There is an article in today's USA Today newspaper about the class action lawsuit over the melamine-tainted pet food last year.
The article states: "Almost 6,000 claims have been filed in a class-action settlement stemming from last year's massive pet-food recall.
Menu Foods, other pet-food makers and retailers in May agreed to set up a $24 million cash fund to compensate pet owners whose cats and dogs became sick or died after eating food that had a contaminated ingredient from China.
The filing period for claims began May 30 and will run until Nov. 24.
"I expect that number (of claims) will go up a lot. There's quite a bit of time to go," says attorney Sherrie Savett of plaintiffs' law firm Berger & Montague.
The Food and Drug Administration never identified how many pets were affected, but it received more than 17,000 complaints."
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