Fish Food Recall

[joycould]

Today I went to Petsmart to get some betta food I found a couple of signs saying there was a recall but no information. The salesman said it was a mislabeling thing. When I got home I started going through the posts on other forums as well as this one nothing showed up. I googled it and this link showed up http/petsitusa.com/blog/?p=375
20002 Crab and Lobster Bites 1.3oz
11012 Goldfish Bites 1.5oz
11013 Goldfish Nibblets 4.3oz
11024 Goldfish Nibblets 8.0oz
11015 Goldfish Nibblets 32oz
11016 Goldfish Nuggets 32oz
25000 Shrimp Pellets 1.6oz
25001 Shrimp Pellets 4.6oz
25002 Shrimp Pellets 9.1oz
22001 African Cichlid Attack 3.8oz
22008 African Cichlid Attack 8.0oz
22009 African Cichlid Attack 28oz
11017 Oscar Bites 1oz
11018 Oscar Grow 3.8oz
11019 Oscar Show 8oz
22012 Super Cichlid Sinkers 29oz
20007 Baby Bites 1.2oz

that is the list being recalled. It was recalled May 30th and this is the first I have heard about it.

 

[*Fishkies*]

oh wow that is very interesting! I have never heard about anything like this....hmmmm

 

[TylerFerretLord]

That's actually kind of scary. o.o

 

[Danno]

The companies have confirmed that Tembec added melamine as part of the formulation of the products to improve the binding properties of pelleted feed. Melamine is not approved as an additive for animal or fish/shrimp feed.

Well that's not good!

 

[Bignose]

The companies have confirmed that Tembec added melamine as part of the formulation of the products to improve the binding properties of pelleted feed. Melamine is not approved as an additive for animal or fish/shrimp feed.

Well that's not good!

Especially since the primary reason melamine is added is NOT to "improve the binding properties" but in fact, melamine is a very high nitrogen compound, just like protein. Melamine is added so that when the standard tests are performed, the nitrogen readings are higher and the assumption used to be (before these pet food recalls) was that higher nitrogen reading = higher protein. And, of course, the higher protein the food, the more you could charge for it. Tests for melamine and like compounds will now become part of the stardard test because you can't trust people to not put money first.