Don’t let down your guard about the quality of commercial pet foods

While the pet food recall isn’t the story on everyone’s lips anymore, maybe it still should be.  While it seems that the manufacturing companies have resolved their quality control problems and are going back into production, tests by private labs show that many types of pet food, some of which were never recalled, are still contaminated with melamine, cyanuric acid, and even acetaminophin.  According to this story in the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review, a lab in Texas was asked by a pet food manufacturer to test their products for contaminants.  My guess is that the pet food company wanted a clean bill of health that they could use in advertising.  Instead, they were informed that their food contained acetaminophen, which is utterly toxic and deadly to cats.  The lab isn’t naming the pet food manufacturer, but whichever company it is did not have any products recalled during the melamine scare, and they’ve now known about the acetaminophen problem for over a month and still haven’t spoken up.  And, in another great show of decision-making, the pet food company did not inform the FDA of the contamination problem with their pet food, as they’re legally obligated to.  The FDA found out the news from people on the Internet.

I’m sure the pet food company will be revealed any day now, but I think the problem may be that there’s more than one company with acetaminophen in their food.  How did it get there?  Was this deliberate sabotage and contamination?  I really don’t know, but now more than ever, be alert about what you’re feeding.

Posted by Leigh-Ann on 06/06 at 02:05 AM

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