The pet food fiasco gets worse: Pet Foods May Have Been Intentionally Poisoned.
Imported ingredients used in recalled pet food may have been intentionally spiked with an industrial chemical to boost their apparent protein content, federal officials said Thursday.That's one theory being pursued by the Food and Drug Administration as it investigates how the chemical, melamine, contaminated at least two ingredients used to make more than 100 brands of dog and cat foods.
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Chinese authorities have told the FDA that the wheat gluten was an industrial product not meant for pet food, [Stephen Sundlof, the FDA's chief veterinarian] said. Still, melamine can skew test results to make a product appear more protein-rich than it really is, he added. That raises the possibility the contamination was deliberate.
As I said to a friend today, I'm not quite ready to start feeding the cats organic raw foods only. But if the news on the pet-food front gets any worse, I might just do that.
And maybe it is time to start rethinking how much "industrial" food we buy for the household humans, as well.
