Woman buys over $1,000 worth of tainted pet food after recall -- on purpose.

[LiberalHeart]

Isn't it kind of disturbing that she was able to find tainted food at Wal-Mart AFTER the recall was well-known to retailers and the public?

http://newsgrinder.blogspot.com/2007/03/south-carolina-woman-buys-over-1000.html

[Nikki Stone1]

1. You gotta be kidding

Somebody dropped the ball

[LiberalHeart]

2. And that's just one person's experience...imagine if we multiply this out to all stores...

It makes me want to go browsing at the local stores. In fact, I think I will.

[Lone_Star_Dem]

3. I was told some grocery chains also didn't remove the full product list

Not until they were prompted to by consumers.

I admit I called local grocery when the list came out, but they were on top of it and had already pulled it from the shelves.

[LiberalHeart]

4. Back when the tainted spinach recall was going on ...

I found it in local stores and tried to get grocery managers to remove it, but was told they had to wait for an order from corp. headquarters. It's crazy.

[slampoet]

13. I found Bugs in a store brand of Stop & Shop pasta. The bugs were pressed in at the factory.

Definitely happened at the source and not in transit.


We went back three days later and the same store was still selling it.

[Der Blaue Engel]

5. Wait...she checked all of the batch codes?

From the article, it doesn't sound like she did, just that she bought up all of the brands mentioned in the recall. There would be absolutely no reason to remove the product from the shelves if it wasn't part of the recalled batch.

My cats eat the IAMS pouches, and I checked the batch numbers to make sure they weren't in the recall. I didn't march to the store and demand that they destroy every pouch of IAMS ever made. This story makes no sense to me.

[LiberalHeart]

7. The batch codes are growing, per a report I heard last night.

I think it was on Nightline, but not sure because I had a lot of news on last night.

[Der Blaue Engel]

11. IAMS is listing the same batch numbers

It's a small group, and they're definitely not recalling the entire product line, so I expect most stores will still carry it.

[napi21]

6. Stupid Walmart does it again! My husband works for a large

supermarket chain, and THEY pulled that pet food from their shelves 2 days before that story hit the newspapers! I never shop at WM, and THIS is just one more reason why nobody should!

[LiberalHeart]

8. So stores knew about it before the people who owned it and were feeding it to pets????

[napi21]

14. I have to believe so. I printed off the list of all the different foods

to show my husband before he went to work on the day I heard about this recall, and his response to me was "OH, so THAT'S why they pulled all that pet food off the shelves!" Hubby works in the meat dept. so he just noticed the product being removed from the shelves and wouldn't have been told any additional info. (Of course he's not a curiosity nut like I am, so he didn't ask either!)

I worked in the home office of a large retailer a long time ago, and I can tell you what usually happens is the MFG. contacts the buyer at each retailer they sell to. They explain the problem and they are recommending a recall, and they usually give instructions toeachon what paperwork they need so they can give the retailer credit for the bad product. The buyer at each retailer contacts the sales dept. with the info, and the sales sdept. notifies each store. USUALLY, at the same time, the retailers are notified, the media is as well, but what happens inside the media, I have no idea.

[robinlynne]

9. self deleted

[Beaverhausen]

10. She's doing it for a good reason - see below

from here http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070322/ap_on_fe_st/pet_food_buyer;_ylt=AszG6DnDk_uwpYTIw6cWGDGs0NUE

Trask plans to throw the food away so no animals eat it. She figures she spent more than $1,000.

Some of the 60 million cans and pouches of food have been blamed for kidney failure in scores of animals and killed at least 16 pets.

Not all the food Trask bought was included in the recall.

Trask also took out classified ads in at least two local newspapers, listing all off the recall pet food brands.

"A lot of people don't know about the recall," Trask said. "I don't know what else to do."

[WernhamHogg]

12. I really admire what this woman did

Especially the ads she took out in the newspaper (not everyone has access to the internet). I wouldn't be surprised to find out that she saved the lives of more than a few animals, not to mention saving some pet owners a whole lot of grief and high vet bills as well.