What's Killing Our Pets

[5CatMom]

Hey, okay!  Mars closing two more plants.

http://petindustrynews.blogspot.com/2009/06/mars-petcare-to-close-two-more-plants.html

[Bonkers]

  Happy Happy Joy Joy!!!!!!!! 

[Hannie]

"The company cited reduced customer demand as the reason for the closures."

Music to my ears........doing a happy dance.......

[5CatMom]

http://www.pfpsa.org/news.html

June 20, 2009: A concerned pet owner provided pfpsa.org with funds and a variety of unrecalled dry cat food samples, which we received in ziplock bags, to have tested through the Washington Animal Disease Diagnostic Lab. Toxicology testing is done through WADDL by the Analytical Sciences Laboratory University of Idaho. We tested 5 samples believed to be three each of Nutro, one Wellness and one Purina. The tests show two of the three Nutro samples contained zinc at levels that would be illegal for sale in the European Union, at 270 ppm and 380 ppm. The third Nutro sample came in at 230 ppm. Purina and Wellness both came in at 190 ppm, which is still 40 ppm higher than the European Union’s recommended maximum of 150 ppm. The huge variation in Nutro results suggests very poor consistency and quality control. From one bag to the next, it’s about like playing Russian Roulette. It’s important to keep in mind pet food is typically the only thing our pets eat, day in and day out, month after month, year after year. Chronic exposure to over supplemented food, especially metals, hasn’t been studied enough to justify over supplementation as an industry standard.

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Note to PFCs:  We WILL test your food.

[5CatMom]

Will get info on what were the specific foods tested and post here.

[Bonkers]

http://www.pfpsa.org/news.html

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Note to PFCs:  We WILL test your food.

 

  They should all be afraid, very afraid.........  

   And a big THANK YOU goes out to the concerned pet owner that provided the funding for the testing to be done.

[lesliek]

This is ridiculous ! Why are we as pet owners having to do this ? TG for Don & pfpsa & the people donating,because apparently its just too hard for the majority of pfc's to do it. If we can check the nutrient levels of the homecooked & raw we feed,why can't they ? They must have access to better nutrient calcuting than we do,so the answer has to be the simply don't care.

[Bonkers]

  WE have to do it because there is no one watching the PFI but us. And I believe it will continue to be this way untill there is legislation or government agency assigned to be a watchdog over the PFI's practices. Or if we are lucky, maybe they will finally start to give a s**t about what their food is doing and has done, to our pets.

[5CatMom]

New complaints (through 6/20) posted at Consumer Affairs site:

http://www.consumeraffairs.com/pets/nutro.html

[5CatMom]

RC,

Thanks for your help.  I just don't have time to keep up with more than one forum, plus the blogs, Twitter, and UK and AU sites.

Posted this morning:

http://www.petforums.co.uk/cat-health-nutrition/42447-nutro-cat-food-recall.html

http://www.cat-world.com.au/forums/index.php?showtopic=97346&st=0&gopid=1273234&#entry1273234

Please post the Nutro story where you can!

[kaffe]

Does anyone here know of any literaure supporting the claim that ALL meats (beef, chicken, turkey, lamb, etc.) that enters a petood manufacturing plant HAS to be denatured?

[Bonkers]

  I believe that according to the USDA any meat that is not fit for human consumption must be denatured.

  http://www.fsis.usda.gov/PDF/FSRE_SS_4_FMIA.pdf

[5CatMom]

PFPSA plans to test another group of pet foods.  The testing will include both cat and dog food.

If you'd like to support the effort, please make a donation at:

http://www.pfpsa.org/join.html

[Bonkers]

 Thank you 5Cat for posting this. It will be very interesting to see the results from the various brands of pet foods that will be tested.

[5CatMom]

Was looking for news about suspected problems with food, and found this at Susan Thixon's site:

http://www.truthaboutpetfood.com/articles/397/1/Pet-Food-Suspicion-Overkill/Page1.html