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FDA Urges Caution Amid Pet Food Salmonella and Listeria Contamination

Products from two different pet food brands have tested positive for both types of bacteria.

Answers Pet Food has voluntarily recalled its affected products, while Darwin's Natural Pet Products is still selling the products flagged by the FDA for salmonella and Listeria monocytogenes.
Answers Pet Food has voluntarily recalled its affected products, while Darwin's Natural Pet Products is still selling the products flagged by the FDA for salmonella and Listeria monocytogenes.
Left: Answers Pet Food / Right: FDA

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has issued warnings about pet food from Answers Pet Food and Darwin’s Natural Pet Products due to contamination with salmonella and Listeria.

In a recent release, the FDA announced five samples of Dawrin’s Natural Pet Products raw cat and dog food had tested positive for salmonella, and a sixth had tested positive for both salmonella and Listeria monocytogenes.

Answers Pet Food on September 22 issued a voluntary recall of three dog food products “out of an abundance of caution,” after FDA samples tested positive for salmonella and Listeria monocytogenes.

Arrow Reliance, the company that manufactures Darwin’s Natural Pet Products, has not recalled its affected products. Darwin's claimed in a September 20 release that it is confident its products are safe for pets, that salmonella and Listeria are not typically harmful to pets, and that the FDA public notice is “wholly unnecessary, and ultimately, based on flawed regulatory decision-making.”

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