Read the fine print of many pet foods, and you’ll find the ingredient sodium selenite. More than 90% of pet foods include sodium selenite in their recipies, the other pet foods have chosen a safer alternative. Why? Everything you wanted to know about Selenium, but probably didn’t know you should ask. Selenium is an essential …
If your pet food has any corn ingredient in it, there is a serious concern for you to take note of. A recent harvest analysis of 2013 corn and corn silage samples in the U.S. found 100% contamination with deadly mycotoxins. Alltech – an international animal health company – surveyed 329 samples of corn from …
Based on the ‘six degrees of separation’ theory, I propose a quest for all readers. The recent Centers for Disease Control report on a Mars Petcare pet food plant proves there are many concerns we are just beginning to learn about in pet food. Let’s put the ‘six degrees’ theory to work in our favor …
Pictures speak a thousand words. The following pictures were provided by one of you wonderful pet food consumers out there – from a recent trip to Fort Dodge, Iowa. Right from the Purina plant, “Inedible Animal Food.” If you look at this image closely, you’ll see tanker trucks parked inside the Purina plant property… But …
Do you know what this is a picture of? Take a guess. Hint: it has something to do with pet food. One picture is worth a thousand words. No judgment, just reality. Provided by a friend… This is a dump truck/trailer load full of a meat meal ingredient being delivered to a pet food manufacturing …
We have just passed our three year anniversary of sending the FDA a Citizen Petition. We asked – simply put – for FDA to enforce the law. Three years later, we have received no response. Here’s a reminder of what we asked FDA. It is the worst horror of pet food, the deepest darkest secret …
Information provided to TruthaboutPetFood.com is showing some private label brands and another large importer are scrambling to test their jerky treat products for illegal drug residues and/or are taking their own initiative to remove non-recalled jerky treat products from China from store shelves. It was shared that Hartz is “putting all of its chicken chew …
The Director-General of WHO – World Health Organization Dr. Margaret Chan is right. Dr. Chan, in a recent speech to a global health conference, summed up the problems of the human food industry; and what she stated sums up the problems with the pet food industry as well. Published on Marion Nestle’s blog Food Politics, …
BPA or Bisphenol A is a hot topic these days with health conscious consumers and petsumers. Pet owners, concerned about the risks associated with BPA are contacting their pet food companies asking if canned pet foods contain the chemical. However, many Pet Food answers to the BPA questions seem to be as varied as pet …
Trusted friend and pet food investigator extraordinaire – Dr. Gary Pusillo – shares a concern about ergot alkaloid problems he is seeing in “some supplements and foods containing wheat middling’s and other wheat products.” Here is what ergot alkaloids are, and the risk they pose to pets. First and foremost, I take every bit of …
