A common ‘find’ in pet food over the past few months was some type of foreign object. The most unusual foreign object was this found in a bag of Nutrish cat food…
(Wonder how Nutrish explained that!)
Feathers found in Blue Buffalo and Orijen…
More than likely hog hair in Meow Mix Treats…
Bugs and mold are also commonly seen issues of concern posted on Twitter over the past few months. Such as mold covering this can of Fancy Feast…
Bugs covering outside of packages of Fancy Feast…
Worms in Pedigree…
Mold in Pedigree…
Perhaps burnt kibble or moldy clumps in Hill’s Large Breed Puppy…
Mold in Milkbone dog treats.
Probably the most common complaint pet owners had with pet food over the last few months was price increases. Nutro:
This pet owner complained to Iams that his dog food purchase increased more than $11.00 for a 30 pound bag.
And this pet owner examples how Royal Canin increased the price, lowered the amount of pet food in the bag – while making the bag taller appearing to contain more pet food…
And there were numerous complaints about shrinkage of pet food in canned products. Again with Royal Canin…
And two regarding shrinkage of Wellness pet food…
Blue Buffalo canned food…
And pet food manufacturers have been giving pet owners some misleading/incorrect information. Such as…
This pet owner brings up a VERY good question – how summer temperatures would effect pet food in transit. As a response to this valid pet owner concern, Royal Canin gives this (ridiculous) response: “because we cook our diets at such high temperatures, transit temperature should not have any effect on the nutritional value.”
In this example, Pedigree dog food pulls a trick that many feed grade manufacturers try. We could not find the original message to Pedigree – but this was their response to a pet owner regarding the quality of meat ingredients in Pedigree:
Very misleading message from Pedigree; “Each animal must arrive at the USDA facility unadulterated.” Not even close to accurate. Per USDA statistics, millions of pounds of animal carcasses are condemned at USDA facilities every quarter. And those condemned carcasses are allowed to be disposed of into pet food by FDA.
To view the complaint messages sent to any brand on Twitter, make sure to click on “Tweets & Replies” tab on any page.
Wishing you and your pet the best –
Susan Thixton
Pet Food Safety Advocate
TruthaboutPetFood.com
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John H.
October 6, 2022 at 3:26 pm
I have had to start weighing my canned Dog Food. I started to notice substantial difference in volume between cans of food. I was purchasing KOHA from my Pet Food Supplier…supposed to come from Canada, where the Pet Food Oversight is more strict. There were over an ounce and a half differences between many cans. When I contacted the Company, I was told that at production run end there can be a few. To me that was a lie and I asked if they had been consulting American Pet Food Manufacturers to implement these production cheats. What type of Quality Controls permit cans that are significantly underweight to slip by?
Peter
November 4, 2022 at 1:21 pm
The Royal Canin bags are actually a different issue. Due to whatever manufacturing problems in North America, they started importing European bags, made in their French facility.
European bags are just that ridiculously tall and lighter in weight.
Is it okay to sell them at the same price as the bigger NA bags? No.