Ingredients and substances to avoid

Ingredients and substances to avoid

Aflatoxin concerns in pet food: What are the options?

Recent pet food recalls due to aflatoxin contamination are another warning that this naturally occurring mold toxin is a food safety issue for the industry.

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Ingredients and substances to avoid

Clean label pet food: How does mercury get into dog and cat foods?

Concern for mercury in pet food affects only certain cat and dog food products.

Ingredients and substances to avoid

Clean label pet food: Is there any practical concern about arsenic in dog and cat foods?

The measured presence of arsenic in pet foods does not equate to toxicity for this naturally occurring earth element.

Ingredients and substances to avoid

Salmonella: The ingredient no one wants in their petfood

While events that conspired to sweep petfood into the Food Safety Modernization Act of 2011 were not exclusively pathogen related, the net result has been an almost singular focus on eliminating Salmonella in petfood. Before 2007, the only area in the news that seemed to be affected by Salmonella was poultry products (i.e., chicken and eggs).

Ingredients and substances to avoid

Bisphenol A: incidental non-ingredient

In the production of petfoods—no different than human foods—there are a number of compounds that make their way into the food that aren’t a part of the formula/recipe or stated on the ingredient listing. This is nothing underhanded or disingenuous, merely a function of the process, package and regulations.

Ingredients and substances to avoid

PCB and dioxin: side effects of our industrialized world

This column is usually reserved for a review of the various features of a specific ingredient used in petfoods. But this issue, the focus is on a class of contaminants that periodically find their way into food and feed for humans and animals.