Pet Food and Melamine
The latest reports on the pet food recall are claiming that melamine was found not only in wheat gluten, but also in rice protein and corn gluten. What are wheat gluten, rice protein, and corn gluten, you ask? They’re cheap forms of protein, much cheaper
than chicken or real meat ingredients. Dog food companies choose those ingredients to keep their costs down, of course. Melamine is a chemical used to make plastics and is also used as a fertilizer. There are still no solid answers as to how it got into the pet food ingredients. Here’s an interesting article on one theory.
dogs, pets, animals, pet food, recall, wheat gluten, melamine, corn gluten, rice protein, contamination
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