Safe Peanut Butter Treats for Pups
Posted on January 20, 2009 by
Of course, when I heard about the peanut butter recalls, before I did a mental review of the food we’d been eating, I thought about the two new packages of peanut butter flavor dog treats I’d recently purchased. Now, I don’t even know if salmonella can be an issue for dogs, but I didn’t want to take any chances.
Luckily, the products I purchased came from wonderful companies who purchase quality ingredients and take the time to respond to customer questions.
Yesterday, I e-mailed Zukes and Newmans Own Organics and both responded within the hour.
From Zukes:
I know that the news on peanut butter has been pretty disturbing lately-but fear not, I’m here to assure you that Zuke’s is 100% Salmonella free!
All of us at Zuke’s see our pets for what they are-family. We would never, ever do anything to hurt family members, no matter who they belong to. Our peanut butter comes from a local company that has not been involved with any of the recent recalls or salmonella outbreaks.
Please rest assured that all Zuke’s products containing peanut butter are safe.
From Newman’s Own Organics:
Newman’s Own Organics has contacted all of our manufacturers and suppliers of our products that contain peanut butter ingredients. These products are:
Peanut Butter Newman O’s
Milk Chocolate Peanut Butter Cups
Dark Chocolate Peanut Butter Cups
Peanut Butter Dog TreatsEach of our peanut butter ingredient suppliers have verified in writing confirming that they are not part of the FDA recall. Their protocol of testing has confirmed no salmonella contamination.
Each of our manufacturers has also confirmed that they have maintained their testing protocol and have found no salmonella contamination.
We are confident that you can continue to use these products.
By the way, I haven’t mentioned Zukes before, because I just decided to give them a try. The training treats are the perfect size for training (and bribing) our new pup, and I love that they are wheat and corn free, and made in the USA.
Dogs can get salmonella and can pass ti along to their humans as well, so it’s good they checked out their sources. We are thinking about switching our one dog to Newman’s because of all your praise.
Americans are much more into peanut butter than us Brits. There was a bit of a hooha about it over here a while back and because I don’t eat it I never bothered to look into it. But there was some concern (and this doesn’t relate to dogs – so sorry perhaps this is not the right post!!) that introducing peanuts too early (ie in paste form or via breastmilk because the mother ate a lot or because there are trace elements in so many other foods) was making children more likely to have a peanut allegy. I have no idea if there was any convincing research.
I don’t think my children have ever had peanut butter – but only because I would never think to buy it.
But there could be some truth in it maybe? It is easy to eat a lot of peanut butter whereas it’s hard to eat loads of peanuts every day!
I had no idea that dogs liked peanut flavour!
Thanks for this post. I just bought some of the Newman’s Own Peanut Butter Dog Treats at Christmas for our dog. I’d been holding off on giving him any since I heard about the peanut butter scare because I hadn’t had time to do the research. I’m glad to know they’re okay.
Bacci loves Zukes but isnt big on peanut butter. I might try out that Zukes flave.