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<P><BR><BR>Keep Your Clear Of The Next Pet Food Recall<BR>By Susan Thixton
<BR>Last year turned out to be the worst in history for pet food recalls. While
there is no way to be 100% certain that a pet food is not tainted or will
be<BR>recalled, there are some red flags to look for when selecting your dog's
or cat's food. Avoiding these common pet food ingredients can greatly
improve<BR>your odds in purchasing a healthy, safe pet food. <BR>Judging the
safety or the nutritional value of a pet food starts by ignoring the
advertising, the price of the pet food, and ignoring the front of the
bag.<BR>The real signs to the safety of a dog food or cat food lie on the back
or side of the bag or can in the 'Ingredient Listing'. Regardless of what
marketing<BR>terms ('choice', 'premium', and so on) are on the front of the bag
or can of pet food, a pet owner cannot determine the quality or how safe the
food is<BR>unless they look at the ingredients. <BR>With dry foods there can be
90 different ingredients (or more), with canned foods there can be 50 or more
different ingredients. But don't panic...you don't<BR>have to understand
hundreds of different pet food ingredients! You just need to be aware of a few
key ingredients.<WBR>..pet food ingredients that you do NOT<BR>want to see in a
dog food or cat food (or treats). <BR>'Wheat Gluten', 'Corn Gluten', or 'Rice
Gluten'. These three ingredients were the bad boy pet food ingredients of 2007.
Tainted glutens were found to be<BR>the cause of thousands of dogs and cats
becoming ill and dying. It is not that glutens themselves are toxic to pets -
these ingredients have been used<BR>in pet foods for years. <BR>The problem was
the source or manufacturer of the glutens - imported from countries with far
less quality standards than in the US. (The majority of glutens<BR>used in the
US pet foods are from imported sources.) These imported glutens contained added
chemicals that caused crystals to form in the kidneys of dogs<BR>and cats.
<BR>Not only is it important to avoid dog foods and cat foods (and dog and cat
treats) that contain glutens because of the possibility of dangerous added
chemicals,<BR>it is important because they add no real quality nutrition to the
food. Glutens are used as a thickener AND as a source of protein in pet food.
Adult maintenance<BR>dog foods must provide a minimum of 18% protein, adult
maintenance cat foods must provide a minimum of 26% protein. <BR>If the meat
source of the pet food does not provide enough protein, glutens are often added
to boost the protein level of the pet food. The best nutrition<BR>for your pet
comes from a meat protein pet food not from a gluten protein. Avoid dog foods
and cat foods (and treats) that contain 'corn gluten', 'wheat<BR>gluten', or
'soy gluten'. <BR>'By Products'. By-products have never been the cause of a pet
food recall, but they are definitely ingredients you want to avoid feeding your
pet. To give<BR>you an understanding of by-products, I'd like to compare this
pet food ingredient to pies - you know, the dessert! How many different types of
pies you<BR>can think of? There are apple pies, cherry pies, chocolate pies,
meringue pies, meat pies, mud pies, pie in math, cow pies (yuck!) - I think you
get my<BR>point. Now imagine if you purchased yourself a prepared ravioli dinner
at the grocery and you looked at the ingredients and you see 'pie' listed as
the<BR>first ingredient in your dinner. <BR>Hmmm, pie in ravioli - what kind of
pie? You wouldn't know if it was apple pie or mud pie or even cow pie. All you
would know is that your dinner contained<BR>'pie'. Considering 'pie' could be
anything from apple pie to cow pie - my guess is that you wouldn't be having
ravioli for dinner. Same thing with by-products<BR>in pet food. <BR>AAFCO
(American Association of Feed Control Officials, the organization responsible
for all animal feed manufacturing rules and regulations) defines
by-products<BR>as "meat by-products is the non-rendered, clean parts, other than
meat, derived from slaughtered mammals. It includes, but is not limited to,
lungs, spleen,<BR>kidneys, brain, livers, blood, bone, partially defatted low
temperature fatty tissue, and stomachs and intestines freed of their contents.
It does not<BR>include hair, horns, teeth, and hoofs. It shall be suitable for
use in animal food. If it bears name descriptive of its kind, it must correspond
thereto." <BR>So, with respect to pet food, a by-product is a catch-all
ingredient name. All left over meat materials from the human food industry are
clumped into one<BR>ingredient name - by-product. There is NO certainty of what
you are feeding - one batch of pet food might be more intestine by-products
while the next<BR>batch of pet food might be more liver or bone by-products.
<BR>There is NO way of knowing what is actually contained in the pet food
ingredient by-product (the pet food manufacturers themselves couldn't tell you
exactly).<BR>Avoid dog foods and cat foods (and treats) that contain By-products
of any kind...Chicken By-Products, Beef By-Products, Chicken By-Product Meal,
Beef<BR>By-Product Meal, and so forth. <BR>'Meat Meal', 'Meat and Bone Meal', or
'Animal Digest'. These three ingredients are similar to by-products. AAFCO
defines Meat and Bone Meal as "the rendered<BR>product from mammal tissues,
including bone, exclusive of any added blood, hair, hoof, horn, hide trimmings,
manure, stomach and rumen contents, except<BR>in such amounts as may occur
unavoidably to good processing practices." <BR>Again, a catch all ingredient
name for the left-over parts of animals used for human food. No consistency to
what is contained in these ingredients (all<BR>three of these pet food
ingredient definitions are similar) - no way of knowing what is actually in your
pet's food. Avoid dog foods, cat foods, and dog<BR>and cat treats that contain
'meat meal', 'meat and bone meal', or 'animal digest'. <BR>'Animal Fat'. In 2002
the FDA tested many different brands of dog food (cat food was not tested) for
the presence of the drug pentobarbital. Many brands<BR>of dog food tested
positive to contain the drug. Pentobarbital is the drug used to euthanize dogs,
cats, cattle, and horses. <BR>How can the drug that is used to euthanize animals
be found in pet food? The answer - euthanized animals are rendered (cooked) and
the end ingredients are<BR>placed in pet food. It has long been rumored that
euthanized dogs and cats (from animal shelters and veterinarian offices) is the
major source of the pentobarbital<BR>in pet food. However no one has been able
to prove or disprove this rumor to date. The FDA/CVM (Center for Veterinary
Management) developed testing methods<BR>on two separate occasions to determine
the species source of the drug. No results have ever been determined. <BR>The
pet food manufacturers adamantly deny they use rendered dogs or cats - but NO
clinical evidence has ever been released to confirm the pentobarbital<BR>is from
euthanized cattle and horses in pet food as they claim. <BR>However, the one
thing the FDA/CVM has determined through their testing is the pet food
ingredient 'animal fat' is the most common ingredient to
contain<BR>pentobarbital. In other words, if you are feeding a dog food or cat
food (or treats) with the ingredient 'animal fat' in the ingredient listing -
you are<BR>(more than likely) feeding your pet euthanized animals. <BR>Not every
batch of pet food tested that contained the ingredient 'animal fat' has proved
to contain pentobarbital - but why would any pet owner want to<BR>take the
chance? Avoid dog foods, cat foods, and dog and cat treats that contain the
ingredient 'animal fat'. <BR>'BHA', 'BHT', 'TBHQ', and 'Ethoxyquin'<WBR>. These
pet food ingredients are chemical preservatives and you might have to look
through the entire ingredient list<BR>to find them. It is worth the look because
there is plenty of clinical evidence to associate all four of these chemical
preservatives with cancer and tumors<BR>(simply do a Google search on any one of
these chemicals). <BR>All four of these chemical preservatives are rarely used
to preserve human food and if so, are used in quantities far less than what is
allowed in pet food.<BR>Avoid any dog food, cat food, or dog and cat treat that
contains 'BHA', 'BHT', 'TBHQ', and 'Ethoxyquin' on the label. <BR>'Corn',
'Wheat', 'Soy'. While there is no scientific evidence that proves these
ingredients are dangerous to pets - they are potentially dangerous
ingredients<BR>associated with recalls in the past (1995, 1999, and 2005).
<BR>These grains are highly prone to a deadly mold (aflatoxin). It is suggested
(by AAFCO) that all pet food manufacturers test grains for the mold, but
as<BR>recalls of the past have proven - that doesn't always happen. I do not
think these ingredients are as risky as others mentioned above, but they are
ingredients<BR>I avoid for my own pets. <BR>There is more to selecting a true
healthy pet food for your dog or cat than avoiding the above mentioned
ingredients. This is just a start - based on pet<BR>food history, AAFCO
ingredient definitions, science and opinion of many pet food experts including
myself. <BR>There are many quality pet foods available that do NOT use the above
ingredients and that add health promoting ingredients to their foods and treats.
Continue<BR>to learn as much as you can about what you are feeding your pet and
ALWAYS read the labels! <BR>======== <BR>Susan Thixton has worked in the pet
industry for over 20 years helping thousands of pet owners to enjoy their pets.
She's produced an internationally distributed<BR>dog training video, authored
the tell all book Truth About Pet Food, and recently has begun publication of a
one-of-a-kind pet owning consumer report Petsumer<BR>Report. For more
information please visit<BR><A
href="http://www.TruthAboutPetFood.com">http://www.TruthAbo<WBR>utPetFood.<WBR>com</A>
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