Diamond Food Recall

[DixieSugarBear]

FIY, this was on another board I am on. 



Permission to cross post has been given - apparently not all of the contaminated food has been recalled - fyi

> ; "AMERICAN CHESAPEAKE CLUB"
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> Sent: Monday, March 27, 2006 12:39 PM
> Subject: [CBRS4ME] Diamond Dog Food
>
>
> >
> > PERMISSION TO CROSSPOST FAR AND WIDE
> >>
> >> Subject: DIAMOND
> >>
> >> Date: Tue, 14 Mar 2006 10:23:45 EST
> >>
> >> You may think the Diamond food scare is over, or that only a limited
> >> amount of product is involved. Not so.
> >>
> >> On Monday, March 6 - after 3 feedings of Diamond's Premium Edge
> > Chicken,
> >> Rice and Vegetables - we almost lost 3 of our 4 GSDs. The only reason
> > it
> >> did! n't effect the 16 week old is because we kept her on other feed.
> >> Within 20 minutes of ingesting their dinner, 2 of the dogs proceeded
> > to
> >> vomit dark green undigested food and within another 2 minutes they
> > were
> >> foaming at the mouth and stiff-leg gaiting. Another 5 minutes and they
> >
> >> were having what I - as a nurse - would refer to as petit mal
> > seizures.
> >> After a traumatic night at the local emergency clinic, the diagnosis
> > was
> >> "food intoxication from Premium Edge kibble".
> >>
> >> The following day, upon contacting Diamond in Meta, Missouri, I was
> >> assured they would work with me in this and stand behind their
> >> product....the reimbursement for any and all vet care, etc was also
> >> discussed. Upon asking for financial assistance for a test Diamond
! > >> requested at Cornell ($300.00/dog minimum) - a test that per my vet
> > and
> >> those at Cornell said was a CYA call on Diamond's part - they changed
> >> their mind on "helping out". I refused that particular test, awaiting
> >> results from another analysis on samples.
> >>
> >> Notification came yesterday from University of Missouri Vet Met
> >> Diagnostic Lab: "Each of the four submitted samples of dog food
> >> contained approximately 0.5 ppm of vomitoxin, as detected by thin
> > layer
> >> chromotography ...".
> >>
> >> Judging from no reference to this on Premium Edge's website
> > (incredible
> >> how many products Diamond makes but very difficult to trace back to
> > them
> >> - each feed/product seems to have it's own website/contact), no
> > contact
> >> as! of yet from Diamond and certainly no "standing behind" their
> > product
> >> it appears they are not overly concerned about their consumers.
> >>
> >> Research your food thoroughly. If it is even remotely related to
> > Diamond
> >> - DO NOT FEED!! If you are so inclined, please write concerns to
> > Diamond
> >> - you can reference me if so desired. My particular contact was Dr.
> >> Brookshire, Director of Veterinary Services.
> >>
> >> Christine Buff
> >>
> >> Sr. K9 Handler/Trainer, Highland SAR
> >>
> >> Member, Rescue International
> >>
> >> K9 Director, New York State Federation of SAR

[longshadowfarms]

Egads!  Those symptoms are almost identical to what happened with Eider and we couldn't figure out how he got sick!  Diamond Lamb and Rice.  I'd been in the midst of the first scare and was really offended with how Diamond handled it but have been sick since then with lung problems and had not really been able to get out to research what was available in our area to figure out what to switch to.  I FINALLY have been feeling well enough to get out, figured out what I'd like to try and bought some just this past week.  Josh too had thrown up a few times but had not gotten sick beyond that.  Piper just got sicker this past few weeks...  Wonder if I didn't have a bad bag of food too but it is gone now, as are the dogs.  I had to buy a small bag of Diamond in order to have enough to switch over to the new food.  Think I'm feeling sick to my stomach.

[roxygirl]

Oh no...not again! I am sorry that your pups had to go through this. I hope they are all okay now. Diamond better step up to the plate on this one!!!
Kim

[DixieSugarBear]

I know a lot of owner feed Diamond on this board, so when I saw this I had to cross post.

Lisa

[Gypsy Jazmine]

Ty for crossposting this Lisa!!...I recently switched from Diamond's Premium Edge to Canidae...Iowa wasn't supposed to be one of the states affected by the tainted Diamond food but my dogs NEVER had solid, formed stools on the Premium Edge...Canidae shaped things right up...I just wish Canidae had a holistic food...That is just frightning what happened to that lady's dogs & how Diamond handled it just not at all right.