** For a list of pet foods NOT recently recalled go to The Pet Food List **
Blue Buffalo has recalled the following:
- All Blue brand can dog foods
- All Spa Select brand can cat foods
- All Blue Health Bar treats.
From their release…
We at the Blue Buffalo Company have just learned that American Nutrition Inc. (ANI), the manufacturer of all our cans and biscuits, has been adding rice protein concentrate to our can formulas without our knowledge and without our approval. This is product tampering, and it apparently has been going on for some time. The can formulas that we developed, and trusted them to produce, never contained any rice protein concentrate. It appears that only an FDA investigation of ANI’s rice protein concentrate supplies forced them to reveal this product tampering to us.
While this activity by ANI is in itself unlawful, the situation is further clouded by the fact that ANI has been receiving rice protein concentrate from Wilber-Ellis, some of which the FDA has determined to be contaminated with melamine.
So while no BLUE or Spa Select canned product has tested positive for the presence of melamine, and there has been no reported illness due to any of our canned products, we simply cannot be sure of what ANI has been including in our formulas. For this reason, we have decided to remove all of our canned and biscuit products from retail distribution. While this may seem to many to be a major over-reaction, as other ANI customers will probably only recall the products that tested positive for melamine, we see this as a matter of integrity.
The entire release can be found on the Blue Buffalo website.
(Thanks Itchmo!)
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And, over at Pet Connection, they’re reporting that, although FDA testing detected melamine in the Costco foods, the FDA apparently wasn’t aware of yesterday’s Costco recall and had this to say:
We aren’t aware of any other potential recalls at this time involving either pet food produced from contaminated wheat gluten or from contaminated rice protein concentrate.
Go on over to Pet Connection for more on that…it’s an interesting read!
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Blue Buffalo stated that they had no idea that American Nutrition added grain protein in their food. If that is so, then why did they make this statement to petsitusa (look on this website of non-recalled pet food)
“They (Blue Buffalo) do not manufacture food in their own facility. Manufacturer is confidential but they have their own vets and staff on location at all times and ingredients are tested before and after each run.”
Blue Buffalo is and has seriously lied to the public about the level of controls and quality assurances that they said they had in place.
LIARS!!!!
Wow! This is really getting out of hand. We just switched from Nutro’s Ultra adult dry dog food to Blue Buffalo Life Protection Formula dry dog food?
I’m not aware of any recall of either of these in the dry dog food.
I mix in a moderate portion of home cooked chicken with their dry food.(cooked in a crock pot)
They also get some very small portions of carrots, string beans, and broccolli when I’m eating around them.
Should I feel safe with that?
Jimmy,
You should absolutely feel safe with that; the dry food is manufactured in a separate facility and everything has been tested.
The cans were not actually contaminated; they are being recalled because ANI did not follow the formulas as Blue stipulated. Even if you had fed any of them, you should not feel concerned about that either.
whew!…thanks Christine
cheers!
Hello