From Wysong . . .
Mold has been found in some bags of Wysong dry extruded dog foods manufactured in June, July and August of 2009. No problems have been found or reported in any other Wysong food product.
No products from the following batches should be sold or fed. The affected products are:
Wysong Maintenance™: lot #: 090617
Wysong Maintenance™: lot #: 090624
Wysong Maintenance™: lot #: 090706
Wysong Maintenance™: lot #: 090720
Wysong Maintenance™: lot #: 090817
Wysong Senior™: lot #: 090623
Wysong Senior™: lot #: 090811
Wysong Synorgon™: lot #: 090629Please contact the point of purchase for an exchange or refund.
Mold spores are in all natural foods. When there is heat, oxygen, and sufficient moisture the spores can bloom into mold. Everyone has experienced this with foods at home.
From what can be determined, the problem with the Wysong foods stems from unusually high heat and humidity on those summer dates. This combined with a malfunctioning moisture checking device is believed to be the cause of the higher moisture and this isolated problem.
All Wysong foods have been tested for mycotoxins and are negative. That is the primary danger in consuming moldy foods. If your pet has consumed the product, the most that could be expected would be loose stool, and this should clear upon changing from these lot numbers.
As noted in the article below, mold is a ubiquitous problem in all packaged foods. Wysong takes many measures to address this:
1. Incoming ingredients are tested for moisture and mycotoxins.
2. Finished products are also tested.
3. Ingredients are used to inhibit mold growth.
4. The NutriPak oxygen and light barrier packaging inhibits aerobic mold growth.
5. Products are nitrogen flushed to remove oxygen.
6. Products are fresh batched.
7. Ingredients are used to help adsorb toxins should they be present.
8. People are advised to refrigerate or freeze unused product, i.e. treat it like any fresh natural food is treated.
9. Most importantly, Dr. Wysong has advised for the past 30 years against feeding any singular food meal after meal. Diets should be rotated and fresh foods incorporated into meal planning in order to decrease the risk of chronic exposure to toxins that may be present in any one food. This information is on all Wysong packaged pet foods.
You’ll find more info about the Wysong dog food recall on their website.
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**Catherine’s post has been deleted, since it sounded way too much like an ad for a pet food. Spam like that isn’t welcome on most blogs, including this one.**
I think that it is not possible to have a 100% completely safe product all of the time…just can not happen..accidents do happen even to the “best” (which is a very subjective)..for me the issue is when there is a problem I want to know ASAP and companies need to make it public thru every “channel”…not get the news in bits and pieces and maybe know about it just because a petowner posts at pet blogs and forums!
Nice sales pitch! Now that food is on the list to avoid.
I agree with Carol, there is no such thing as a totally safe food. The question is, when something does go wrong, and it will eventually, does the company get word out thru as many venues as possible, media, twitter, pet blogs, FDA, press release, etc or does it hide behind excuses like Wysong has been using such as “we’ve done everything reasonably possible” to notify customers. For some reason that failed to include a press release. If a company truly wants to notify the public, it knows how to do it. Ive seen press releases from Wysong about new products etc but for some reason when it comes to telling people about a problem with their food, they act like they dont know what press releases are. I think their recent statement said FDA told them one wasnt needed. I question whether their convo really went down that way. Most of us know FDA cant legally require them to do one but if you are a company that really cares about the pets and owners who buy your food, you would do whatever it takes to get word out.
Wow, Catherine… same spam message here as on Pet Connection, pushing Dr. Hicks’ food as if you were just a happy customer.
I didn’t know until I read this post that pet food is being recalled, again. Our pets get a mix of commercial holistic food and raw food. I tell people to buy only food that has ingredients that you can pronounce and understand!
I own a pet health food store and there are so many things left out of the information on the back of a bag of dog food. especially the break down of ingredients. like when they say “animal fat” and other non-specific references. Animal fat could be from ANY animal, (cow, pig, chicken, or the dog your neighbor euthanized last week). I would advise anyone looking to buy dog food to check all ingredients as well as call the company to find out where the ingredients are sourced from, and where the food is made before purchasing anything. if they say thats proprietary information, hang up and try a new food!! they are hiding something.