Pet Food Recall - What Actually Happened

Posted by Clare Bristow

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Back in March Menu Foods was the first company to recall its pet food products, and shortly afterwards many other companies followed suit.

Since March the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) in the US has received over 17,000 complaints from people whose pets suffered kidney problems or died after eating pet food that was on the recall list.

After looking at 60 million containers of recalled pet food, veterinarians have identified two chemicals that they believe were responsible for the kidney disease and deaths.

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The Fruit and Veggies Love Link

Posted by Clare Bristow

spaniel Fruits and vegetables are good for us and our dogs. However, we have to be careful because some fruits and veggies are toxic to dogs.

Johann the dog has put together this â€œFruits and Veggies Link Love Projectâ€, so we can all have a great list of what we can give our dogs to eat!

Join in but please remember to be responsible - do your research first, and make sure that what you add to the list is safe for our dogs.

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Dog Food Ingredients Revealed - new study reveals the rubbish we are giving to our dogs

Posted by Clare Bristow

dog-food The Consumer Wellness Center, a non-profit organization in the US, has published a comprehensive report on the nutritional quality of 570 pet food ingredients.

The ingredients of 448 popular pet foods sold in the US were analyzed for nutritional quality and frequency of use. The report analyses the data in a number of ways, but I think the two most important lists are:

pet food ingredients by rating - 5 stars down to 1 star where 5 stars are given to the best quality ingredients;
worst pet food ingredients - all the one star ingredients are listed, these are low quality and hazardous ingredients.

This report gives us the information we need to take control over what we are feeding our dogs - please use it to protect the health of your dog.

This is what I'll be doing today:

Listing the ingredients in the food I currently give to Zoe and Fritz;
Looking at the rating given to each ingredient; and
Consider changing foods if the first five listed ingredients (these usually make up the bulk of the product) do not get a high rating.

I'll let you know what I find out.

Here is a link to the report Pet Food Ingredients Revealed!, which was compiled by pet food formulator Dr. Lisa Newman and consumer health advocate Mike Adams.

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