Did You hear the latest contaminant in pet food?

Question

A Texas lab, found acetaminophen (a fifth possible
contaminant) in at least five samples of pet food that were submitted by pet owners and pet manufacturers. The medication was mostly found with cyanuric acid, and hundreds of other samples that were sent in tested positive for melamine.

The highest level of acetaminophen was found in a dog food sample submitted by a pet food manufacturer, but the lab is not identifying the company.

The contaminants were found in pet foods that have not
been recalled!

For more info check this link:
http://www.itchmo.com/read/texas-lab-finds-acetaminophen-in-pet-food_20070605

Answer 1

you see this is why i use holistic food and all commercial foods are killing our pets and giving them cancer .Nope holistic all the way for our household .

Answer 2

What people need to know is that this is not something new. There are toxins and chemicals in all dog food. The recall has just been a wake up call (that many are not answering). The FDA says right on their website that they found many toxins and are still working hard to find out which 2 toxins are causing the problems. They have found to date... Rat poison, agents similar to those found in antifreeze, melamine, cranuric acid and now this... At this time they believe the cyuanuric acid and the melamine are the 2 ingredients that are not mixing well and causing the problems. There were only trace amounts of all of these things.
The pet food industry has very little knowledge what they are putting in the food. ALL of the ingredients come to them in powder form.. including the meat! It has to be this way in order for the ingredients to go through the extruder machines that make the shapes of the dog food.
The companies have to rely on their sources of whats in the products.. They can't know and they don't test it themselves. This is evident when over 10 MILLION and counting products got out the door and into stores and your dogs bowl before anyone got a clue. Over 15,000 pets have been injured or killed so far and that number will continue to rise for many months.
Recalls are NOT new. There is a huge pet food recall every year although this one has been the biggest in history.
Dogs are sick all the time. You see it right here on Y answers daily.. My dog is puking, my dog has had diahrrea for 2 days my dog has hot spots, my dog is lethagic, my dog is pooping or peeing blood, my dog is eating grass all day.... NO ONE ever seems to want to believe these things are being caused by what they are putting in the dogs bowl. People do not realize tht each and every batch is different and filled with unknowns of toxins.
This is why we have fed a RAW diet for almost 5 years and I would never feed crapinabag again.
People have the NERVE to sit around and state that fresh raw meaty bones that I could feed to my family is dangerous! What a joke as thousands and thousands of pets die or are injured from crapinabag daily. You will never hear of thousands of dogs dying from fresh foods!
Read these articles:
http://www.naturalrearing.com/J_In_Learning/Diet/Food/InTheBag.htm

And then buy Ann Martins book called "Foods Pets Die For" and you will see that this is NOT a new problem. Has been going on for yearsand will continue to go on forever.

Answer 3

This is exactly why raw feeding is best and if people do not want to feed raw they should look into holistic human grade dog foods. Thanks for the info.