Blue Buffalo Company has issued a voluntary recall for specific lots of Blue Buffalo Homestyle Recipe Healthy Weight due to possible aluminum metal contamination.
What’s Recalled?
The recalled product includes:
- Blue Buffalo Homestyle Recipe Healthy Weight, Chicken Dinner with Garden Vegetables
- 12.5 ounce can
- UPC: 8-40243-10017-0
- Codes: Best By 08/03/2019
The “Best By” date is on the bottom of the can.
No other Blue Buffalo products are involved. The company has not received any reports of illness or injury as a result of the problems giving rise to this recall.
“This is a very scary situation for dog owners and is indicative of the problems that are coming to light in commercial dog foods,” says Leslie Kessinger, co-owner of Three Dog Bakery in Franklin. “There are poor food safety standards in place at many large producers that cause contamination and the development of pathogens.”
Kessinger says premium dog food brands are very open about their safety practices and rigorously test its food before it leaves their facility for sale. “Champion Pet Foods, for example, holds bags of dog food in their facility until the results of their testing clears the product for sale,” she notes. “This is a preferred method over testing product after it’s left the facility or not testing the product at all.”
What to Do?
Customers are invited to return the impacted product to your local retailer for a full refund. For additional information, call 866-800-2917.
U.S. citizens can report complaints about FDA-regulated pet food products by calling the consumer complaint coordinator in your area or go to http://www.fda.gov/petfoodcomplaints.
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