Amid an ongoing pet food recall, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is urging pet owners not to give their dogs and cats certain food products from two different brands.
Both the brands, Answers Pet Food and Darwin’s Natural Pet Products, were found to have produced pet food that was contaminated with the bacteria salmonella and listeria, which can cause illness in pets that can then infect their owners. Answers Pet Food issued over the contamination. The , to issue an official recall, though the company has yet to do so.
No illnesses have been confirmed. Pet owners should check to make sure their products are not among the potentially contaminated items before feeding it to their pets, the FDA said. Neither In September 2024, the FDA issued notices about two different brands of pet food, urging owners not to feed it to their pets due to the risk of contamination with salmonella and listeria.
The that it discovered salmonella in five samples of raw dog food made by Darwin’s Natural Pet Products, manufactured by Arrow Reliance. A sixth sample contained both salmonella and listeria monocytogenes. Meanwhile, Answers Pet Food three of its dog food products “out of an abundance of caution” when FDA samples found salmonella and listeria in several types of its food, the company said in a statement.
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