Consumer Wellness has released a review of common pet food ingredients (canned and dry). It was created by Dr. Lisa Newman, N.D., Ph.D. (www.Azmira.com), consumer health advocate Mike Adams (www.HealthRanger.org) and the non-profit Consumer Wellness Center.
To create the report, Mike Adams and the CWC analyzed the ingredients of 448 popular pet food products sold in the United States and organized the ingredients by frequency of appearance. Dr. Lisa Newman then provided a nutritional analysis and comment for each ingredient. Four lists were created:
1. Pet food ingredients by rating (from 5 stars down to 1 star, with 5 stars indicating the best quality ingredients).
2. Pet food ingredients by frequency (sorted by how frequently they appear in pet food products, from 96% down to 1%).
3. Pet food ingredients listed alphabetically (to make it easier for consumers to reference ingredients they’re curious about).
4. Worst pet food ingredients (which lists all the 1-star ingredients, indicating low- quality or hazardous ingredients).“Given the atrocious track record of pet food safety in the United States, we felt an urgent need to publish a tell-all reference guide that had the courage to reveal the truth about commonly used pet food ingredients,” said Mike Adams, the executive director of the non-profit Consumer Wellness Center. “Consumers desperately need to know what’s really in their pet food, and there is an urgent need for the pet food industry to clean up its act and stop poisoning dogs, cats and other pets with toxic ingredients that cause cancer, diabetes and other diseases,” Adams said.
http://www.newstarget.com/Report_pet_food_ingredients_0.html
China Daily reports, Industrial raw materials found in food, and that more than 180 food plants have been closed as a result.
A nationwide inspection of the food-production industry has uncovered the use of a wide range of illegal ingredients in the processing of foodstuffs, the top quality watchdog said Tuesday.Industrial raw materials, such as dyes, mineral oils, paraffin wax, formaldehyde and the carcinogenic malachite green, have been used in the production of flour, candy, pickles, biscuits, black fungus, melon seeds, bean curd and seafood.
Some processors also use recycled or expired food in their operations, according to the General Administration of Quality Supervision, Inspection and Quarantine.
“These are not isolated cases,” Han Yi, director of the administration’s quality control and inspection department, said at a press conference.
He said most of the cases involved small, unlicensed food-processing plants employing less than 10 people. All plants caught engaging in illegal practices have been shut down, he added.
Administration figures show that about 75 percent of the 1 million food-processing plants in the country are small and privately owned.
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The issue burst into the international spotlight this year after melamine-contaminated wheat gluten and rice protein exported from China tainted pet food in North America.
Han said the administration always puts food safety first and had shown no mercy to violators.
Both the Food Hygiene Law and the Criminal Law ban the use of chemical ingredients or harmful substance in food production. Violators who cause serious poisoning or death face sentences of at least 10 years in jail or even death.
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I LOVE Azmira products.. and I’m not surprised that Dr. Lisa is involved in this.. she is a huge advocate.