I received this email from another forum I frequent and wanted to pass this on. My goodness, I feed my 6 dogs Canidae mixed w/ Embark. I guess they're getting straight Embark today until I can do more research.
DEADLY PAINKILLER IN DOG FOOD
by Robert Jay Russell, Ph.D., Coton de Tulear Club of America President
CotonNews@aol. com
www.CotonClub. com
September 9th, 2007. In a breaking story, both Itchmo.com and
ConsumerAffairs. com have reported that a private individual sent samples of dog food to a
private laboratory for analysis and the sample containing Canidae (dry food)
tested positive for Acetaminophen, an analgesic which can prove fatal to pets.
This is not the first time this year that pet food has been found
contaminated with Acetaminophen; pets have died as a result. The pain killer is extremely
toxic to cats who lack any enzyme to break down the compound. It is
hepatotoxic in cats, dogs and people.
Expertox, the private, Texas-based laboratory that found Acetaminophen in Pet
Pride cat food earlier and now Canidae dog food has tested between 100-150
samples for toxins and found Acetaminophen in five of those samples. Expertox
has not released the names of all the companies whose food tested positive,
however.
Canidae, located in California, vigorously disputes the findings and claims
that it imports no ingredients from China. Whether that is true remains to be
seen, since I have not found any commercial pet food that could be prepared
without at least some Chinese ingredients. For example, neither taurine,
essential for the prevention of cardiomyopathy in cats and probably dogs as well is
100% sourced from China (no place else makes it anymore!). Similarly, most human
and pet vitamins are exclusively Chinese produced.
PLEASE SEE THE LINK FOR THE REMAINDER OF THE ARTICLE.
THIS POST HAS BEEN EDITED BY ADMIN DUE TO COPYRIGHT INFRINGEMENT
DEADLY PAINKILLER IN DOG FOOD
by Robert Jay Russell, Ph.D., Coton de Tulear Club of America President
CotonNews@aol. com
www.CotonClub. com
September 9th, 2007. In a breaking story, both Itchmo.com and
ConsumerAffairs. com have reported that a private individual sent samples of dog food to a
private laboratory for analysis and the sample containing Canidae (dry food)
tested positive for Acetaminophen, an analgesic which can prove fatal to pets.
This is not the first time this year that pet food has been found
contaminated with Acetaminophen; pets have died as a result. The pain killer is extremely
toxic to cats who lack any enzyme to break down the compound. It is
hepatotoxic in cats, dogs and people.
Expertox, the private, Texas-based laboratory that found Acetaminophen in Pet
Pride cat food earlier and now Canidae dog food has tested between 100-150
samples for toxins and found Acetaminophen in five of those samples. Expertox
has not released the names of all the companies whose food tested positive,
however.
Canidae, located in California, vigorously disputes the findings and claims
that it imports no ingredients from China. Whether that is true remains to be
seen, since I have not found any commercial pet food that could be prepared
without at least some Chinese ingredients. For example, neither taurine,
essential for the prevention of cardiomyopathy in cats and probably dogs as well is
100% sourced from China (no place else makes it anymore!). Similarly, most human
and pet vitamins are exclusively Chinese produced.
PLEASE SEE THE LINK FOR THE REMAINDER OF THE ARTICLE.
THIS POST HAS BEEN EDITED BY ADMIN DUE TO COPYRIGHT INFRINGEMENT