Jaclyn Bowen, the executive director of Clean Label Project expressed a lack of surprise at the pentobarbital findings. The company has narrowed its investigation to “…a single supplier and a single, minor ingredient…” used at that facility. “However, pentobarbital should never be present in pet food and products containing any amount of pentobarbital are considered to be adulterated,” said the FDA spokesperson.Īll of the products included on Smucker’s retailer recall list came from the same manufacturing facility. According to Smucker, the amounts of pentobarbital found in their product “…do not pose a threat to pet safety.”Īn FDA spokesperson told Food Safety News Wednesday that the agency’s “…preliminary evaluation of the testing results of Gravy Train samples indicates that the low level of pentobarbital present in the withdrawn products is unlikely to pose a health risk to pets. The samples were analyzed to determine both the presence and the amount of pentobarbital in the dog foods, using test methods consistent with FDA protocols. Inc., an adulteration that resulted in illnesses of several pets and at least one death.īeginning in October 2017, Clean Label Project obtained 99 retail samples of various brands of canned/wet dog food for pentobarbital analysis by Ellipse Analytics, a Denver laboratory. The study was undertaken in response to the 2017 discovery of pentobarbital in brands of canned/wet dog food manufactured by Evanger’s Dog & Cat Food Co. Gravy Train was the only brand of pet food included in the study that was found to contain pentobarbital. area station, according to a spokesperson from the Clean Label Project, which conducted the study for the news station. The contamination was detected during the course of a study commissioned by WJLA, a Washington D.C. 8 media report of low levels of pentobarbital contamination in some Gravy Train products. Smucker initiated the product withdrawal following a Feb. Premium Strips in Gravy with Beef – UPC: 7910050245

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