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No Del Monte dry cat food, dry dog food, wet cat food or pouched pet foods are subject to this voluntary recall. The affected products comprise less than one-tenth of one percent of Del Monte Pet Products' annual pet food and pet treat production.

Del Monte Pet Products has proactively engaged and fully cooperated with the FDA since the start of its investigation. The adulterated ingredients were used in limited production over the last three months for those items identified by specific product codes. Del Monte Pet Products has not used wheat gluten from this manufacturing facility in China in any other pet products except those described below.

Consumers should discontinue feeding the products with the Product Codes detailed below to their pets.

Del Monte Pet Products are 100% guaranteed and all voluntarily recalled products will be refunded.

Del Monte Pet Products customers can contact our Consumer Hotline at (800) 949-3799 for further information about the recall and for instructions on obtaining a product refund. If consumers visit our website, they can click on the "Contact Us" button and submit the Contact Us form, including UPC number, product name, Best By Date, and manufacturing code information (located under the Best By date). Consumers may also write to us at:

Del Monte Foods , P.O. Box 80 ,Pittsburgh PA 15230-0080.

OR

You may use the form on Del Monte's web site (Susan Peters)

**UPDATE**

Any of the above mentioned contact information for Del Monte is no longer available. Del Monte was ordered by the United States court system to have no further contact with Del Monte pet food consumers. Seems that Del Monte was hasseling the people who were filing claims against the company and offering unfair dollar amounts as a settlement.

Be aware most companies involved in the Pet Food recall of 2007 are asking the consumer to throw away any opened containers of pet food and to return any unused pet foods to the store which the products were purchased. Companies involved in the 2007 pet food recall are also asking you to return the unused product to the company that produced the pet food.

Let me advise you to keep any unused recalled product. Do NOT return the product to the company or to the store where the product was purchased. I would advise to Not have the products tested through the company which produced the pet food. If you would like to have your pet food tested you should submit a sample to an independent lab for testing.

Keep all receipts. Keep original containers (if possible). Once a tainted product is out of your hands, you no longer have any proof of the content of the product. Do Not return any unused, recalled products!

-Susan Peters

Other Sites of Interest:

• Ask Susan Peters (click here)

This site will link you to all of the articles written by Susan Peters.

• Pet Food Recall Information (click here)