Menu Foods

Menu Foods Limited is a manufacturer of wet feed for cats and dogs in North America (USA and Canada).

The feed is offered in almost 100 different brand names in various price ranges and sales channels, mainly through supermarkets, pet supply chains and wholesalers. Menu Foods produced for almost all of the largest U.S. pet food dealers, inter alia, PetSmart, Safeway, Wal- Mart, Pet Valu, Kroger and Ahold. Menu Foods is a contract manufacturer also produces branded products for the largest North American provider. After Procter & Gamble sold its production plant in South Dakota 2003 Menu Foods, the company is the exclusive manufacturer of wet food for the P & G pet food subsidiary " Iams " ( brand " IAMS ", " Eukanuba " and others). Furthermore, Menu Foods for Loblaw produces the brand " President's Choice " for A & P "Master Choice " for Sobey " Compliments " for Safeway "Select" and essentially all animal feed Nutro. Some of the feed brands such as Eukanuba and Nutro are also traded in the German-speaking countries.

The headquarters of Menu Foods is Streetsville, Ontario ( Canada). There are entertained four production sites, in addition to Streetsville, three in the United States: Emporia (Kansas ) Pennsauken (New Jersey), North Sioux City ( South Dakota). All production plants together have a capacity of over one billion packs per year.

In March 2007, the company made ​​headlines when several pets ill and died of acute renal failure who had eaten produced by Menu Foods lining. So far, about 200 such morbidity or death were known, thousands are feared. Then about 60 million food packs had to be recalled. Analysis revealed a contamination of some batches with aminopterin and melamine in the added as extenders, binders and thickeners, and a source of protein wheat gluten, which had been imported from China. It is believed that the aminopterin have been used there as rat poison. Maybe, but also other impurities play a role according to the latest findings.