Voici le pourquoi; les fabricants s'approvisionnent dans les différents pays suivants les cours mondiaux les plus intéressants du moment,
ainsi, une fois les farines de poulet viendront de Thailande, une fois de Chine, du Vietnam, de l'Inde, ces farines elles mème issues des déchets d'abattoirs de ces pays.
Sachant ce que contiennent certains de ces déchets et le peu de réglementation entourant les viandes et leurs fabrications, il est courant maintenant de voir augmenter les troubles gastro intestinaux des animaux, les problèmes rénaux et pancréatiques.
De mème, les chats nourris développent de plus en plus facilement des hypoglicémies, des problèmes de reproduction...
Vous pouvez toujours donner la viande fraiche, tous ces symptomes disparaissent.
Toutes les "viandes" composant les petfoods sont issues des abattoirs mondiaux.
De plus les aliments pour animaux contiennent des quantités d'OGM largement supérieures aux normes admises.
Voir liste de Greenpeace pour info.
A vous de choisir, changer de marque ne sert pas à grand chose car plusieurs marques sont issues d'une mème multinationale,
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Tainted pet food: Lab says melamine not only culprit
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PET FOOD RECALL
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Melamine combined with a related chemical — rather than melamine alone — likely caused the kidney damage in pets that ate tainted food, one lab investigating the case has found.
The finding by a laboratory in Ontario, Canada, appears to substantiate many scientists' theory that the melamine found in wheat gluten and rice protein concentrate used in recalled pet food did not fully explain the foods' apparent toxic effects on some animals that ate it.
STORY: Poisoned pet food seems to hit cats harder
The other chemical, cyanuric acid, can be produced during the making of melamine.
Used in pool cleaning, it has also been found in samples of recalled pet food.
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A team at the University of Guelph showed crystals formed in the kidneys of pets that ate food with the tainted ingredients are close to 50% melamine and 50% cyanuric acid.
"We took some ordinary cat urine and added three drops of melamine and three drops of cyanuric acid, and we got the identical crystals that we see in the kidneys" of the affected cats, said team leader Brent Hoff, a clinical toxicologist and pathologist at the university's Animal Health Laboratory.
Previous research had found melamine alone to be relatively non-toxic. It is used to make plastic.
The formation of these crystals in the kidneys appears to be the primary cause of renal failure in the affected animals, said Wilson Rumbeiha, a toxicologist at Michigan State University who is reviewing pathology reports on animal deaths related to melamine.
The FDA says melamine was added to two food ingredients, wheat gluten and rice protein concentrate, because it is high in nitrogen and makes the grain product look as if it is higher in protein — and therefore worth more — than it actually is. The ingredients were imported from China.
Pure melamine makes clear, rectangular or needle-like crystals. The melamine-cyanuric acid mix forms crystals that are round and yellow to dark brown, said Hoff.
Melamine is composed of carbon, hydrogen and nitrogen. In China, it is often made from coal, said James Kapin, a member of the American Chemical Society's chemical health and safety committee.
The coal is turned to a gas, and nitrogen-rich compounds are extracted from it. After more steps, the end result is melamine.
Melamine and cyanuric acid are chemically very closely related, said Kapin. So cyanuric acid could be created at several points in the processing of melamine.
As melamine prices have risen, melamine scrap may been substituted for pure melamine.
The Chinese company that sold the tainted wheat gluten had advertised for melamine scrap on websites before the pet-food recall.
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Désolée pour le début de liste, cela vient des USA et j'ai eu du mal à sélectionner, il faut lire à partir de PettFood Recall, vous comprendrez mieux les problèmes qui apparaissent aujjourd'hui, mais les problèmes ont débutés avec RC il y a Dix ans, au moment des fusions avec Waltham,
les autres marques suivent peu à peu, absorbées par les géants de l'agroalimentaire
Problèmes qui touchent aussi les humanfoods