https://www.fda.gov/Safety/Recalls/ucm554771.htm
Right now this recall is limited to their dog food - HOWEVER as this is supposedly an organic company with out pets best interests in heart and a heafty price tag to go with it - you relly need to consider if this company is where you want to put your pets health.
Right now this recall is limited to their dog food - HOWEVER as this is supposedly an organic company with out pets best interests in heart and a heafty price tag to go with it - you relly need to consider if this company is where you want to put your pets health.
Party Animal Recalls Dog Food Due To Potential Presence of Pentobarbital
For Immediate Release
April 24, 2017
Contact
Consumers
323-207-4100Announcement
The safety of pets is and always will be our first priority. We
sincerely regret the reports of the discomfort experienced by the pet
who consumed this food. As pet parents ourselves, we take this matter
seriously. On April 13, a retailer in Texas notified us that their
customer had presented samples of our 13-ounce-can Cocolicious Beef
& Turkey dog food (Lot #0136E15204 04, best by July 2019) and
13-ounce-can Cocolicious Chicken & Beef dog food (Lot #0134E15 237
13, best by August 2019) to a testing lab, and that the results had
tested positive for pentobarbital. We have requested those results.
Pentobarbital can affect animals that ingest it, and possibly cause side
effects such as drowsiness, dizziness, excitement, loss of balance, or
nausea, or in extreme cases, possibly death.
When we were notified, we immediately tracked the lot numbers of the food in question and determined that the food had been manufactured and distributed in 2015. We then contacted the two probable retailers that had sold the customer the food and asked them to isolate all remaining cans from these lots. If pet parents have cans with either of those lot numbers in their possession, they should return them to the place of purchase and will of course receive a full refund.
We also requested that the retailers send all of the cans from those lots to us so that we can forward them on to an accredited independent laboratory for independent testing. We expect to receive the receive the results in 7 to 10 days. We first saw the formal report from the lab at Texas A&M regarding the customer’s samples, today, April 17.
Out of an abundance of caution, we are retrieving the remainder of these two lots nationwide. We are working with our distributors and retailers to determine if any additional beef-flavored products manufactured during this 2015 production period remain on shelves and, if so, to retrieve them from shelves, immediately, as well.
Party Animal wishes to emphasize that we have submitted many recent lots of our beef flavors for testing and all have tested negative for any pentobarbital. We have also had extensive discussions with our manufacturer regarding the potential cause of the reported contamination of the 2015 lots, and we will continue with such discussions even as we await testing results for the 2015 lots. In order to ensure adherence to our commitment to the safety of pets, we are also actively re-examining our manufacturing processes.
When we were notified, we immediately tracked the lot numbers of the food in question and determined that the food had been manufactured and distributed in 2015. We then contacted the two probable retailers that had sold the customer the food and asked them to isolate all remaining cans from these lots. If pet parents have cans with either of those lot numbers in their possession, they should return them to the place of purchase and will of course receive a full refund.
We also requested that the retailers send all of the cans from those lots to us so that we can forward them on to an accredited independent laboratory for independent testing. We expect to receive the receive the results in 7 to 10 days. We first saw the formal report from the lab at Texas A&M regarding the customer’s samples, today, April 17.
Out of an abundance of caution, we are retrieving the remainder of these two lots nationwide. We are working with our distributors and retailers to determine if any additional beef-flavored products manufactured during this 2015 production period remain on shelves and, if so, to retrieve them from shelves, immediately, as well.
Party Animal wishes to emphasize that we have submitted many recent lots of our beef flavors for testing and all have tested negative for any pentobarbital. We have also had extensive discussions with our manufacturer regarding the potential cause of the reported contamination of the 2015 lots, and we will continue with such discussions even as we await testing results for the 2015 lots. In order to ensure adherence to our commitment to the safety of pets, we are also actively re-examining our manufacturing processes.
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