Some of the more hazardous edible items include:. While not necessarily toxic, some food items can cause a gastrointestinal obstruction a blockage in the digestive tract if your pet swallows them. Fruit pits in the Prunus genus of trees and shrubs, which includes cherries, nectarines, peaches, and plums, contain cyanide, but cyanide poisoning is rare unless your pet eats a lot of pits and chews them up. The pits must be crushed or ground up to release the cyanide.
A gastrointestinal obstruction is the bigger risk for dogs and cats that eat these fruit pits. While not edible themselves, food bags, especially the mylar-type potato chip bags, cereal bags, and snack bags , can be a danger for pets.
Dogs are typically more likely than cats to sniff out food bags. These bags are thin enough that if your dog puts his head far enough into one and breathes in, the bag can wrap around his nose and mouth, suffocating him. The more your dog breathes in, the tighter the bag gets around his face. The best test of a product is the customers records, that is the ultimate test. The consumer records of the major companies are shameful. The company as a whole got a 3.
So, there are far worse companies that are highly contaminated, even though they have more suitable ingredients. The Clean Plate Project has a questionable history history as well. There are others. We do what we think is best. Most of what is said in this article is completely false.
The AAFCO literally has the definitions of animal by-product and poultry by-product meals and both very specifically state that hair, horns, feathers, beaks, hides, and manure cannot be included in these ingredients. AAFCO also says nothing about the definition of by-products changing if the species is specified.
Animal Byproduct Meal: the rendered product from animal tissues, exclusive of any added hair, hoof, horn, hide trimmings, manure, stomach and rumen contents, except in such amounts as may occur unavoidably in good processing practices.
It shall not contain extraneous materials not provided for by this definition. This ingredient definition is intended to cover those individual rendered animal tissues that cannot meet the criteria as set forth elsewhere in this section. This ingredient is not intended to be used to label a mixture of animal tissue products. Poultry By-Product Meal: consist of the ground, rendered, clean parts of the carcass of slaughtered poultry, such as necks, feet, undeveloped eggs and intestines, exclusive of feathers except in such amounts as might occur unavoidably in good processing practices.
The label shall include guarantees for minimum crude protein, minimum crude fat, maximum crude fiber, minimum Phosphorus P , and minimum and maximum Calcium C. The Calcium Ca level shall not be more than 2.
If the product bears a name descriptive of its kind, it must correspond thereto. Meat Byproducts: the non-rendered, clean parts, other than meat, derived from slaughtered mammals. It includes, but is not limited to, lungs, spleen, kidneys, brain, livers, blood, bone, partially de-fatted low temperature fatty tissue and stomachs and intestines freed of their contents.
It does not include hair, horns, teeth and hoofs. It shall be suitable for use in animal feed. If it bears a name descriptive of its kind, it must correspond thereto. Although the USDA does not deem certain byproducts, such as udders and lungs, edible for human consumption, they can be perfectly safe and nutritious for other animals.
Uh… Allison… no. What you describe is more the PFI playbook of ingredient definition. Mars Inc. Will have high levels of Arsenic from feeding practices. Can vary in quality from batch to batch. Chicken by-product costs less than Chicken muscle meat but lacks its digestibility. Coli and these are NOT destroyed by high temperature rendering; severe sickness and organ failure can result!
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