Diamond Dog Food Question

"At least 49 people have fallen ill since October in a Salmonella Infantis outbreak linked to dog and cat food manufactured at a Diamond Pet Foods facility in Gaston, South Carolina, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in its final outbreak update. That case count has risen from 22 since the CDC’s previous update on June 13."
http://www.foodsafetynews.com/2012/0...count-hits-49/

"A total of 49 individuals (47 individuals in 20 states and two individuals in Canada) infected with the outbreak strain of Salmonella Infantis were reported. "
http://www.cdc.gov/salmonella/dog-food-05-12/index.html

Just the FACTS...

"In December 2005, the FDA sent Diamond a warning letter, noting that investigators found several violations during inspection. The inspector’s observations, namely that all reasonable precautions weren’t being taken to prevent contamination, were similar to those made this year when the FDA inspected the plant in April and found food safety violations.

Despite FDA warnings, a deadly outbreak and a recall of historic proportions, food safety at the Gaston plant didn’t improve enough to prevent a recall in 2007, 2009, and 2010 or the 10 current recalls and and outbreak causing human illness, including an 8-week-old baby who was hospitalized for three days. There are some people who believe their pets have also been sickened."

http://foodpoisoningbulletin.com/201...ry-of-trouble/


Hey Jackwagon and the other peanut, tell me again about how Purina is as bad as Diamond.

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Originally Posted by Paul "Happy" Gilmore

All of the "actual" information is available on the FDA and CDC websites. They had a recall this year for Salmonella which sickened 14 people.

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Are you ignorant of the facts?

Are you unable to read and understand written English?

Or are you just a liar?

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Originally Posted by captainjack

"At least 49 people have fallen ill since October in a Salmonella Infantis outbreak linked to dog and cat food manufactured at a Diamond Pet Foods facility in Gaston, South Carolina, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in its final outbreak update. That case count has risen from 22 since the CDC’s previous update on June 13."
http://www.foodsafetynews.com/2012/0...count-hits-49/

"A total of 49 individuals (47 individuals in 20 states and two individuals in Canada) infected with the outbreak strain of Salmonella Infantis were reported. "
http://www.cdc.gov/salmonella/dog-food-05-12/index.html

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Originally Posted by captainjack

Are you ignorant of the facts?

Are you unable to read and understand written English?

Or are you just a liar?

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I read the field report on the CDC webpage. If you read the complete study there is some other information that is fun to paraphrase and partially quote. This is from the link you provided.

"Of 17 ill persons who could recall the type of dog food with which they had contact, 11 (65%) identified dry dog food produced by Diamond Pet Foods that may have been produced at a single facility in South Carolina."

"Children can be exposed to the bacteria by simply holding, cuddling, or kissing the birds. Children should not handle baby chicks or other young birds. Everyone should immediately wash their hands after touching birds, including baby chicks and ducklings, or their environment."

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Originally Posted by Paul "Happy" Gilmore

I read the field report on the CDC webpage. If you read the complete study there is some other information that is fun to paraphrase and partially quote. This is from the link you provided.

"Of 17 ill persons who could recall the type of dog food with which they had contact, 11 (65%) identified dry dog food produced by Diamond Pet Foods that may have been produced at a single facility in South Carolina."

"Children can be exposed to the bacteria by simply holding, cuddling, or kissing the birds. Children should not handle baby chicks or other young birds. Everyone should immediately wash their hands after touching birds, including baby chicks and ducklings, or their environment."

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Thanks for clearing it up Jackwagon. You're a liar.

"Epidemiologic and laboratory investigations conducted by officials in local, state, and federal public health, agriculture, and regulatory agencies linked this outbreak to dry dog food produced by Diamond Pet Foods at a single production facility in Gaston, South Carolina."

Hey Jackwagon, water is wet. Run with that one for a while.

Pretty much, if you see on the label an address with Meta, MO, it's made by Diamond.

I have not gone back and reread the recall, but from what I remember it was mainly a East coast problem. No dogs on the West coast where involved in the out break. Cost Co put puts out a good product ( except for the beets " Icky" )

Canidae has been contracted w/ Diamond for several years but just opened a state of the art processing plant in TX. I'm really hoping they will be able to process all of thier own now. I fortunately was not involved w/ any of the recalls here in WA.

I really hate doing janitor work on a Saturday.

I really do.

*locked*

Private messages getting sent.

Chris