i've covered this in other cat food recall videos
talking about salmonella and of course you know it is a risk.
but it's a risk with whatever you feed. whether you feed raw food, kibble, or canned foods.
hey friends it's jess and jericho here with another cat food recall update.
so the most recent cat food recall update is from jm smucker.
and they're recalling two lots of meowmix original
choice dry cat food for potential salmonella contamination.
the company made the announcement on april 9
2021 and the fda published the announcement on its website april 12.
the impacted products were sold at select stores
in one two three four five six seven eight different states.
and it says that no other mix products are impacted by this recall.
so if you're feeding this food you're going to go to the fda's website it's linked below and
take a look at the retail code, and the lot code, as well as the best if used by date.
september 2022 expiration. date does that make sense? right now it's april 2021
so a year and a half from now is when you should use that food.
do you eat anything that expires in two in a year and a half?
i've covered this in other cat food recall videos talking about
salmonella and of course you know it is a risk.
but it's a risk with whatever you feed. whether you feed raw food, kibble, or canned foods.
this recall proves it. earlier this year bravo a raw pet food company
recalled a a couple different products because of potential salmonella and listeria contaminations.
bravo recalled those products in the middle of march.
and then about one week later midwestern pet foods a dry kibble manufacturing company
recalled products due to salmonella contamination.
and if we take a look at this page's products
there are so many different line items here that are potentially contaminated.
now going back to meowmix. miowmix is the brand name
but the actual company making the food is jm smucker.
does that sound familiar?
jm smucker makes different types of human foods and they also have multiple
brands of pet foods too.
so here we have nine lives, canine carryouts, gravy train, kibbles and bits, nature's recipe,
milo's kitchen, milk bone, meow mix, puperoni, rachel ray nutrition, and snausages.
so we have one two three four five six seven eight nine ten eleven.
eleven different brands manufactured by one company.
so i'm very curious if only two products from meowmix were potentially contaminated
but they manufacture 10 other 10 other brands i'm wondering if we're going to see
an expanded recall coming soon from jm smucker.
that's exactly what happened to midwestern pet foods kibble manufacturing company.
in december 2020 they recalled multiple products due to aflatoxin mold which is deadly.
there's one two three four five six different products.
and then in january about two weeks later they expanded that recall
to about 20 different products.
and if we go back to midwestern pet foods recall from march on salmonella
there are over 120 different products
that are made by one manufacturing company across multiple different brands.
but the raw pet food company has one brand
it's it's what they make and it's nine different products.
if you need a sign to change up your cat's food and feed your cat better consider this a sign.
like i said salmonella is the main objection to
raw foods and fresh food diets but salmonella is possible with every type of food that you feed.
so if you want to feed your cat better i highly highly recommend learning how to
read cat food labels you can do this on aafco's website or you can go to my channel home page.
how to read cat food labels the right way it's the very first playlist and if you're
interested in feeding raw raw caffeine diet for beginners is the second playlist.
thanks for watching!