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Old January 29th 06, 08:54 PM posted to rec.pets.cats.health+behav
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"Steve Crane" eodemolay cox.net wrote:

treeline12345 yahoo.com wrote:
(I put both lists in ascending values)
This is great information. I tried to get this from Purina. I
gave up after getting three different values for the same
product. It's very uneven the quality of information. It's much
better if this is published. It's kind of sad that this ordinary
information is only available as a veterinary resource. Why not
public information? After all, it's only the product listing.


Actually I doubt the information is all that good. Unless you can
match the analyticals to the same manufacturing location and the
same lot of pet food. Any expectation that nutrient values in
grocery store foods will be the same from one lot to another is
pretty much wishful thinking. That is not the goal - or even a
last place sub-goal of foods manufactured for this market channel.
It shouldn't be at all surprising that you would get three or four
or different sets of values. It would not surprise me at all to
find an analysis of 3 different lots of precisely the same food
that have a variation in nutrients by more than 50% from the
highest to the lowest.


If you have any citations for that, I would like to see them.










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Old January 29th 06, 09:11 PM posted to rec.pets.cats.health+behav
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John Doe wrote:
"Steve Crane" eodemolay cox.net wrote:

treeline12345 yahoo.com wrote:
(I put both lists in ascending values)
This is great information. I tried to get this from Purina. I
gave up after getting three different values for the same
product. It's very uneven the quality of information. It's much
better if this is published. It's kind of sad that this ordinary
information is only available as a veterinary resource. Why not
public information? After all, it's only the product listing.


Actually I doubt the information is all that good. Unless you can
match the analyticals to the same manufacturing location and the
same lot of pet food. Any expectation that nutrient values in
grocery store foods will be the same from one lot to another is
pretty much wishful thinking. That is not the goal - or even a
last place sub-goal of foods manufactured for this market channel.
It shouldn't be at all surprising that you would get three or four
or different sets of values. It would not surprise me at all to
find an analysis of 3 different lots of precisely the same food
that have a variation in nutrients by more than 50% from the
highest to the lowest.


If you have any citations for that, I would like to see them.


You can cite me. I just posted that I asked way more than three times
for the phosphorus levels and received more than three different
replies. Why? It's all a bit of a joke, apparently. There is no
consistant monitoring except at a very crude level for these Fancy
Feast and comparable products. I cannot trust them now except not to
make poisonous food. Whoppee.

I just accessed the vet part of Purina/Nestle. Very disappointing. I
did not even see phosphorus levels in their main program they put out
for the vets to use. It just listed the kcals which is better than
nothing. But pretty more. It's what I would release for laymen not for
vets. Very childlike program. Idiot level.

Where do you even find phosphorus levels on their vet site? I cannot
find Phil P's Vet Guide from Purina/Nestle that he found nor yours
except for the crude listing of a few Fancy Feasts and only the kcals.
Did you go to another place for the phosphorus levels? I assume you
used the same primitive Vet Guide that I found. Or is that the same as
Phil P's? Can't be since his listed actual elements like phosphorus. Is
there a special part of their site then? I registered for the vet part
of the site.

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Old January 29th 06, 09:25 PM posted to rec.pets.cats.health+behav
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Raff wrote:
I have been unable to find the above-mentioned "Friskies Special Diet
Ocean Whitefish and Tuna Dinner" on the Friskies website, or on Google
for that matter. They do list a "Friskies Special Diet Ocean Whitefish
Diet" for urinary tract. Is it possible that they have discontinued the
formulation with tuna? Do you have any information on the Special Diet
formulation without tuna?
Raff


I just don't know now. It was in my notes and I remember buying it.
Maybe it was the last of a series they discontinued. Maybe I am losing
my "mind." It's so difficult to do anything with Purina/Nestle that I
am about to completely give up on this company. If they cannot publish
what they have, then screw them. I don't find any reliable info when I
telephone and ask in person, when I search their web site, when I
search their vet web site. They are a Swiss company and they act like a
Swiss bank. All smiles and screw you when you really need them. It's
the royal run-around. You just don't know what's true. How can I trust
them now? Remember Africa and messing around with the formula for
babies' milk? Was that not Nestle? If they do that to human beings,
what would they do to cats? Okay, I am angry. Time to let this all go.
Take a deep breath.

Here's what Phil P. published and it's too damn high for a special
diet. It's even too damn high for a regular diet:

Friskies Special Diet Ocean Whitefish Diet 0.26% (AF) 1.18% (DMB)

1.18% phosphorus is almost 1.20% which is about double the phosphorus
you would regularly like to use, especially in an older cat. Bums. And
this they call a SPECIAL DIET. Special Diet for death. Okay, that's a
tad harsh. Maybe a Special Diet except sky high in phosphorus?

Do you have any information on the Special Diet formulation without tuna?

This is the only Special Diet with Ocean Whitefish that N/P lists in
their nutritional profiles. Phil

I'm repeating what Phil replied to you because you missed it,
apparently. Or did I?

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Old January 29th 06, 09:54 PM posted to rec.pets.cats.health+behav
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"treeline12345 yahoo.com" treeline12345 yahoo.com wrote:

John Doe wrote:
"Steve Crane" eodemolay cox.net wrote:

treeline12345 yahoo.com wrote:
(I put both lists in ascending values)
This is great information. I tried to get this from Purina. I
gave up after getting three different values for the same
product. It's very uneven the quality of information. It's much
better if this is published. It's kind of sad that this ordinary
information is only available as a veterinary resource. Why not
public information? After all, it's only the product listing.

Actually I doubt the information is all that good. Unless you can
match the analyticals to the same manufacturing location and the
same lot of pet food. Any expectation that nutrient values in
grocery store foods will be the same from one lot to another is
pretty much wishful thinking. That is not the goal - or even a
last place sub-goal of foods manufactured for this market channel.
It shouldn't be at all surprising that you would get three or four
or different sets of values. It would not surprise me at all to
find an analysis of 3 different lots of precisely the same food
that have a variation in nutrients by more than 50% from the
highest to the lowest.


If you have any citations for that, I would like to see them.


You can cite me. I just posted that I asked way more than three times
for the phosphorus levels and received more than three different
replies. Why? It's all a bit of a joke, apparently. There is no
consistant monitoring except at a very crude level for these Fancy
Feast and comparable products. I cannot trust them now except not to
make poisonous food. Whoppee.


I'm talking about a citation to a study.

Like is there a PubMed for animals?












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Old January 30th 06, 12:31 PM posted to rec.pets.cats.health+behav
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John Doe wrote:

"Steve Crane" eodemolay cox.net wrote:
Actually I doubt the information is all that good. Unless you can
match the analyticals to the same manufacturing location and the
same lot of pet food. Any expectation that nutrient values in
grocery store foods will be the same from one lot to another is
pretty much wishful thinking. That is not the goal - or even a
last place sub-goal of foods manufactured for this market channel.
It shouldn't be at all surprising that you would get three or four
or different sets of values. It would not surprise me at all to
find an analysis of 3 different lots of precisely the same food
that have a variation in nutrients by more than 50% from the
highest to the lowest.


If you have any citations for that, I would like to see them.


You can cite me. I just posted that I asked way more than three times
for the phosphorus levels and received more than three different
replies. Why? It's all a bit of a joke, apparently. There is no
consistant monitoring except at a very crude level for these Fancy
Feast and comparable products. I cannot trust them now except not to
make poisonous food. Whoppee.


I'm talking about a citation to a study.

Like is there a PubMed for animals?


PubMed includes quite a few veterinarian or animal studies.

There are veterinarian resources that you can try. Someone might have
run a study. I don't know if cat food makers are obligated to really
put out the phosphorus levels. I kind of doubt it for the mass
supermarket since most of the manufacturers I call just laugh at me
when I ask for calcium and phosphorus levels. I could look up whether
the phosphorus levels have much to do with the AAFCO or official cat
food requirements. I doubt it since most of the mass foods are super
high in phosphorus. Science Diet is an exception. Royal Canin and Iams
may also be exceptions. But these are not supermarket companies
although I see Iams and am not sure about that company. I did get a lot
of info from Science Diet and Royal Canin. I get almost zip from
Purina/Nestle. mostly talking heads, nice people, but clueless as a
rule. And I get absolutely zip from the vets on the staff at
Purina/Nestle. Nothing. Not a single answer as to what they are putting
into their foods, well, the phosphorus levels. Nothing.

And the subject is not necessarily one that scientists conduct studies
of. But I do not know since I am not yet motivated to search. Since the
poster works for Science Diet and is thus part of the industry, he
might have a valid point. Of course, others will say he is biased. But
that may be part of the package. In any case, his explanation dovetails
why I have had so much trouble finding out information from these
manufacturers. And in Purina/Nestle's case, the information was often
different. Now I know why. Either someone is not terribly compentent or
the info changes from batch to batch or no one really cares all that
much. In any case, red flags are raised. If someone cannot be bothered
to answer a question easily, then it could be that the question is not
really important to that company. Nestle does not have a great
reputation for consideration in this regard - although the deaths of
the infants in Africa might incline them now to be a tad more socially
responsible. That was about pushing a substitute for mother's milk that
was not sufficient for life [i forget why, contained soy and/or just
not able to support life as natural breast milk]? A corporation that
big and ruthless is not going to be all that motivated about little
pussy cats and their phosphorus levels.

The end of your posts have an awful lot of info attached to them. Is
that a function of webtv or can you trim that info? I trim your info
here but maybe it's a function of your news program. Something like
under Options, turn off Detailed Info? But with webtv, it may not be
under your control at all? On my other newsreaders, there's a slot for
turning off HTML which does the same sort of thing, except in that
case, it's adding HTML code at the end instead of information. I got
it. It's the Headers in a way, giving out where your, what do you call
it, the train, the tracking, I don't recall the exact words, but it
tracks your internet addressing and routes.

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Old January 30th 06, 01:38 PM posted to rec.pets.cats.health+behav
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"Steve Crane" wrote in message
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Phil P. wrote:

Why did you only post the Fancy Feast and Friskies diets with the

highest
phosphorus content? Some FF & Friskies diets are as low and even

*lower* in
phosphorus than some Science Diets.



Because those are the only ones Purina lists in the veterinary product
guide -


But Steve, you *know* Fancy Feast and Friskies make *many* lower phosphorus
diets. You should have mentioned that fact rather than imply all their diets
are high in phosphorus.






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Old January 30th 06, 01:39 PM posted to rec.pets.cats.health+behav
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wrote in message

I cannot
find Phil P's Vet Guide from Purina/Nestle that he found


Steve posted that, not me.




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Old January 30th 06, 06:52 PM posted to rec.pets.cats.health+behav
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Phil P. wrote:
But Steve, you *know* Fancy Feast and Friskies make *many* lower phosphorus
diets. You should have mentioned that fact rather than imply all their diets
are high in phosphorus.


That's a toughie. On one hand, he works for Science Diet, a rather
small company compared to Nestle[Purina] that specializes in food for
felines and canines. That company actually provides listings that
almost all the others cannot be bothered to. So if he wishes to
advocate, well, okay, a little provocation may be good. And you are
here to point out any questions about all of this. And it's good, also,
in a way, that Science Diet has Steve here. At least they care enough
to squawk.

On the other hand, I cannot see how a handful of their many product
constitute *many* lower phosphorus diets. I don't know much about this
stuff. But I counted up, just once, all the varieties of Fancy Feast,
and I counted somewhere around 60. Out of that 60, I found 5, based on
your posts and my readings, that I would consider acceptable phosphorus
levels for a feline diet. 5/60 = 1/12 which is, wait, 8.3%. That's not
a lot. For the average uninformed consumer, there is a 1 in 12 chance
of picking up a Fancy Feast that is reasonably safe in phosphorus
levels. That's not good. See later. I biased this counting because I
discounted beef products. See below.

If people only buy Fancy Feast for one meal a week, then, okay, not
much of a problem. If buying for everyday, well, what happens to a cat
on a diet where the phosphorus levels go start around usually 1% to 2%?
And the recommended or better levels are less than 1%, maybe around
0.7% for most cats, to be on the safe side?

Friskies has about 44 varieties. Maybe 9 are okay with 4 below 0.8%.

Fancy Feast has about 9 okay too. I count only 5 since I discard all
those with beef in it. Don't laugh. Mad cow disease and all that and my
cat won't touch the beef. Smart kitty. But 9/60 is a better count, so
that's 3/20 or 15% chance, almost double my original number of 8.3%. In
any case, the odds are against picking cans that are low in phosphorus.
A very good chance to pick cans that are high. Does it matter? It might
and some seem to think so. I might have miscounted Fancy Feast now.
They may have less varieties than they used to. They are repackaging
the brand.

I will search for the brands you list that are low. But it's all a
hassle since most of these products are high in phosphorus. I have to
inspect each can and most of the cans are very high in phosphorus. Does
it matter? I keep remember one vet when I discussed this with him
briefly. He said that all this is quite complex. But he does not see at
the vet hospital, [and this was a huge 24 hour/7 day vet hospital with
many vets and a trauma unit], does not see cats with urinary problems
who are fed Science Diet or Iams.

I remember that. We were discussing weight loss and not urinary tract
problems. This was just an aside that came out of our brief discussion
at a pet show. He was representing the animal hospital, not Science
Diet or Iams. But who knows. He seemed sincere and that is his
impression based on his experience, which may have been extensive. I
don't know. But after trying to get information from Nestle/Purina, I
come back to an old cliche:

If information is difficult to obtain or not readily available, then
that's a clear sign, all by itself, of something that is not good and
necessitates further scrutiny.

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Old January 30th 06, 07:43 PM posted to rec.pets.cats.health+behav
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wrote in message
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Phil P. wrote:
But Steve, you *know* Fancy Feast and Friskies make *many* lower

phosphorus
diets. You should have mentioned that fact rather than imply all their

diets
are high in phosphorus.


That's a toughie.


No, its actually simple.


On one hand, he works for Science Diet, a rather
small company compared to Nestle[Purina] that specializes in food for
felines and canines. That company actually provides listings that
almost all the others cannot be bothered to.


I know you can't be including N/P because they publish complete nutrient
profiles for all their diets. In fact, many companies will send you the
nutrient profiles of their diets if you ask for them.

You don't really think Hill's has all their diets analyzed, do you? They're
only required to test the "lead" member of the product family. Haven't you
every wondered why the nutrient values of their diets never change? Or do
you actually believe every batch of every diet is exactly the same?


On the other hand, I cannot see how a handful of their many product

constitute *many* lower phosphorus diets

Must be a pretty big hand! About 20 of NP diets are lower to acceptable
phosphorus levels-- that's more diets than most companies' entire product
lines.




 




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