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Title: Foods 55 Times Worse Than Giving Your Pet Water From Flint, Michigan
Post by: DeeDee on July 03, 2017, 09:33:14 AM
Busted: 55 Times Worse Than Giving Your Pet Water From Flint, Michigan

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Story at-a-glance

A small non-profit organization, Clean Label Project, has tested over 900 of the best-selling pet foods for over 130 contaminants and toxins

Lead, arsenic, mercury and cadmium were found in a variety of tested pet foods; contaminants of one kind or another were measured in nearly every food

Examples include high levels of lead in a Wellness grain-free cat food and an Orijen dog food; a Rachael Ray formula contained high levels of mercury

Read more at: http://healthypets.mercola.com/sites/healthypets/archive/2017/07/03/contaminants-in-pet-food.aspx


Title: Re: Foods 55 Times Worse Than Giving Your Pet Water From Flint, Michigan
Post by: Pookie on July 03, 2017, 01:52:21 PM
Did you read the comments?  Someone posted a link about the "independent lab" that was used.  I'm posting the link here:

https://www.reddit.com/r/dogs/comments/6l0vs4/discussion_recent_claims_by_clean_label_project/

I confess, reading it made my head hurt, and I'm still not sure I followed it all.  But I wanted to share it.

BTW, that's not to say the results aren't valid.  But they may not be.
Title: Re: Foods 55 Times Worse Than Giving Your Pet Water From Flint, Michigan
Post by: DeeDee on July 03, 2017, 02:02:37 PM

BTW, that's not to say the results aren't valid.  But they may not be.

No. Never read comments, but it disturbed me when I searched Hills Science Diet and came up with 5-star items. Not anywhere near all of their foods tested though.