Pet Food Recall

The pet food recall has been news for many weeks now and we are still all left wondering what happened, how it could have happened and if it will happen again.

As someone who has run a manufacturing operation (albeit not in the pet food industry) I know full well that standard Good Manufacturing Procedures should call for the quality control of incoming raw materials and of completed batches of product. So what happened here?

Obviously nothing. These problems were not caught when the raw materials arrived at the manufacturer, nor after the batches had been processed. Is there any QC at all in the pet food business? One certainly has to wonder.

And what of the fact that so many major brands were effected. Are they all from one huge batch with a few extra ingredients thrown in too differentiate brands? Could they possibly have QC'd all of these batches and missed the problem?

Does anyone out there have any inside information as to what actually happened?

If so, please let me know.