But significant controversy surrounds issues related to the safety of
ethoxyquin when chronically fed at permitted amounts in dog and cat foods.
Not exact matches
It really comes down to the credibility of the manufacturer whether we believe them
when they tell us that the ingredients they use are fit for human consumption, or that their fish meal isn't preserved with
ethoxyquin, or that they don't import anything from China.
This food contains a lot of fish meal,
when we contacted Natures Variety about the use of
ethoxyquin their answer was «Our fish is frozen at sea to prevent degradation and immediately processed into a fish meal once it -LSB-...]
I don't know about you, but I have a sneaking suspicion that — like me —
when you looked at your first dog food label, nothing in particular came to mind while reading ingredients like brewer's rice, by - products, BHA and
Ethoxyquin.
It is essential to remind that
when a producer obtains an
ethoxyquin preserved ingredient from a provider, the producer is not required to list
ethoxyquin on the pet food ingredient label.
When most pet foods contained artificial preservatives (BHA, BHT,
ethoxyquin), it was consumer pressure that drove the industry to manufacture their pet diets without them.