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Pet Food Recall Pictures GalleryAdvanced Photoshop Pictures Gallery - 10 image entries
Contest Directions: 
This week, pet food recall expanded further to include products made at a Canadian factory. Pet food from China, on the other hand, was found to have the least chemicals, and with the most natural ingredients. Hey, they don't call it "dog food" for nothing.
In this contest you are asked to photoshop pet food that may need a recall. Show some bad ingredients, packaging, strange names and shapes of pet food items, etc.
Tag funny pix pet food recall
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| | This Tuesday brought another spin in the pet food recall scandal.
A Canadian factory was found to have used an ingredient tainted with a poisonous chemical, which already caused pet contaminations and lethal cases amongst pets in the United States which were fed the food of Menu Foods Inc.
Previously the company recalled cat and dog food produced only at its factories in Kansas and New Jersey - thought to have been the only ones using the ingredient, wheat gluten, contaminated with a bad industrial chemical - melamine.
Unfortunately, further tests by Menu Foods have revealed that part of the contaminated wheat gluten was transported to their factory in Canada where it was processed and used in pet food production which made its way to store shelves across the US and Canada. The factory is located in Streets Ville, Ontario, and all the dog food and cat food made there will not be recalled from stores.
A company spokesman stated that the total amount of contaminated food was less that one percent of its output in December and January. The tainted wheat gluten was purchased and imported by the Company from its Chinese business partner.
What adds tension to the case is the statement of the FDA of last week which assured that absolutely no tainted pet food by Menu Foods Inc made its way to Canada, saying that Canadian dog and cat food products were safe to consume. "What a shock it was to learn this week that this was not the case, and we could have prevented further poisoning of pets in Canada," says the CEO of "Royal Canin Canada."
Menu Foods was one of the six companies which were affected by the contaminated wheat gluten they were buying from China. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) blocked any further imports of Chinese wheat gluten until the investigation on how industrial melamine could have gotten into their vegetable protein.
Meanwhile veterinarians across the US noted a thirty percent increase in kidney failure among cats and dogs during the three months when tainted pet food was sold in the United States. Analysts think that the total sad effects of pet contamination are yet to be seen.
Most important advice on choosing a pet:
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