According to Bill Chappell in “Dog Food Company Recalls Products That May Contain Pentobarbital,” he claims that the pet food producer Evanger had to recall its Hunk of Beef Au Jus product after a family’s pug had died from consuming. Evanger feared that the food contained the euthanasia drug pentobarbital. Several of the family’s other pugs consumed the contaminated food and became ill. Pentobarbital is a drug that can make the animal who ingests feel very sick and in rare cases can be the cause of the animal’s death. Evanger’s meat suppliers are USDA approved, but this was their first recall in several decades. The company has since cut ties with the meat supplier that contaminated the product with pentobarbital. There is an ongoing investigation
