-- Shares Facebook Twitter Reddit Email The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is asking pet owners not to purchase two brands of raw cat and dog food products, which recently tested positive for salmonella and listeria contamination.
The agency announced this month that it found salmonella in five samples of raw dog food made by Darwin’s Natural Pet Products , manufactured by Arrow Reliance. A sixth sample tested positive for both salmonella and listeria monocytogenes. “As part of our outreach, we specifically communicated with customers who had already received product lots that were included in the FDA’s notice — about 3% of our customers nationwide,” a spokesperson for Gary Tashjian, founder and CEO of Darwin’s, told Today .
“Only a limited amount of product had left our facilities, and the lots are not currently in distribution. Per our protocols, we had preemptively stopped shipping any potentially affected product lots earlier in the month, as soon as the FDA let us know it had taken samples for testing.” Related Boar’s Head is closing its Virginia plant tied to deadly listeria outbreak, discontinues liverwurst “Darwin’s is confident our meals are safe.
As we’ve also shared with our customers, we commissioned independent, third-party testing using conventional methods, which found that all lots tested negative for listeria,” the spokesperson added. “The testing found small trace amounts of salmonella, which is inherent to poultry.” Th.
