We at the Blue Buffalo Company have just learned that American Nutrition Inc. (ANI), the manufacturer of all our cans and biscuits, has been adding rice protein concentrate to our can formulas without our knowledge and without our approval.
The Denver office of the FDA informed American Nutrition, Inc. that certain samples of rice protein shipped to its production facility have been contaminated with melamine, an industrial chemical used to make plastics and fertilizers that may be harmful to animals if consumed. The rice protein in question was obtained from San Francisco-based Wilbur-Ellis Company.
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Because of the canned pet food recall initiated by American Nutrition Inc., Diamond Pet Foods has announced it is withdrawing a limited number of canned products manufactured by American Nutrition.
The Grocery Manufacturers Association (GMA) issued the following statement from GMA senior director of nutrition and health policy, Alison Kretser, MS, RD, regarding the Institute of Medicine’s (IOM) report entitled Nutrition Standards for Foods in Schools:
The National Institutes of Health (NIH) has established the We Can! City Program to assist towns and cities across the nation in mobilizing their communities to prevent childhood overweight.
Americans consume more than $4 billion worth of St. John?s wort, echinacea, Ginkgo biloba and other herbal products each year in hopes of improving their health, memory and even their sex lives. But are these products effective, or even safe?
Extended bed rest ? often necessary during hospitalization ? leads to a substantial amount of muscle deterioration in older adults, researchers at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) report in the April 25 issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association.
Research led by Dartmouth scientists found that animals fed nutritious, high-quality food end up with much lower concentrations of toxic methylmercury in their tissues.
So much for the adage, ‘All things in moderation.’ Researchers at the University of Calgary have found that people who consume a single, high-fat meal are more prone to suffer the physical consequences of stress than those who eat a low-fat meal.