FDA posted Mars Petcare US, Inc.’s voluntary recall of two lots of PEDIGREE Can High Protein Chopped Chicken & Duck Flavor Wet Dog Food because product may contain metal and plastic foreign material. The affected lots are 613C3KKCFC and 613C1KKCFC.
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This is a practical recall for dog owners because the concern is physical injury, not just stomach upset. If you have PEDIGREE Can High Protein Chopped Chicken & Duck Flavor 13.2 oz cans, compare the lot codes with the FDA notice and stop feeding affected product. If your dog already ate it, call your veterinarian if you notice choking, drooling, vomiting, belly pain, refusal to eat, blood in stool, or unusual discomfort. Do not try to induce vomiting unless a veterinarian or poison-control professional tells you to do so.
Useful source for a timely veterinary news/research update and audience-specific teaching context.For clinic teams, the useful workflow is product identification first, patient status second. Ask whether the product matches the recalled flavor and lot codes, how much was eaten, when it was eaten, and whether the dog has choking, oral pain, vomiting, abdominal pain, anorexia, melena, or lethargy. Stable exposure-only calls can receive stop-feeding and monitoring instructions approved by the veterinarian. Symptomatic dogs should be escalated because sharp foreign material raises concern for oral trauma, esophageal injury, or GI obstruction.
Useful source for a timely veterinary news/research update and audience-specific teaching context.For pre-vet readers, this recall is a useful distinction: the hazard is mechanical injury from metal or plastic, not a dose-dependent chemical exposure. That changes the clinical reasoning. Vomiting after ingestion could be irritation, obstruction, pain, or unrelated GI disease, while oral bleeding or dysphagia shifts suspicion toward mouth or esophageal trauma. The case also shows why recall medicine needs exact product identification before risk assessment.
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