Actually, the pet food recalls concerned mostly WET dog and cat foods, not dry. While some dry foods were recalled they were only a small minority of the items/brands affected (which did not, of course, make the owners of sick or dead pets feel any better).
Menu Foods of Ontario, Canada was where most (but not all) of the contaminated food came from in North America, but it would be a mistake to assume all affected pet food came from one factory. It was a world-wide problem, and linked to contaminated batches of gluten derived from wheat, rice, and corn (most of the corn gluten going to South Africa, for instance) Menu Foods did (and still does) produce pet food products for something like 100 brands in North America.
Eukanuba had Menu Foods of Ontario produce their wet dog food products, but the dry Eukanuba was manufactured separately, thus, only some of their brand was affected, not all of it.
As I pointed out, only some products were affected. It was by no means all product lines of these companies.
Which was done by the gluten producers in China, not the pet food manufacturers, which is why melamine contamination was found in human food as well.
Yes. There was a recall and the factory switched to different suppliers.
Yes - because the problem was by no means limited to North America. The contaminated gluten products were shipped to companies around the world.
If the factory involved in the recall is actually in the USA then it’s not the same factory involved in the 2008 recall, which was located in Canada.
Note that this recall is concerning DRY foods, as opposed to the WET foods in the melamine contamination. It’s not the same factory. As I also noted, Eukanuba has it’s own factory for dry food so it’s NOT taken out of some massive factory churning out food for dozens of companies and rebranding it, it’s a factory that produces food only for Eukanuba. Hence, other brands are not affected.
As to why the food is being recalled - news reports in the US indicate that something went awry at the factory and bagged pet food was released for shipping and sale without being fully inspected as required by company rules. The concern is not melamine but possible salmonella contamination. No illnesses have been reported as of early September, this is really being done as a precautionary measure and has nothing to do with melamine.
By the way - the food was also recalled in the US
That made me laugh so much - thankyou !!