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Pet Treats Found to Contain Heavy Metals

NaturalNews.com’s pet treat testing found lead, cadmium, and mercury in pet treats in dangerous levels. Here are the products they tested and what they found.

NaturalNews.com’s pet treat testing found lead, cadmium, and mercury in pet treats in dangerous levels.  Here are the products they tested and what they found.

Mundy Rawhide Gourmet Dog Treats made by Cadet (manufactured in China) tested to contain “an astonishing 1.8 ppm of lead”.

Ocean Whitefish cat treats made by PureBites tested to contain 0.5 ppm mercury.

Natural Rawhide Rings dog treats made by PetSafe (manufactured in Taiwan) tested to contain over 1.5 ppm lead.

The NaturalNews.com article shares “Just to give you an idea of what that really means, just one rawhide ring weighing 8 grams would expose your dog to over 24 times the daily lead limit set by California Proposition 65. That’s almost a month’s worth of lead in a single pet treat.”

Some of the products that tested clean of heavy metal contamination include Hill Country Fare Dog Food, Friskies Can Cat Food, and Loving Pets Premium Duck Filet.

To see the full list of products tested by NaturalNews.com – Click Here.

 

Wishing you and your pet(s) the best,

Susan Thixton
Pet Food Safety Advocate
Author Buyer Beware, Co-Author Dinner PAWsible
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9 Comments

9 Comments

  1. jocelyn

    April 23, 2014 at 11:27 am

    Can you please posts the link to the actual reports?

    • Susan Thixton

      April 23, 2014 at 11:33 am

      The links are above – in bold.

  2. no spam

    April 23, 2014 at 3:04 pm

    you have to submit an email to see the graph of the full list… but to me it’s worth it.

  3. barbara

    April 23, 2014 at 4:12 pm

    Great graphs. Is there a website that has the result in numbers as well as bar graphs? I wanted to print out a list for my local feed store that sells rawhide and other gross items, such as pigs ears. The blue bar graphs give you a general idea, but my printer won’t print colors.

  4. Gina Schwind

    April 23, 2014 at 6:57 pm

    I am skeptical about this research. Mainly, I could not find any actual research. What I did find was a lot of information about Mike Adams “Health Ranger” who is the creator of NaturalNews.com and the Forensic Food Lab that the link takes you to. He seems to lack any scientific or medical credentials beyond a Bachelors Degree and I could find any information on the lab he used for the testing. Most of what I found on Mr. Adams was really not good. If fact words like “quack” and “conspiracy nut” seem to be used a lot. I will keep looking and anyone finds some good research on this subject I hope they post it.

    • Susan Hayes

      April 24, 2014 at 7:36 am

      Also, ref. Wikipedia, this “Health Ranger” is an “AIDS denialist,
      9/11 Truther, a Birther, endorsed conspiracy theories surrounding the
      Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting” and other questionable theories.
      He just doesn’t seem to be very credible.

  5. Teresa

    April 24, 2014 at 6:31 am

    Please don’t let the lack of “credentials” on Mike Adams fool you. I have been following him for years and he has proven to be sincere and honest in his dealings. He has taken upon himself to do this testing with no backing from any industry and he reveals all his findings for free. His lab is on par with university labs. He has posted several articles explaining his background, training and explaining his lab testing at his Natural News website. And also remember, the scientists that have brought us “frankenfood” for ourselves and our pets have all kinds of impressive “credentials” after their names and I don’t trust them as far as I can throw them!

  6. MELISSA STURM

    April 24, 2014 at 11:59 am

    I MUST TAKE ISSUE WITH THIS TESTING FACILITY. THE FOLLOWING IS STATED ON THE WEBSITEIN ANSWER TO THE QUESTIONS IF THESE ARE NATURALLY OCCURRING:
    As proof of this, consider the fact that rice grown in China is often heavily contaminated with lead, cadmium and mercury while rice grown in the USA is incredibly clean, with virtually zero levels of those same heavy metals. If heavy metals were “naturally occurring” in all rice, then levels would be the same no matter where rice is grown. But they aren’t. This proves that much of the rice being grown in China is grown in areas which are heavily contaminated by industrial pollution containing heavy metals.
    FOR THE LAST DECADE RESEARCH HAS SHOWN SIGNIFICANT LEVELS OF ARSENIC IN THE USA RICE CROP. THIS GLARING MISSTATEMENT IN THIS RESPONSE MAKES ME QUESTION THE CREDIBILITY OF THESE FINDINGS.

  7. ellie

    April 28, 2014 at 8:59 pm

    I cringe whenever I see the “treat” section in department stores as well as pet stores and drug stores. Some of those “rawhide” and other “treats” look almost like plastic! Why do people just blindly trust huge corporations that care nothing about them or their pet? I find it hard to believe that some pets can survive even one package of these treats and chews. Doesn’t anyone read ingredient lists anymore? We don’t know for sure what is in any pet product but even the listed ingredients are enough to make you wonder what on earth these companies are feeding our pets!

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