pioneer3mm
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So my dog has ate victor dog food for about two years and I just heard about the recall. I checked the current bag I have and its exp date is in 09-2024 so it has been recalled. My dog has been eating this particular 60lb bag of food for 6 weeks now. Before people come for me, I will still follow the recall recommendations even though this food has not shown any signs of contamination and my dog (nor anyone in my home) has become ill.
However I have to say the recall seems a bit…excessive. The CDC released info about what brought this decision. It’s a total of 7 cases of salmonella across the country, 6 of which are in babies that tend to put yucky things in their mouth, with one outlier case in someone over 65 years old. There’s been no deaths. Only 5 of these cases had contact with a dog, and of those, only 3 reported use of victor dog food brand.
Now this did result in testing that does not look good for victor dog food. There was salmonella in the dog food that closely matched the strain of the 7 cases across the country. So I understand the recall, but it also feels a bit extreme. There’s no reports of if dogs have been sick or hurt (the primary species that ingests the product in question). These 7 cases were spread out over 9 months and 7 states. In that time most dogs go through at least a few bags of dog food. This means that if we are directly tying the dog food to the salmonella cases, then there has been active salmonella in dog food for nearly a year. Meaning, thousands of dog food bags were ingested did not cause any issues. To have only 7 cases of illness and cause an entire wipe out of ALL the products of multiple brands just seems…excessive.
And to reiterate: I will be following the recommendations of the recall. I don’t take chances on my dog’s life. With a recall this massive, I just felt that there would have maybe been more reason to justify it. I question the necessity of widespread recall, and I was wondering if any others felt the same?
However I have to say the recall seems a bit…excessive. The CDC released info about what brought this decision. It’s a total of 7 cases of salmonella across the country, 6 of which are in babies that tend to put yucky things in their mouth, with one outlier case in someone over 65 years old. There’s been no deaths. Only 5 of these cases had contact with a dog, and of those, only 3 reported use of victor dog food brand.
Now this did result in testing that does not look good for victor dog food. There was salmonella in the dog food that closely matched the strain of the 7 cases across the country. So I understand the recall, but it also feels a bit extreme. There’s no reports of if dogs have been sick or hurt (the primary species that ingests the product in question). These 7 cases were spread out over 9 months and 7 states. In that time most dogs go through at least a few bags of dog food. This means that if we are directly tying the dog food to the salmonella cases, then there has been active salmonella in dog food for nearly a year. Meaning, thousands of dog food bags were ingested did not cause any issues. To have only 7 cases of illness and cause an entire wipe out of ALL the products of multiple brands just seems…excessive.
And to reiterate: I will be following the recommendations of the recall. I don’t take chances on my dog’s life. With a recall this massive, I just felt that there would have maybe been more reason to justify it. I question the necessity of widespread recall, and I was wondering if any others felt the same?
