Menu Foods Crying All The Way To The Bank
Posted by Slobokan @ 22:42 · 311 words · print
The fallout from a tainted pet food scandal hit Menu Foods Income Fund again on Tuesday, when its biggest customer said it would stop buying some of its products in the fourth quarter.
The unnamed customer, whose total purchases made up nearly 10.8 percent of Menu Food's sales volume in 2006, said it would stop buying 'loaf' products from the company beginning October 1, Menu Foods said in a statement.
Oh, boo hoo! I think it's ridiculous they even reported this in the news if they weren't even going to name the customer that is telling Menu Foods to take a flying leap. What's the point? They could have basically said, 'Someone is no longer buying from us. That someone makes large purchases. It's going to hurt our bottom line."
Again, who cares? Their product poisoned
thousands
of dogs and cats across the country and they think we care that one of their biggest customers is leaving? What in the hell took that customer so long to decide to leave? The pets are already sick, or dead, so why leave now?
"Menu Foods is disappointed in the reaction of this customer to the pet food recall. The intentional tainting of product inputs from a third party supplier in China was a fraudulent act that victimized many pet food manufacturers, customers and consumers," Paul Henderson, Menu's president and chief executive, said in the statement.
This guy must have a screw loose. Is he really clueless about why customers may no longer trust their products? Maybe, just maybe, if they adopted new safety measures and actually tested the ingredients they import, people might place some faith in them. Save the sob story for people who actually care about your bottom line more than the pets.
Posted In: Recalls, Vituperate
Posted by Billy wiseman
August 15, 2007 @ 00:19
Analysts say the customer in question is packaged goods giant Procter & Gamble Co :lol: Links will below..also remember how they said they may never know how many were sick or died? I did my homework. :razz: .Washington D.C. (AHN) – According to the latest reports released Monday by one of the nation's largest chains of veterinary hospitals, nearly 39,000 cats and dogs were sickened or killed nationwide following the recent reports of pet food-contamination with an industrial chemical.
The data, which was released by Banfield, The Pet Hospital, was reportedly compiled from records collected by its more than 615 veterinary hospitals. The report concluded that three out of every 10,000 cats and dogs that consumed the pet food contaminated with melamine developed kidney failure.
According to the American Veterinary Medical Association, there are an estimated 60 million dogs and 70 million cats in the United States.
Also, there was a sudden rise in the number of pets visiting the hospital as the hospital chain claims it saw 1 million dogs and cats during the three months when more than 100 brands of now-recalled contaminated pet food were sold.
AP reports that nearly 284 extra cases of kidney failure cases were reported among cats during that period, which is a 30 percent increase.
Hospital experts also added that the high degrees of contamination were found in cats than dogs. Until now, at least six pet food companies have recalled products made with imported Chinese wheat gluten tainted with the chemical. The recall involved about 1 percent of the overall U.S. pet food supply.
The Web Site petconnection.com also added on Monday that it had received reports of 3,598 pet deaths, including both dogs and cats. However, the site has warned that the numbers were unconfirmed.
http://www.reportonbusiness.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20070814.wmenu0814/BNStory/robNews/?page=rss&id=RTGAM.20070814.wmenu0814
and
http://www.allheadlinenews.com/articles/7006996167