Jack Campin - bogus address wrote:
I am concerned whether the food I have been feeding them for the last year
was safe or not. Nowhere in the news articles that I have found online do
they mention whether the contaminated chicken meat has ended up in pet
food. Has anyone heard anything about pet food being affected by this?

The contaminant was in eggs, which are not a standard ingredient of
catfood. The only kinds of catfood where I've seen egg listed as an
ingredient were the Hills "c/d" food for cats susceptible to FUS and
their "anti-struvite" food designed to disintegrate the crystals that
cause it. So maybe it might be worth worrying for this sort of food.


But if the chickens have been fed contaminated feed since March,
wouldn't their bodies also contain high levels of dioxin? From what I've
read online, both meat and eggs are affected -
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-12135747

From the link: "German authorities have blocked meat and eggs sales
from some 4,700 farms across the country after it was revealed that
chickens and pigs had eaten feed contaminated with dangerous levels of
dioxins."

Kotyo eats Hill's k/d for his CRF. The list of ingredients for k/d
includes chicken and pork liver. Sweety eats Hill's Chicken and Liver
where the main ingredient is chicken. I'll definitely be emailing Hill's
in the morning.

Nadia, Kotyo and Sweety

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