![]() The supplier that produced the affected products has told us that it has already instituted special screening procedures. Petco tested other stainless steel pet products it carries from other suppliers and found no similar issues. The Illinois state government did its own testing and issued a news release stating that “a person would have to hold one of the bowls against their chest for roughly six and a half days to receive a dose of radiation equivalent to a single chest X-ray,” and that “these bowls do not pose an immediate health risk.” Petco has notified the Nuclear Regulatory Commission and a number of state governments, and is in the process of notifying other appropriate states as we continue to collect and verify information. We are working to contact those customers to inform them of the situation and to retrieve those particular bowls. We also confirmed that very few affected items were actually sold to consumers. We have confirmed that the vast majority of all of the affected products remain at Petco distribution centers, are quarantined outside and never reached our stores. Out of concern that products from the second container reached our stores, we removed from our store shelves and from our website all products from the supplier that produced the bowls. Upon learning of this issue following the delivery of the affected products to our distribution centers, we promptly retained experts to examine the potentially affected products, and those experts determined that the SKUs examined were safe for handling. The second container had previously cleared Customs and reached Petco’s distribution network. That container was held at the port and never reached Petco. ![]() ![]() The issue was discovered by Customs and Border Protection agents during a routine import screening of one of the containers. We’ve also determined that the affected products pose no health risk, and were and are safe to be handled by our associates. To our knowledge, the affected products were limited to two cargo containers that entered the United States in late May and early June. All of the expert testing conducted on these products to date indicates that there is no health risk to the public, to our associates or to pets. The Cobalt-60 levels in the affected products are far below State and Federal regulatory limits. The affected products were found to emit low levels of radiation. We don’t know for certain how it got into our product, but we believe it came from scrap metal that had some Cobalt-60 accidentally mixed in. ![]() Cobalt-60 is a radioactive material commonly used in industrial gauging equipment and other uses. Petco has determined that one of its foreign suppliers used stainless steel mistakenly containing small quantities of Cobalt-60 when fabricating certain orders of certain SKUs/models of stainless steel pet food bowls. The following company statement provides full details: Petco has announced a voluntary recall of certain stainless steel pet food bowls due to contamination with radioactive material. ![]()
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