Though not an official recall notice, Party Animal Pet Food announces “Out of an abundance of caution, we are retrieving the remainder of these two lots nationwide.” The two lots of pet food tested positive for pentobarbital – a drug used to euthanize animals.
From the Party Animal website:
Party Animal Statement on Cocolicious
April 17, 2017
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.
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.
FDA recall notice: https://www.fda.gov/Safety/Recalls/ucm554771.htm
Wishing you and your pet(s) the best,
Susan Thixton
Pet Food Safety Advocate
Author Buyer Beware, Co-Author Dinner PAWsible
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Kim Dexter
April 20, 2017 at 11:32 am
What about the rest of the “flavors”? They all came from the same “suspicious” source!!
tracy
April 20, 2017 at 12:24 pm
Party Animal is made at the Evangers plant, hence the find. My question is that its from 2015, two years ago?
thewholisticvet
April 20, 2017 at 5:22 pm
Must be a huge seller 😉
Susan
April 22, 2017 at 10:54 am
I think it’s the opposite –Slow seller
stormidnight
April 20, 2017 at 12:45 pm
I won’t buy the product any longer, nor any that come out of the Evangers plant. I’ve also gone to 100% high end raw. The money you save on food may be spent at the vet. I made my choice.
barbara m
April 20, 2017 at 5:48 pm
TWO YEARS AGO? This adds a new dimension to the Evanger’s co-packer issue, which started in Jan 2017 (with the sickness and one death of the pug dogs).
Terri Christenson Janson
April 21, 2017 at 12:13 pm
They obviously have not quality control checks if these cans were from 2 years ago!! I would NEVER purchase them. I have been making my own dog food and now have gone to raw fed made in my kitchen.
Susan
April 22, 2017 at 10:58 am
Raw is best I believe howeve cooking for our loved ones is so enjoyable and safe as long as it’s complete and balanced. Kudos to you Terri 🙂
emmmmmmmmm
April 22, 2017 at 10:59 am
How do you do that? I’d like to do it for my cats. Are there any good cat Recipes?
Elizabeth Silknitter
April 24, 2017 at 12:26 pm
This is all I keep thinking about: http://freakonomics.com/podcast/the-troubled-cremation-of-stevie-the-cat-a-new-freakonomics-radio-podcast/
We are switching to homemade and raw. So tired of watching recalls and the anxiety. We were spending waay to much on premium pet food to worry like that.