First announced on 15th January, dog owners are being warned of a product recall on certain types of dog food due to concerns about Vitamin D poisoning.
Although there is nothing prominent on the Mars Petcare UK website, you can find more details on the UK Pedigree website. They are doing a precautionary recall of a limited number of Pedigree® Complete Dry Chicken and Vegetables, Pedigree® Mixer & Chappie® products containing levels of Vitamin D which could prove harmful to your pet if consumed over several weeks.
Owners who have purchased the products are being advised to immediately stop feeding it to their dogs and contact the consumer care team.
The details of the products being recalled are:
CHAPPIE Complete Chicken & Wholegrain Dry Dog Food
PEDIGREE Mixer Adult Dry Dog Original
PEDIGREE Mixer Adult Dry Dog Food Original
PEDIGREE Mixer Adult Dry Dog Food Original
PEDIGREE Adult Complete Dry Dog Food with Chicken & Vegetables
PEDIGREE Adult Complete Dry Dog Food with Chicken & Vegetables
Alice Moore, a Dorset veterinary surgeon at Castle Veterinary Clinic, Dorchester and Weymouth. said: “Dogs are very sensitive to some compounds of vitamin D and accidental ingestion of vitamin D tablets can cause significant toxicity.
Signs include drinking a lot, vomiting, diarrhoea, depression and lethargy. In severe cases, heart problems, kidney failure and vomiting blood can occur, and dogs have lost their lives after accidental ingestion of vitamin D tablets.”
Pedigree has advised owners to seek advice from a vet if you have fed this product to your pet and they are showing signs of illness. Symptoms to look out for include excessive drinking and urination.
A spokesman for Pedigree said: “These products do not meet our high quality and safety standards, so we are taking this proactive step to retrieve the listed products. We ask consumers who have purchased these specific, affected products to immediately cease feeding it to their pet and contact our consumer care team for more information.”
You can contact Mars Petcare Customer Service by telephone: 0800 013 3131 and online to UK. Pedigree HERE.
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