Should the Nutro Dog Food makers really have checked their products better?
NUTRO DOG FOOD KILLS AGAIN!!! by Bhall on 11 June 2008 – 13:06 Bhall Posts: 52 Joined: Sun Mar 09, 2008 05:59 pm If anyone is feeding Nutro take your dog (s) off immediately. 2 of my puppies were recently poisoned and killed by this product. I am currently communicating with Nutro. If you look on consumer affairs you will see hundreds of complaints (RECENTLY) Dogs are getting very sick and young and older animals are dying. Symptoms are vomitting, diarrhea, lethargy. Took my pups to the vet immediately and we could not figure out what was wrong with them. We put them on supportive care but they did not make it. The day I switched to Nutro they got sick. Mother Dog also got sick but symptoms were not as severe. Then the other pups got sick and I received a call from a friend breeder at midnight. He has told me about the recent complaints. I immediately took the dogs off Nutro and their symptoms disappeared. Nutro does not feel that they have to pull this product off the shelf right now
Criticisms Nutro Products, Inc. has been criticized by the animal rights organization People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals for hiring subpar animal testing labs to test their products. The company has denied that it employs animal testing.[4] In March 2007 Nutro was listed as a company affected by the Menu Foods recall.[5] In April 2008, consumeraffairs.com reported multiple cases of diarrhea, vomiting and other intestinal problems in pets fed Nutro products. Nutro has said that their products undo rigorous safety testing and are 100% safe. Some customers have backed the company, saying that their pets are not having any problems with the food. Veterinarians interviewed states that it might not necessarily be the food that is causing problems.[6] In 1998, two samples of Nutro Premium (together with various other brands) were subject to qualitative analyses for pentobarbital residue by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration C
