«Pets that eat pet food
containing pentobarbital can experience drowsiness, dizziness, excitement, loss of balance, nausea, nystagmus (eyes moving back and forth in a jerky manner) and inability to stand.
Not exact matches
Ohio's stockpile of
pentobarbital, its backup drug, expired in 2009, and so the state turned to an experimental cocktail
containing the sedative midazolam and the painkiller hydromorphone.
The euthanasia solution
contains a drug called
pentobarbital that used to be used as a general anaesthetic drug; the current solutions used are often coloured blue, yellow or pink.
In February 2017, the contents of a can of Evangers «Hunk of Beef» dog food was found to be contaminated with
pentobarbital (a euthanizing drug) and, in fact,
contained some amount of horse meat.
At issue is a rendered fat ingredient — the boiled byproduct of carcasses that
contained the euthanasia drug
pentobarbital.
MBM was reported as the ingredient most likely to
contain the drug used for euthanasia (sodium
pentobarbital) in a study conducted by the FDA..