Please be aware that Nutro Products announced a voluntary recall of select varieties of NUTRO® NATURAL CHOICE® COMPLETE CARE® Dry Cat Foods and NUTRO® MAX® Cat Dry Foods with “Best If Used By Dates†between May 12, 2010 and August 22, 2010. The cat food is being voluntarily recalled in the United States and ten additional countries. This recall is due to incorrect levels of zinc and potassium in the finished product resulting from a production error by a US-based premix supplier.
Get all the details on the Nutro Products website.
May 23rd, 2009 at 1:11 pm
The site says to call your vet if your cat has symptoms including vomiting or diarrhea, but what kind of problems can this cause, are any long lasting? I wish the website for the food would have been more comprehensive in what to look for or what could happen. I don’t have this food, just worried about the ones who do and don’t get the notice about the recall!
Thank you for putting it here on your page! I know a lot more people will get the notice now thanks to you! Thank YOU!!
May 23rd, 2009 at 2:00 pm
Yikes! Thanks for letting us know.
May 23rd, 2009 at 10:00 pm
Yes, Kate, big thanks for posting.
May 24th, 2009 at 7:02 am
My fuzzball and I thank you so much for this post. Our bag of cat food is on the recall list, so I’d better return it to the store and bring home other food before she decides she’s hungry! Even if she shows no signs of illness (which I’ll be watching closely for), it’s still scary to know that the food she’s been eating isn’t what I intended for her to eat.
I don’t know how I would have found out about this recall otherwise. My mom works for a vet, and she must not know about this.
May 24th, 2009 at 7:58 am
Just wanted to tell you that you rock! With so much information to keep up with…. it is nice to have someone watching out for our furry friends. Thank you.
May 24th, 2009 at 8:10 am
Thank you sooo much for this quick and prompt notification. I am going to my local pet store to warn them…as well as all my friends who are cat owners! From the bottom of our hearts and from every cat out there……….thank you!
May 24th, 2009 at 11:15 am
Thanks for the info. I made the switch from Nutro Complete Care to Royal Canin Feline Indoor 27 about 9 months ago.
May 24th, 2009 at 11:20 am
Thanks for this. We *could* have been using this, as we have been for years – but I recently switched to another type because it was on sale!
May 24th, 2009 at 11:41 pm
Thanks for posting, I’m going to pass this info on to my pet owner friends and those who volunteer at the humane society with me!
May 25th, 2009 at 7:36 am
THANK YOU for the heads up. luckily I only have the Nurto canned
May 26th, 2009 at 5:25 am
I used Nutro and switched after the wet food recall in 2007, which ended up making my senior kitty very sick. I thought I was buying one of the best foods available and it turns out it was the same junk that was in a lot of the other cheap brands. I switched to Wellness, which my kitties LOVE. Petsmart doesn’t carry it yet but Petco and Whole Foods do. Although recently I’ve been ordering it off of PetFoodDirect. There are much better pet food options now, including food that is grain-free and human grade.
May 26th, 2009 at 7:36 am
We also used the Nutro pouch foods until the recall and had the same horrific reaction as Amy(#11). Our cat kids are now Wellness fans.
Our dry food has always been Flint River Ranch (frrco.com) though, they have an excellent cat kibble product line. All people grade ingredients. You won’t find it in stores because shipping is free.
May 28th, 2009 at 10:13 am
Wow, thanks for informing us, otherwise i’d never have known. I buy Nutro Max for mine so I’ll have to check when I get home.
June 6th, 2009 at 7:39 pm
My 13 year old cat started showing signs of being quite ill after eating some of the recalled Nutro food. He was very lethargic and vomiting. My vet ran tests and he is severely anemic due to a nutritional deficiency! He could have died. Please please, if your cats have eaten this food, and showing any signs of illness, get them to the vet.