Evanger's pet food recall (pentobarbital)

don't think I would ever go near an Evanger's product again.
bumpy

How would pentobarbital get into pet food?

colliehauler wrote:
How would pentobarbital get into pet food?

My thought exactly... I hope there is a federal criminal investigation. Thats a controlled substance.

Made the mistake of googling this, the answer is very sad and disgusting.

colliehauler wrote:
How would pentobarbital get into pet food?

my question also. evidently came from their meat sources. I am sure that this firm, and no firm, analyzes their raw material for every potential cross contaminant out there. however if as speculated the critters harvested are put down by doses of pentobarb one would think testing would be in order.
bumpy

Bumpyroad wrote:

colliehauler wrote:
How would pentobarbital get into pet food?

my question also. evidently came from their meat sources. I am sure that this firm, and no firm, analyzes their raw material for every potential cross contaminant out there. however if as speculated the critters harvested are put down by doses of pentobarb one would think testing would be in order.
bumpy

Except the government recall website states all beef the company uses is FDA approved. SO if true it was in the human supply chain and went unnoticed or it is something else.
Also notice it was a VOLUNTARY recall not an ordered recall

darsben1 wrote:

Bumpyroad wrote:

colliehauler wrote:
How would pentobarbital get into pet food?

my question also. evidently came from their meat sources. I am sure that this firm, and no firm, analyzes their raw material for every potential cross contaminant out there. however if as speculated the critters harvested are put down by doses of pentobarb one would think testing would be in order.
bumpy

Except the government recall website states all beef the company uses is FDA approved. SO if true it was in the human supply chain and went unnoticed or it is something else.
Also notice it was a VOLUNTARY recall not an ordered recall

USDA approves beef, not FDA.
bumpy

I receive these notices as well. Only one recipe of their canned dog food was suspect. It was their chunks of beef recipe. They make many types of food. These alerts are always frightening, but very few dog food makers have not had a recall at one time or another. Except for cooking for your dog, and I have done this for long periods, there seems to always be a risk in feeding commercial dog food.

It is highly unlikely phenobarbital came from cuts of beef from a usda processor; the cows must walk into the plant on their own feet which is not possible after being injected with phenobarbital.

There is missing information about how phenobarbital ended up in the canned food.

If you read what the company stated, dogs in only one household feeding the affected lots got sick. Phenobarbital was found in the stomach contents of one of these dogs. No test results are in from the testing of canned food collected from these lots. At this point there is no way to know how these dogs consumed the phenobarbital.

Aside from the facts that Mark gives, it would be amazingly expensive to euthanize a cow with pentobarbital, I can't imagine any farmer or processor doing that. I wonder about some warped person acting to adulterate the source.