Dave, over at Petful brought this item to my attention with an email.  The employees of the Mars plant in Columbus, OH where Pedigree, Cesar, Whiskas, Nutro and IAMS canned foods are produced reported seeing 'millions of roaches' as well as birds, flies, maggots and beetles (taken from Food Safety News).

I think most anyone who's lived in an apartment in any city is aware of the roach problem, but we can - one way or another - take care of it, reduce it or at least try to.  What do we do, though, when it's roaches in our pet food or worse when it's in our people food from the people we, arguably, trust to produce good, clean food.

Gross...and unsettling. My new food, Crave, is a kibble made by Mars.

None of mine eat anything by mars but I know all too well the issues with roaches. In spring (when we have a spring) the little "water" roaches will make a wander through. Might see 3 or 4 total, but the cat always manages to find them and eat them. She's a better bugger than a mouser by far. Roaches carry tape worms and so are definitely no joke if they are potentially getting into our pet food. How many possible animals out there with eating issues that were fed roach contaminated products unsuspectingly have a tape worm that has been giving their owners grief and costing them money trying to figure it out? It would be nice if they would look into it harder. Test some things harder, but it sounds like the plant isn't about cooperation much. Sad.