New Pet Food Recall from Mars Petcare

There is apparently a new pet food recall involving salmonella contamination with Mars Pet Food:

FRANKLIN, Tenn., Sept 12, 2008 /PRNewswire-USNewswire via COMTEX/ — Mars Petcare US Announces Nationwide Voluntary Recall Today, Mars Petcare US announced a voluntary recall of products manufactured at its Everson, Pennsylvania facility. The pet food is being voluntarily recalled because of potential contamination with Salmonella serotype Schwarzengrund. This voluntary recall only affects the United States. [...] The company stopped production at the Everson facility on July 29, 2008 when it was alerted of a possible link between dry pet food produced at the plant and two isolated cases of people infected with Salmonella Schwarzengrund. Even though no direct link between product produced at Everson and human or pet illness has been made, Mars Petcare US is taking precautionary action to protect pets and their owners by announcing a voluntary recall of all products produced at the Everson facility beginning February 18, 2008 until July 29, 2008 when we stopped production.

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