signal boost: Purina food could be hurting your pets

[cellio]

Thanks to siderea for pointing me to this post about problems with Purina pet food (dog and cat, at least). After seeing this I read the last several month's worth of consumer-affiars complaints, and older ones about the specific foods relevant to me. (Warning: can be gross.) This goes well beyond "ew, yuck" to "get that stuff out of the house before it contaminates anything else". Fortunately I don't use their dry food (infestations), but I do -- or did, until now -- use Friskies canned food (toxins) sometimes.

I didn't find anything on Purina's site about this. Since this isn't in the news I don't know how I would hear about a response from them other than searching from time to time.

Comments

[alienor.livejournal.com]

You have my sincere sympathy on the loss of your cat. It's a terrible, horrible experience to be unable to help your family member, and I'm sorry you had to experience that.

That said, if you think Purina food was the cause, I'd encourage you (if you haven't yet) to file a report (http://www.fda.gov/Safety/MedWatch/HowToReport/ucm053074.htm) with the FDA and also with the company (looks like the best direct line may be 1-800-778-7462; they also have a twitter account and I generally get good responses going public through twitter - @Purina_USA).

If there is a problem with the product, the best way for the company and regulating agency be able to take action is to have data - symptoms, food type, etc - to analyze and determine what's wrong.