Possible Further Recalls: Keep Your Proof Of Purchase!!!

Our lives are busy & crazy enough.....and then this madness!

Easy, then, to overlook the basics: we MUST protect ourselves...

God forbid, but if it happens that your animal becomes ill, you will need to know and be able to prove exactly what he/she has been eating.

Receipts need to be retained - develop a system: envelope/file/whatever
Consider keeping all packaging* - lot numbers/labels are critical info

*I've started washing out the wet food cans, throwing them in a bag under the sink - each week, new bag, with the old one (getting labelled for dates) going to the basement and into a large garbage bag.

We have a lot on our plates but.........

I've started keeping a log of what food I buy, where and when I buy it, the use by date, the product code, when I feed it to the cats, and who ate it. It takes up less room than keeping the actual cans.

It might be a bit easier to just rip the labels off the cans. Depending on the brand, some of those cans are recyclable, so I'd prefer to turn in the cans then keep them somewhere.

Originally Posted by strange_wings

It might be a bit easier to just rip the labels off the cans. Depending on the brand, some of those cans are recyclable, so I'd prefer to turn in the cans then keep them somewhere.

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Unfortunately, not all of the cans have labels. And most of the product codes are on the bottom of the can. So it seems as though the only two options are to keep the entire can or write the info down. I guess you could remove labels of those that have them and write the info inside the label.

i've started collecting my receipts in a folder. i dug out all of my receipts that go to about when the recall started. most of the stuff i bought with wheat gluten in it before then, i have already returned. but i have my receipts from the returns too.

i do keep reciepts but not willing to do that other stuff I have too much to do

I buy the girls' Purina NF canned by the case. I suppose I should start saving the lot information from the bottom of the cardboard boxes. Sigh.

i don't know if saving all this stuff is REALLY going to make a hill of beans difference. I mean suing corporations such as this could take YEARS and I'd already be worrying about my pet. I'll think about keeping a log but, it seems like a lot of worrying when I already take meds for this. I'd probably think i have to keep a log of everything I ate....

If you have a digital camera, you could take a pic of the codes and labels of the cans you have bought or fed- if you have one that can time/date stamp your pics, that would make it really easy . Or you could set all the cans you bought up on a newspaper (with the date showing, just in case ) and keep one label, and be done for the batch. Just a thought...

Originally Posted by Renovia

i don't know if saving all this stuff is REALLY going to make a hill of beans difference. I mean suing corporations such as this could take YEARS and I'd already be worrying about my pet. I'll think about keeping a log but, it seems like a lot of worrying when I already take meds for this. I'd probably think i have to keep a log of everything I ate....

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For me it's not about suing a company, it's about what I fed to my cats and when I fed it to them. When the first Menu recall came out, I knew I had given them at least one package of the same brand that was recalled, but I had no way of knowing if it fell within the recall dates and codes. So now I'm keeping track of the dates and codes so that if something I'm feeding them God forbid gets recalled, I'll know.

I have anxiety disorder, and keeping a log causes me to have LESS worry than if I didn't keep it. Surprising, I don't give a rip about the stuff I eat .. but my cats don't have a choice what they eat, since I'm the one doing the choosing.