{"id":6765,"date":"2021-05-26T10:40:38","date_gmt":"2021-05-26T14:40:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ohiovma.org\/news\/?p=6765"},"modified":"2021-05-26T10:45:04","modified_gmt":"2021-05-26T14:45:04","slug":"natural-balance-recalls-dry-cat-food-for-possible-salmonella-contamination","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ohiovma.org\/news\/?p=6765","title":{"rendered":"Natural Balance recalls dry cat food for possible Salmonella contamination"},"content":{"rendered":"<body>\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignright size-large is-resized\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.ohiovma.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/NaturalBalanceCatFood-0521.jpg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.ohiovma.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/NaturalBalanceCatFood-0521.jpg?resize=156%2C199&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-6767\" width=\"156\" height=\"199\" loading=\"lazy\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.ohiovma.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/NaturalBalanceCatFood-0521.jpg?resize=802%2C1024&amp;ssl=1 802w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.ohiovma.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/NaturalBalanceCatFood-0521.jpg?resize=235%2C300&amp;ssl=1 235w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.ohiovma.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/NaturalBalanceCatFood-0521.jpg?resize=768%2C981&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.ohiovma.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/NaturalBalanceCatFood-0521.jpg?resize=560%2C715&amp;ssl=1 560w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.ohiovma.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/NaturalBalanceCatFood-0521.jpg?w=1020&amp;ssl=1 1020w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 156px) 100vw, 156px\" \/><\/a><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Natural Balance Pet Foods, Inc. of San Diego, Calif., is voluntarily recalling the cat food products listed below due to possible contamination with\u00a0<em>Salmonella<\/em>. This was discovered from a routine state surveillance sample from the Minnesota Department of Agriculture.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Products were distributed nationwide in the U.S. via both retail and online distribution. No customer complaints or illnesses have been reported to date, and no other Natural Balance Pet Foods, Inc. products are impacted by this recall.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-table\"><table><thead><tr><th scope=\"col\"><strong>Product Name<\/strong><\/th><th scope=\"col\"><strong>Retail UPC Code<\/strong><\/th><th scope=\"col\"><strong>Lot Code<\/strong><\/th><th scope=\"col\"><strong>Best -by Date<\/strong><\/th><\/tr><\/thead><tbody><tr><td><em>5 LB Bag, Natural Balance L.I.D. Limited Ingredient Diets Green Pea &amp; Chicken Formula Dry Cat Food<\/em><\/td><td>2363300233<\/td><td>1008080 06:42N811202:20<\/td><td>10-Mar-2022<\/td><\/tr><tr><td><em>10 LB Bag, Natural Balance L.I.D. Limited Ingredient Diets Green Pea &amp; Chicken Formula Dry Cat Food<\/em><\/td><td>2363300235<\/td><td>1008080 06:42N811202:20<\/td><td>10-Mar-2022<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>If pet owners have matching products in their possession, they should stop feeding it to their cats and dispose of it immediately or return it to their retailer for a refund. Questions can be directed to 1-833-558-0908, Monday through Friday, 8 a.m. \u2013 5 p.m. PST or submitted online at <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"http:\/\/www.naturalbalanceinc.com\/contact-us\" target=\"_blank\"><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.naturalbalanceinc.com\/contact-us\">www.naturalbalanceinc.com\/contact-us<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>\u2014Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fda.gov\/safety\/recalls-market-withdrawals-safety-alerts\/natural-balance-pet-foods-inc-voluntarily-recalls-lid-green-pea-chicken-dry-cat-formula-possible?utm_medium=email&amp;utm_source=govdelivery\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">FDA<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<\/body>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The green pea and chicken variety of its limited ingredient product line has been withdrawn from store shelves.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6769,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,8],"tags":[71,292,19,20],"class_list":["post-6765","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-public","category-recalls","tag-cat-food","tag-natural-balance","tag-recall","tag-salmonella"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.ohiovma.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/WordPress-Featured-Images-1.png?fit=640%2C320&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-11-14 02:47:57","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category"},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ohiovma.org\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6765"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ohiovma.org\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ohiovma.org\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ohiovma.org\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ohiovma.org\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6765"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.ohiovma.org\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6765\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6773,"href":"https:\/\/www.ohiovma.org\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6765\/revisions\/6773"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ohiovma.org\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/6769"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ohiovma.org\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6765"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ohiovma.org\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6765"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ohiovma.org\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6765"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}