Updated Diamond Food Recall listing all brands involved

Smalltowngirl · #1 05/06/12, 12:49 PM

FYI, Attention Dog and Cat Owners - Diamond Pet Foods has just found and corrected an error in the bag code information it listed in its Friday night recall announcement.
Since the event now includes 12 brands (instead of the 9 originally reported), it's important for you to re-check the new information to be sure you're not feeding an affected product.

The following is a list of all the brands currently associated with the Diamond Dog Food Recall:

Diamond Dog Food Recall Summary

woodsy · #2 05/06/12, 01:33 PM

thanks for posting this info.

Checked the code and date on our 4 health chicken and rice formula, 2/3 gone and looks like that product is in the recall .

Minelson · #3 05/06/12, 03:16 PM

Thanks! I checked my 2 bags of TOTW and one of them (the one I'm feeding out of!) has the recall product code.
This really stinks! I guess it's time to start making my own food for them.

Veronica · #4 05/06/12, 04:13 PM

Our dog's food was recalled. I had to stop on the way into work to pick up some Blue Buffalo Wilderness since one of the dogs needs to be grain free. They adjusted to the new food right away though, so I was happy about that.
I've considered making my own food, and picked up 2 cookbooks at the library, but for 2 big dogs it gets pretty pricey.

Minelson · #5 05/06/12, 05:29 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Veronica

Our dog's food was recalled. I had to stop on the way into work to pick up some Blue Buffalo Wilderness since one of the dogs needs to be grain free. They adjusted to the new food right away though, so I was happy about that.
I've considered making my own food, and picked up 2 cookbooks at the library, but for 2 big dogs it gets pretty pricey.

I know what you mean....I cooked for Shep for over 10 years. That I could deal with but that was before I had 2 horses, 8 cats, 2 more dogs, 3 goats, 2 baby goats on bottles, 5 chickens, 2 ducks and a pregos mini-donk! Oh and a husband

bluemoonluck · #6 05/06/12, 06:58 PM

I loved feeding raw, but my dogs can't have any chicken or beef due to allergy issues. And all those people who go on and on about how raw feeding is cheaper can only say that because they can give their dogs chicken!

Feeding raw when the primary source of protein needs to be lamb, fish, or rabbit is NOT cheaper than feeding kibble. Even when I raised my own rabbits to feed, I still spent more on rabbit food every month than I would have spent on kibble for the dogs.

I'm still feeding the 4Health. None of the bags I have are affected by the recall. The way I see it, at least Diamond is jumping up and down letting everyone know about the recall, rather than trying to cover it up

TJN66 · #7 05/06/12, 07:16 PM

Great...what do I feed my dog now? He eats chicken soup and so do my cats. Any recommendations? Other than going raw what else is left?

Veronica · #8 05/08/12, 12:28 PM

I saw at DogFoodAdvisor.com that they rate the BJ's Wholesale Club Holistic Brand pretty favorably. (Not the regular BJs brand as that has corn in it). The ingredients look pretty good - chicken, rice, oats, blueberries, spinach, etc. From what I read about their food in the comment section of dogfood advisor, they use a small company and use US ingredients to make the holistic food. I grabbed a bag - it was $19.99 for 16 lbs. Not the cheapest, but not too bad. Since it isn't grain free, I'll probably mix it with the blue buffalo I bought to make it stretch a bit.

BarbadosSheep · #9 05/09/12, 07:16 AM

There are a few brands that are worth looking into. The most reasonably priced one is still higher than 4-health but less than Taste of The Wild. Check out the Fromm brands. Their lowest cost one has ingredients similar to 4-health. They also have higher end foods that cost a lot more. Fromm (Fromm Family Foods Gourmet Dog & Cat Food, Naturally Holistic) has been in business since 1904 and has never had a recall. They do not outsource anything. Also look into Acana and Orijin, both of which are made by the same company, champion pet foods (Champion Petfoods | ACANA | About Us). They have also never had a recall. The food is pretty expensive but depending on the size of your dog it may not be a consideration. And another good one is Earthborn (Home : Earthborn Holistic Pet Food) but I don't know anything about it personally. My goal this year is to get all of my big dogs and outside dogs on raw, and put the little dogs on one of the higher end Fromm foods.

If this was Diamond's first issue, I would probably let this go and keep using a Diamond product. But this is not their first issue. This time is isn't serious, but last time a lot of dogs died. This shows me that they are failing in their quality control efforts. You would think that after the last recall they would have been much more serious about quality control but this latest incident proves they are not. So I have lost confidence in them.

GrannyCarol · #10 05/09/12, 09:51 AM

I'm in the feeding quandary myself, I've fed medium level dog foods for ages to my dogs and most of them have done just fine on it. My Silkys went to Kirkland's small dog food after they (and me) retired from showing and are 15 and 16 years old. Now they get mostly canned, because they don't eat so well and their appetites aren't that good.

However, I just got this lovely Collie puppy and have become aware of all the new choices - haven't really paid attention for 8-9 years. I used to raise my English Setters on good old Purina High Pro and add a little oil and eggs to it... and conditioned my winning show dogs on Eukanuba. Now it seems those aren't any good any more. Now the whole corn/soy GM garbage food and imported outsourced ingredients make most dog food unacceptable and everyone's dog is on a special diet. I'm not sure what to think. I used to feed middle of the road food to my breeding animals on the theory that I didn't want to raise dogs that weren't vigorous on what the average pet owner feeds, but I'm getting a lot more educated as to what is currently in those feeds and I don't so much want to go that way... and I'm not a breeder any more either.

I really wish it were easy to know what is a quality premium food at a reasonable price. It seems that many are on the "make a fancy food and charge outrageous prices" band wagon. I really don't want to do that either!

What about the frozen raw type formulations? Or the more natural hard loaf (can't think of the right words to describe it) type foods? Sheesh, what is out there that will nourish my puppy and not kill her?

Veronica · #11 05/09/12, 01:19 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by GrannyCarol

I'm in the feeding quandary myself, I've fed medium level dog foods for ages to my dogs and most of them have done just fine on it. My Silkys went to Kirkland's small dog food after they (and me) retired from showing and are 15 and 16 years old. Now they get mostly canned, because they don't eat so well and their appetites aren't that good.

However, I just got this lovely Collie puppy and have become aware of all the new choices - haven't really paid attention for 8-9 years. I used to raise my English Setters on good old Purina High Pro and add a little oil and eggs to it... and conditioned my winning show dogs on Eukanuba. Now it seems those aren't any good any more. Now the whole corn/soy GM garbage food and imported outsourced ingredients make most dog food unacceptable and everyone's dog is on a special diet. I'm not sure what to think. I used to feed middle of the road food to my breeding animals on the theory that I didn't want to raise dogs that weren't vigorous on what the average pet owner feeds, but I'm getting a lot more educated as to what is currently in those feeds and I don't so much want to go that way... and I'm not a breeder any more either.

I really wish it were easy to know what is a quality premium food at a reasonable price. It seems that many are on the "make a fancy food and charge outrageous prices" band wagon. I really don't want to do that either!

What about the frozen raw type formulations? Or the more natural hard loaf (can't think of the right words to describe it) type foods? Sheesh, what is out there that will nourish my puppy and not kill her?

Someone recommended Whole Earth Farms. The price isn't bad $36.40 for a 35 pound bag on Amazon. They also have wet food. Earthborn is another that was recommended. I haven't tried either of those but I'm looking at all options right now. It is very confusing, especially since we had been happy with what the dogs were on.

dbarjacres · #12 05/09/12, 01:55 PM

I'm in a quandry over this as well. We feed Diamond to the outside dog sometimes, but always feed Canidae, Natural Balance or Pure Vita to the inside dogs (we switch between what our distributer has on special but always stick to those three brands). We stopped Natural Balance this fall because it wasn't getting very good ratings anymore and have been feeding primarily Canidae (and have for years) and now I think we're going to the Pure Vita and will just pay full price when necessary.

The distributor place where we can get our discounted pet food from I stopped at yesterday and she said they are 500 bags negative on their order forms and lots of people are MAD!

I've got some buy one get one free coupons on Infinia from PMI that I may try. The dogs like the sample bags I bring home from the Purina store when I go.

GrannyCarol · #13 05/09/12, 02:31 PM

Maybe I'll just feed her the healthier table scraps and quit worrying about it all the time!

tailwagging · #14 05/09/12, 02:36 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by BarbadosSheep

There are a few brands that are worth looking into. The most reasonably priced one is still higher than 4-health but less than Taste of The Wild. Check out the Fromm brands. Their lowest cost one has ingredients similar to 4-health. They also have higher end foods that cost a lot more. Fromm (Fromm Family Foods Gourmet Dog & Cat Food, Naturally Holistic) has been in business since 1904 and has never had a recall. They do not outsource anything. Also look into Acana and Orijin, both of which are made by the same company, champion pet foods (Champion Petfoods | ACANA | About Us). They have also never had a recall. The food is pretty expensive but depending on the size of your dog it may not be a consideration. And another good one is Earthborn (Home : Earthborn Holistic Pet Food) but I don't know anything about it personally. My goal this year is to get all of my big dogs and outside dogs on raw, and put the little dogs on one of the higher end Fromm foods.

If this was Diamond's first issue, I would probably let this go and keep using a Diamond product. But this is not their first issue. This time is isn't serious, but last time a lot of dogs died. This shows me that they are failing in their quality control efforts. You would think that after the last recall they would have been much more serious about quality control but this latest incident proves they are not. So I have lost confidence in them.

Last time it wasn't their fault. it was the mill that sent them the corn. the corn should have been sent for cattle use, not pet.
what was told to the distributors is it is a new test being used and that even though the food passed for pet food and COULD be sold that way, and that is why it is a voluntary recall not a manditroy recall or just a "recall"

ozark_jewels · #15 05/09/12, 04:14 PM

More and more toxins are being found in corn. Its not only dogfood that has suffered. Many dairies have lost multiple cows, production and breed-back due to toxins in corn. Many feedstores have taken to testing every batch brought in.
Me?? I think its due to what us humans are doing to corn!!!

wolffeathers · #16 05/09/12, 04:37 PM

I just wanted to pop in and say thanks to the OP for posting this.

Yesterday morning woke up to find a spot on the carpet where the boys had cleaned up an oops. Isolated incidence, sometimes the pups find something in the yard that upsets their stomache. Didn't think much of it.

This morning woke up to three attempted cleanings of vomit and about 10 other piles of vomit. It was a wonderful morning. Tried to figure out what possibly the dogs could have gotten into and was worried it was an intestinal blockage because there was nothing in the piles but half digested kibble. Lo and behold I get online this afternoon and find this thread. Checked our unopened bag of 4Health and it was included in the recall, so took that bag and the bag we were 2/3 the way through(bought at the same time as the unopened), back to TSC.

Poor pups!

GrannyCarol · #17 05/09/12, 04:40 PM

The corn we have today in feeds has very little in common with the corn fed 50 years ago. First it was bred for production at the cost of nutrition, then GM'd to produce it's own insecticides and to withstand tons of herbicides. Then, of course, the farmers can put more herbicide on our food and our pet's food. Yes, I think it is what we are doing to corn, more than just basic corn being a problem food. Corn also is susceptible to molds that produce aflatoxins that cause illness and death in pets and livestock, so that, even if the mold is killed, the toxins remain behind.

Soy is widely used in feed for livestock and for pets too. It has been GM'd as well and it mimics estrogen hormones - not a good feed in that state for man or pet or livestock.

There is so much pollution, insecticides, herbicides and basically poor quality feeds out there that it is getting scary. Here, read up on GM foods at this website:

Institute for Responsible Technology - State of the Science Report

Then you add in the processing plants, where large batches of food are processed and it is pretty easy for ONE step to contaminate a huge amount of food and our pet foods (and OUR foods) are getting less and less healthy to eat.

tailwagging · #18 05/09/12, 05:46 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by GrannyCarol

Then you add in the processing plants, where large batches of food are processed and it is pretty easy for ONE step to contaminate a huge amount of food and our pet foods (and OUR foods) are getting less and less healthy to eat.

yup, that is why the recall is sooo big. any food that was processed before sanitizing the whole line and/or plant. so one batch ran can contaminate the rest of the day/days

woodsy · #19 05/10/12, 09:03 AM

I see some other people are looking for what to feed next and i stumbled upon a pretty good article
about the ins and outs of various dry dog foods including prices so have a look.

Dog Foods - How to Choose?

I am going to see if Canidae or Premium Edge are available in the area.. Similar price range as the 4 Health was.

You can also google Dog food analysis once you narrow down your choices for further insight/recommendations into that specific food.

mellba · #20 05/15/12, 05:36 PM

What about Merrick food? I've been using it for a while and my dogs like it, but I wondered if anybody had heard anything bad about this company. My dogs usually eat Turduckin or Grammie's Pot Pie from Merrick.

BarbadosSheep · #21 05/16/12, 06:44 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by woodsy

I see some other people are looking for what to feed next and i stumbled upon a pretty good article
about the ins and outs of various dry dog foods including prices so have a look.

Dog Foods - How to Choose?

I am going to see if Canidae or Premium Edge are available in the area.. Similar price range as the 4 Health was.

You can also google Dog food analysis once you narrow down your choices for further insight/recommendations into that specific food.

Canidae is priced like 4-health because it's probably the same food with a different label. It's made by Diamond and was included in this recall.

Diamond also makes Premium Edge. It had a serious recall a couple of years ago that sickened a lot of pets.

Merrick looks like a decent product but it's also been recalled in the past for Salmonella. It looks like very few brands have managed to not have recalls. I think I am switching to Fromm.

Veronica · #22 05/16/12, 08:14 AM

Merrick has had some recalls, but it seems like most of them have at some point. It looks like a pretty decent food - check dogfoodadvisor.com. I like the look of their Whole Earth Farms recipe.
One of our dogs has not adjusted well to Blue Buffalo Wilderness at all. I talked to a local dog food shop, and he recommended some things so we're going to try once Frieda feels better. After talking to him I actually feel a bit better about TOTW, so I may keep that in the rotation. We'll see. We're looking at going with Rotations, Fromm, or Acana for now.

BarbadosSheep · #23 05/16/12, 08:42 AM

I just ordered two bags of Merrick Whole Earth Farms from Amazon. It's $36.40 a bag and free shipping. That's a pretty darn good deal I think. I have my dogs on Blue Buffalo now, but of my 6 dogs, 3 of them don't like it much. One hardly eats it at all. I may end up with Fromm at some point because I like the fact they have never had a recall. I may end up mixing two products from two different manufactures because that way if one of them has a recall, the dogs have only gotten half of the toxins rather than a full dose. I know that's kind of extreme, but what else can you do?

woodsy · #24 05/17/12, 07:04 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by BarbadosSheep

Canidae is priced like 4-health because it's probably the same food with a different label. It's made by Diamond and was included in this recall.

Diamond also makes Premium Edge. It had a serious recall a couple of years ago that sickened a lot of pets.

Merrick looks like a decent product but it's also been recalled in the past for Salmonella. It looks like very few brands have managed to not have recalls. I think I am switching to Fromm.

Looks like i didn't do my research very well, thanks for pointing this out.

Now i'm really in a quandary .

The search goes on.

dbarjacres · #25 05/17/12, 07:17 AM

We made the switch to PureVita by NutriSourcre last weekend. I talked to their rep at an event we were at and no recalls in 40 yrs of the company. They make their own food at their own plant in Minnesota . Plus it is approved in Whole Dog Journal. The dogs love it as do the cats.

longshadowfarms · #26 05/17/12, 12:09 PM

Interesting reading. Not surprising to me at all.

The Plot Thickens, Clues to Big Issues

BarbadosSheep · #27 05/17/12, 01:23 PM

wow. good link and a very interesting read.

tailwagging · #28 05/17/12, 01:53 PM

mmmm have you ever thought that someone just might like to bring down the pet food companies? make pet food so high less could afford it?

Minelson · #29 05/17/12, 02:57 PM

I ordered a small bag of the Earthborn Holistic no grain food. (thanks Barbadosheep) I order from PetFlow | Get Started. good prices and cheap/free delivery. I hope my dogs like it

Veronica · #30 05/17/12, 06:37 PM

I ordered Rotations and we'll see how they do. I'm looking for small companies that will actually talk to you about their product and this one fit the bill. I stumbled across them when I was looking at the BJ's holistic chicken food. They make it I think. So I bought that, and am going to rotate with this and another food that is grain free (Rotations is not grain free). Not sure which one yet - Fromm, Nature's Logic, Acana. I am starting to add some things of my own and in the future I just may make our own dog food but not there yet.
It's so confusing.