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Joe Canuck wrote in message m...
Okay, this has just come to my attention. Can anyone explain why there is a discrepancy between the ingredient list on the bag and the ingredient list on the website for Science Diet Adult Chicken & Rice Recipe? Joe et al, The website is updated within ~24 hours of any change in the formula. The pre-printed bags can often be printed months in advance. In this case the old bag you have contains the old "artificial antioxidant" labelling. That does not mean the product contains artificial antioxidants, simply old bags being used until they are gone. The product was changed months ago. I'd be curious to know the date on the older bag. Elsewhere on this thread was a comment about BHA BHT causing cancer. That is pure internet fantasy. There has ever been a single animal that has ever been shown to have sufferred any negative consequences as a result of the use of artificial antioxidants. None, zip, zero nada. You have to understand the difference between the testing levels and what is used in pet food. If Vitamin E, Beta Carotene, Sodium, Selenium, and several other ingredients were fed at the same grossly exagerated levels, all of them would be fatal. The majority of studies were done at 1% or 10,000 parts per million, the amounts used in pet food are about 30 parts per million, more than 300 times the levels used in pet foods. Most people can take 2 aspirin without a problem, anyone who ingested 600 aspirin would suffer a fatal result. Lots of companies like Flint River use scare tactics to try to sell the food. One of Flint Rivers favorite scare tactics is to claim that a pet would ingest 26 pounds of preservatives in a year. This is of course completely ludicrous. I've spent some time trying to track this number down. And in every case, every web site that makes the claims refers to another web site, but nobody will take responsibility for the false number or explain how it was derived. It would take about 393,000 pounds of food to provide 26 pounds of artificial antioxidants. Not even a dog the size of Tyranosaurus Rex would consume that much food in a year. |
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