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Sorry to hear about the recall. Found it humorous that your birds have you feeding them frozen waffles and only a certain brand. Who's running that show anyway?!? My birds have me trained on Honey Grahams. And we call them 'cookies' around here. They go wild when I ask 'who wants a cookie?'. GreycieMae will hang from the cabinet door where the cookies are stored.

Found the FDA SKU list: https://www.fda.gov/media/182860/download?attachment

Are you able to research the SKUs being recalled and compare those to what you have? Hopefully all will be okay. Fingers crossed.

Cooking does kill listeria, also they were not all listeria positive, it was just a chance..so I am feeling better today that they should be ok. It's listeria mono that is the problem, not listeria species as much

Yes, I have already done that. Part of my job at work is being Certified Food Safety, so I get all the latest recalls from the FDA as soon as they come out. I did check the Lot codes & Many boxes I have in my freezer are on the recall list. My parrots were not happy to not have waffles today. I may have to try the Eggo's, they are made from a different company and not part of the recall. although they don't prefer those for some reason...

Sorry to hear about the recall scare but hopefully all are safe and well.

Love this! LOL Well, I went thru all the 8 boxes I have in my freezer ( I buy them when they are on sale) Only 2 boxes have a matching lot code, the rest are not on the 18 page recall list, so I think I'm good. I did buy the Eggo's brand yesterday for today's breakfast. I'll see how well they went over when I go home from work today.. It's funny how well they have us trained!

Hoping your parrots are just fine. An aside, I heard a new mother's tip years ago about giving a piece of frozen waffle to infants who are teething -- apparently it's coldness is soothing to chew/gnaw on. I mean, those are NOT cooked first. And wow, what a LONG list of recalls. Yeeesh. Hope all are safe.

Prayers that your birds are unaffected. Keep you chin up and believe for the best! Scary stuff though.

Thanks for not scolding me as so many FB groups did about feeding them waffles. They DO get a veggie mix & healthy food every day. This is just a breakfast treat with the other foods I mentioned. Getting so beat up elsewhere I appreciate not getting beat up here.

Nice job! What a cool idea.

I think the first thing you should do is wait for the test results to come back so you will know for sure. You may have done nothing wrong and this could happened no mater what. Teflon tape is used by plumbers in the US also. I am not going into the operation of steam boilers or hot water boilers at this time because you don`t know what he died from, but the Teflon tape is unlikely.

Hello guys. I recently joined this forum and posted in the Memorial section after losing a 6 month old Grey. I am awaiting his necropsy results. I did SO much research on Greys before I bought one, months and months of reading articles, lists, forums, books I was super careful. I threw out my smellies, stopped wearing perfume, stopped using air fresheners, even the tumble drier. I knew how dangerous Teflon is to birds, and I thought I knew every appliance Teflon was hidden in, until today. My sweet bird Elwood passed away. I won't go into it again as I've posted in the Memorials, but I have been racking my brain as to what I did wrong. I live in the UK, and it's just turned cold enough to warrant using my heating. My place is heated using radiators. Last year I had a new radiator installed, and my desk is situated right next to this radiator. Elwood was out, he'd had breakfast, he flew to me, played, had headrubs then died. No warning. It was very fast and I am devastated. The radiator had been on prior to him being out, so it was in the cooldown stage. At 1st I wondered if radiators were covered in a paint that could be toxic to birds, but after some research I've found they're powder coated, much like bird cages. Then I found out after lots of searching, that plumbers primarily use PTFE Tape (aka Teflon Tape) on valves, pipes, and connectors. I understand Teflon is only apparently a danger when it's heated to a very high level, OR if it's damaged in any way but as it's invisible and impossible for us to detect, how will I ever know? Has anyone else had any experience with this? Could this tape be to blame? They use the tape much like a putty, to seal pipes. Any insight on this would be appreciated, thanks.

So today was another mistake, as my wife Brenda says, when she took Caesar to his play area ( garden size tub) which already held the remains of many brown paper bags. Instead of allowing Caesar to step down on the side of the tub or allowing him to directly step into the tub, Brenda was first going to move to the side some of the paper rubble so Caesar could have his new paper bag on the bottom of the tub. As Brenda says it was her mistake to touch his paper rubble (his nest). Caesar immediately bit Brenda on the base of the thumb bringing blood. She immediately shouted "NO, bite, NO, hurt Brenda" several times and took him to his sleeping cage in his private room and covered him up repeating again"NO, bite, NO, hurt Brenda"several times. Caesar is very social and wants to be with people. After about 10 minutes, Brenda went to Caesar, uncovered his cage and showed him her thumb saying Caesar hurt Brenda, NO, bite Brenda. Current plan is to clean up the garden tub playground and not return Caesar to it for a period of time. Your thoughts, experiences and suggestions are welcome.

Feeling sad & concerned. I have 2 greys & an amazon; I give them toasted frozen waffles cut into bit size pieces for breakfast along with some toast every morning in their cages before I go to work. I just saw the waffle recall for frozen waffles including the brand I use. It can take up to 70 days before you see symptoms, I am worried... I hope they don't have any issues from this, but I won't know for over 3 months...this definitely worries me. I buy them when they go on sale & stock up, it is a daily staple for them...:/