Posted on February 6, 2010.
Keep your pets the next Clair Pet Food Recall ... Here are the "red flags" of Pet Food Last year proved to be the worst in the history of pet food recalls. Although there is no way to be 100% sure that food is not tainted or remember, there are red flags to look for when choosing your dog food or the cat. Avoid these common ingredients of pet food can greatly improve your chances in the purchase of a safe and healthy food for pets.
Judging the safety or nutritional value of food for pets begins by ignoring the advertising, the price of feed, and ignoring the front of the bag. The real signs of a food safety dog or cat food lying on your back or side of the bag or can in the "List of ingredients. Regardless of what marketing terms ('choice', 'premium', and so on) are on the front of the bag or can of food for pets, a pet owner can not determine the quality or degree Food security is less ingredients they look. With the dry food may be 90 different ingredients (or more), with canned foods can be more than 50 different ingredients. But do not panic ... you do not understand hundreds of different food ingredients pet! You just need to be aware of some key ingredients ... pet food ingredients that you do not want a dog or cat food food (or treats).
Rice gluten, corn gluten wheat gluten, "or". These three ingredients have been the bad boy of feed ingredients in 2007. Tainted glutens were found to the cause of thousands of dogs and cats becoming sick and dying. It is not that glutens themselves are toxic to pets - these ingredients have been used in pet foods for years. The problem has been the source or manufacturer of gluten - imported from countries far from the lower standards in the United States. (The majority of the gluten used in pet foods in the United States comes from imported sources.) These imported glutens contained added chemicals cause to form crystals in the kidneys of dogs and cats.
Not only is it important to avoid foods for dogs and cats (and dog and cat treats) that contain gluten because of the possibility of dangerous chemicals added, it is important because they bring no real nutritional quality of food. Glutens are used as thickener and as a source of protein in feed for pets. Dog Food Adult Maintenance must provide a minimum of 18% protein, feed adult cats maintenance should provide a minimum of 26% protein. If the meat source of food for pets does not provide enough protein, gluten is often added to increase the protein content of pet food. The best diet for your pet from a meat protein feed rather than a protein gluten. gluten soy wheat gluten Avoid foods for dogs and cats (and treats) that contain "corn gluten", "or".
"Through products. The by-products have never been to a recall of pet food, but they are definitely ingredients you want to avoid feeding your pet. To give you an understanding of by-products, I would compare this feed ingredient to pies - you know, the dessert! How many different types of pies you can think of? There are apple pies, cherry pies, chocolate pies, meringue pies, meat pies, pies, pies in math, cow pies (yuck!) - I think you get my point. Now, imagine if you bought yourself a dinner prepared ravioli at the grocery store and you looked at the ingredients and you see 'pie' listed as the first ingredient in your dinner. Hmmm, pie ravioli - What kind of pie? You do not know if she was the apple tart or pie or even cow pie. Everything you do know that your dinner contained 'pie'. Considering "Cake" could be anything from apple pie cow pie - I guess you would not have dumplings for dinner. Same thing with by-products in pet foods.
AAFCO (American Association of Feed Control officials - from the organization.
