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04-01-2007, 08:07 AM | #1 (permalink) |
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Rep Power: 35 | Vitamin D the real culprit in the Pet Food Recall? I think this is good for the tanning business if you keep trying to educate. The medical world would rather you take Vitamin D supplements or pills to get you higher levels. There is one company that is even using the controversial nano proccess to pump up milk with a lot of vitamin d. Why not just tan moderately and make sure your cat or dog gets the needed time out in the sun? Barking up wrong tree in pet food recall? Lawyer claims culprit is vitamin D By ALAN CAIRNS, SUN MEDIA As the poisoned pet food crisis widened yesterday with the recall of a dry food, a Toronto lawyer leading a $60-million class-action negligence suit against a Guelph company fears scientists might be barking up the wrong tree. With suspicions in the Menu Foods poisoning shifting from animopterin rat poison to melamine used in Asian fertilizers, lawyer David Himelfarb said suspect food should be "immediately" tested for excessive vitamin D. Himelfarb said the kidney failure seen in the Menu Foods case is "exactly" the same as symptoms that left a Whitby woman's dog seriously ill in 2005. The woman, Janet Grixti, alleges in a statement of claim filed in Superior Court of Ontario that her chocolate Labrador Mocha became ill after it was fed Royal Canin pet food with excessive amounts of vitamin D. 10 TIMES NORMAL "We have taken hundreds of samples of (Royal Canin) food from across the GTA. I can't give you accurate numbers ... but there is an awful lot of (vitamin D) ... some tests have shown more than 10 times the normal amount ... might even be more," said Himelfarb, who is on the class-action case with lawyer Joe Rochon. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has received 8,800 complaints of dog and cats deaths or illness. No corresponding statistics are kept in Canada. But after receiving 1,000 telephone calls and e-mails from concerned pet owners, Himelfarb suggests that the poisoning tragedy is much bigger than it appears. "There could be many thousands," Himelfarb said. Vitamin D is essential to a healthy diet for dogs and cats, Himelfarb said, but excessive amounts cause "total (kidney) failure." High levels of vitamin premixes are added to dog and cat food to offset vitamin destruction during heating and shelf storage, Grixti alleges in a statement of claim. While most vitamins break down, vitamin D "remains in full strength," it is alleged. None of Grixti's allegations have been tested in court. Royal Canin has not filed a statement of defence. Royal Canin admits excess levels of vitmain D3 led to the recall of seven vet-only products in March 2006, but its web site assures its foods "are safe" and unaffected by the Menu Foods recall. Meanwhile, scientists still seek answers to the lethal poison which two-weeks ago forced Mississauga-based Menu Foods to recall 60 million containers of wet dog and cat food. CHINESE WHEAT GLUTEN Nestle Purina Petcare Co. yesterday recalled batches of American-made Alpo Prime Cuts in Gravy wet dog food it says contains Chinese wheat gluten bought from the same American company which supplied Menu Foods. Tainted wheat gluten also prompted Hills-Pet Nutrition to recall Prescription Diet m/d Feline dry cat food, the first dry food recall. // |
04-03-2007, 02:53 PM | #2 (permalink) |
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Rep Power: 35 | Re: Vitamin D the real culprit in the Pet Food Recall? http://www.nationalledger.com/artman...72612511.shtml Pet Food Recall: PETA Warns That Dry Food at Risk From Vitamin D-3 By Lynda Johnson Apr 3, 2007 The pet food recall has owners' worried sick and wondering exactly what is in dog and cat food and treats that is making the animals sick. In a Tuesday update, PETA is asking the FDA to investigate vitamin D3 as a possible culprit in the pet food recall, a release said on Tuesday. The animal rights organization notes that FDA, Menu Foods, and PETA have all received complaints about sick and dying animals who only ate dry food that did not contain wheat gluten. The group is now looking at vitamin D3 based on independent research, a case in [COLOR=blue! important][COLOR=blue! important]Canada[/color][/color] from last year, and the similarities in symptoms. Pet Food Recall: [COLOR=blue! important][COLOR=blue! important]PETA[/color][/color] Warns That Dry Food at Risk From Vitamin D-3 The group claims that evidence from reputable laboratories indicates that an excessive amount of vitamin D in pet food may be to blame. Vitamin D overdoses produce symptoms similar to those seen in animals that recently have become sick or died after consuming only dry foods. *** The [COLOR=blue! important][COLOR=blue! important]press [COLOR=blue! important]release[/color][/color][/color] states: PETA Vice President Bruce Friedrich made an urgent appeal to Stephen Sundlof, director of the FDA’s Center for [COLOR=blue! important][COLOR=blue! important]Veterinary [COLOR=blue! important]Medicine[/color][/color][/color], asking the agency to refocus its investigation beyond wheat gluten—which is used almost exclusively in wet foods—and consider other possible contaminants. In his letter, Friedrich points out the following:1) Last year, a manufacturing error in the production of Royal Canin pet food resulted in excessive amounts of vitamin D3 in the food, causing hypercalcemia, an abnormally high level of calcium in the blood that caused animals’ kidneys to malfunction. 2) Research in endocrinology at Cleveland Clinic has confirmed that high levels of vitamin D3 in animals’ blood causes kidney malfunction. 3) Symptoms associated with excessive vitamin D3 intake appear identical to the symptoms that are being reported in dogs and cats now, leading PETA to believe that vitamin D3 may be implicated in the current spate of pet food contamination. On Monday, PETA called on FDA Commissioner Andrew von Eschenbach to resign over the agency’s mishandling of the [COLOR=blue! important][COLOR=blue! important]pet [COLOR=blue! important]food[/color][/color][/color] crisis. "The FDA is feeding the public a line, and the American people’s faith in the government is dying along with dogs and cats,” says Friedrich. “The agency’s failure to pinpoint the cause of death for animals who have eaten only [COLOR=blue! important][COLOR=blue! important]dry [COLOR=blue! important]food[/color][/color][/color] is cause for the commissioner to resign or be fired." More info is available at www.PETA.Org |
04-03-2007, 02:55 PM | #3 (permalink) |
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Rep Power: 35 | Re: Vitamin D the real culprit in the Pet Food Recall? I hope this helps to get the general public learning about Vitamin D3 and not be so quick to get their daily dose from supplements instead of the sun or tanning. |
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