In a move that can only be described as reckless, today Evanger’s Dog & Cat Food Company picked a fight with the United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for (…) Read more
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Evanger’s to Expand Pet Food Recall Amid Horse Meat and Deadly Drug Concerns; Blames Supplier and FDA for Problems
Evanger’s admits to finding horse DNA in its Hunk of Beef pet food in a letter sent to customers Tuesday. The company also has plans to recall all of its (…) Read more
Evanger’s Admits Horse Meat Found in Pet Food; Plans to Recall All Pet Foods with Beef for Pentobarbital Concerns
If you thought things could get any worse for Evanger’s – it just did. Joel Sher, the vice president of the company, admitted to a reporter that DNA analysis found (…) Read more
Evanger’s Misleading Claims, Misplaced Blame and Other Pet Food Lies
Like so many other pet food companies that lie with abandon and take consumers for a ride day in and day out, Evanger’s is distinctive in one respect, somehow they (…) Read more
As Evanger’s Scandal Unfolds, a Look Back at Their Troubled History
The story begins when Joel and Holly Sher, a suburban couple from Northern Illinois, bought Evanger’s, a sixty-seven-year-old pet food cannery, in 2002. Despite its age, Holly remembered, that just (…) Read more
Companion Canned Dog Food Recalled for Metal Fragments, Choking Hazard
Companion canned dog food sold at Stop and Shop, Martin’s Foods, and at Giant Food Store retail outlets is being recalled because it may contain – an as yet unnamed (…) Read more
FDA Confirms Evanger’s Dog Food Contained Euthanasia Drug Pentobarbital
A U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) spokesperson confirmed yesterday that the agency found sodium pentobarbital in unopened cans of Evanger’s dog food, following the recall announced on Friday. As (…) Read more
Euthanasia Drug Found in Evanger’s Dog Food, Causing Illness and Death of Dogs
UPDATE: Phyllis Entis of eFoodAlert received confirmation from an FDA spokesperson that “FDA testing carried out in the agency’s Forensic Chemistry Center and Vet-LIRN labs detected pentobarbital in Talula’s stomach (…) Read more
Find Out What Really Goes on at an AAFCO Pet Food Conference, Attend the Meeting for Free
Have you ever wondered what goes on at an AAFCO Conference? Did you know that AAFCO meetings are free and open to the public? They are. Don’t miss this invaluable (…) Read more
Upscale pet food plant reeks of rotten fish, neighbors complain
Neighbors who live near the WellPet pet food factory in Mishawaka, Indiana may soon be able to breathe without fighting the urge to gag since the plant installed emission control (…) Read more
