PET food recall, revisited...

I thought it was some kind of thickening agent, and the company was a first try for pet companies. So they shouldnt have switched. But I don't think it would be human foods.

 

Wheat gluten is a common ingredient used as a binder in these mass-produced pet foods. There is far, far less oversight in the pet food industry--standards are abysmally low. I would think that it would be far harder for this to happen in human foods. Testing is much more stringent, for starters. And when a company's food kills a human, the fallout is a bit more severe. When companies like Menu Foods source their ingredients, they purchase sub-human grade ingredients to cut costs. In all likelihood, this wheat was unable to be sold for human consumption for whatever reasons, sat around for a while and became contaminated with the poison used to prevent losing the stock completely to rodents. Although Menu will be happy that they can isolate a guilty culprit, it exposes the fact that they have little or no ingredient oversight or quality control.