary   
   recall of certain products sold under the Jerky Treats, Gravy Train Beef   
   Sticks and Pounce Meaty Morsels brands as well as select dog snack and wet   
   dog food products.   
      
   The FDA said on Friday it had notified Hill's Pet Nutrition Inc. that   
   tests had detected byproducts of a suspect chemical in the wheat gluten it   
   used to make Prescription Diet m/d Feline dry food.   
      
   The FDA concluded that melamine, a chemical used in fertilizers in Asia   
   and forbidden in pet food, had been found in some wheat gluten used by a   
   Canadian company at the center of the recall, which started two weeks ago.   
      
   Ontario-based Menu Foods  makes pet food sold under several   
   labels. The FDA and Menu said the suspect wheat gluten came from a Chinese   
   supplier, which was not identified.   
      
   Menu recalled several batches of wet pet food in mid-March after the   
   products were blamed for the deaths of at least 14 animals -- mostly cats.   
      
   The FDA found that wheat gluten from the same company that supplied Menu   
   Foods was used to make the Hill's product, the first time a dry food had   
   been implicated.   
      
   Hill's, a unit of Colgate-Palmolive Co. , based in Topeka, Kansas,   
   has voluntarily recalled the product sold through veterinarians.   
      
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