I am intimately familiar with Menu Foods. I was the Union Representative of the workers at that plant. I must tell you that I think there is an important distinction that must be made and understood. The villan in this is the Chinese wheat, which was treated with the illegal rodenticide. I have seen the quality control procedures in this company's Pennsauken, NJ plant. They take it very serious. I am reminded of the time that I had to represent sanitation worker in the plant who let some of his chemicals get into an area that might have contaminated the food. The company's position was that somebody could lose their pet. They take that very seriously, at least that was my impression. I am no apologist for management, but I think they got blindsided. This is not something that would show up in normal testing.

As to them knowing about it for a month before making it public, I can't understand that. I suspect someone will pay a dear price for that. But they are not callous about animals, in fact they take the health of their clients animals very seriously. When it is all said and done, my guess is some mid level person found out about it and didn't report it to management until it became apparent what was going on.

Mick