Friends, this is a very serious message.

For more than a year, NUTRO Pet Products has shrugged off consumer complaints about dogs and cats becoming ill and even dying after eating the company’s food. The company’s public relations agents have insisted the food was “100 percent safe” and both NUTRO and the taxpayer-supported agency charged with regulating the safety of animal feed — the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) — have denied there is any kind of investigation into NUTRO products.

Last month, May 2009, the FDA announced a recall of more than 20 kinds of dry NUTRO cat food that has been sold in at least 11 countries, including all 50 states in the U.S. The FDA allowed the company to write the press release, which was then posted on the official FDA Web site. The company-written statement repeatedly stresses that the recall is voluntary and pins the blame on an unidentified supplier who supposedly allowed excessive levels of zinc and under-supplemented potassium in its premix.

The company claimed it received no consumer complaints about the recalled cat food. But among the more than 800 consumer complaints ConsumerAffairs.com has received about NUTRO products since 2007, many have been about illnesses and deaths involving cats. Many of the aggrieved consumers also contacted NUTRO.

800 complaints against NUTRO.

This company has the worst track record of making pets sick and die. Their only concern? Profits! Please spread the word.

To any human reading this.. if you truly love your pets please switch to a better product for the sake of your animal companions asap!

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Champion PetFoods has pulled out of the Australian market after the pet food Orijen was linked to the deaths of 6 cats and the paralysis of dozens more.

Australian law requires the Orijen pet food to be irradiated before sold to pet owners and Champion is saying that the irradiation is the cause of the mysterious cat deaths. This may well be the case.

However, there have been no problems with other pet foods after irradiation and all imported food is irradiated before entering the country. I wonder if many humans had to be euthanised after eating irradiated food?