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FDA Issues Warning Letters for Unapproved Tear Stain Removers Used in Dogs and Cats:

http://www.fda.gov/AnimalVeterinary/NewsEvents/CVMUpdates/ucm412162.htm

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The U.S. Food and Drug Administration is issuing warning letters today to companies manufacturing unapproved animal drugs to remove tear stains in dogs and cats. These products, including Angels’ Eyes, Angels’ Glow, Pets’ Spark, and exported products Glow Groom and Health Glow, have not been reviewed by FDA for safety and effectiveness. These tear stain removers also contain the medically important antibiotic tylosin tartrate, which is not approved for use in dogs or cats, nor for the treatment of conditions associated with tear stains. Tear stain remover products are used to treat tear staining conditions around the eyes of animals, which, in particular, is associated with a condition called epiphora, mostly in cats and dogs.
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Kinda OT... kinda not.  My pets that had tear stains... when I changed their food, the tear goops and stains went away. 
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I've never had one that got them until Dannyboy's last year. He had that cancer though, so he was sick, and I was attributing it to that. Didn't worry about the tear stains though. There was too much more to worry about.

Everything that I've ever read about it attributed it to some kind of imbalance in the body. I didn't know the tear stain products had an antibiotic in them though until now. That's definitely not something you want a pet on long-term if it's not necessary. If a pet gets really sick then, it's harder to treat an infection. Plus, you're ruining their gut by doing it.
"In order to really enjoy a dog, one doesn't merely try to train him to be semihuman. The point of it is to open oneself to the possibility of becoming partly a dog." Edward Hoagland
"Thorns may hurt you, men desert you, sunlight turn to fog; but you're never friendless ever, if you have a dog."

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