After week or so of hearing about people's cats and dogs slowly dying as a result of eating various Menu Food's products, it was finally determined what was causing the animals to become ill, and sometimes die.
According to various reports, a cancer drug called Aminopterin, was developed in the 1950's as an anti-cancer drug is the poison in the pet-food. Aminopterin is banned in the U.S, but apparently, it is still used in some parts of the world as rodentcide (is that a word???) to kill rats.
So far, there have been thousands of calls to the FDA regarding sick pets, but to date, only 14 pets have died as a result of the poison. Considering the millions of cans that were in circulation, I think that the number of pets that died as a result of eating the food will be a much larger number than 14.
Menu Foods has updated their website with contact information, and has also posted that they will pay for any treatment needed as a result of a pet eating contaminated food. It seems like they are trying to do the right thing, but I wonder if this could have been detected or announced sooner.
The people at menu foods do not think the product was tampered with because the same problem exists for foods produced at two seperate facilities, in two states. It seems that whatever is the common source for their ingredients needs to be looked at carefully.
In addition, if this rat poison is banned in the US, how the heck did it get into the food product? What is preventing this substance, or worse from getting in to OUR food supply? The food supply has always been a concern - could it be tainted by terrorists? I suppose that it is possible considering what is happening with the pet food.
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