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No display reqirement of ingredients or regulations about dog food

Thanks to the knowlege of the additives in our food, we are becomming aware of many toxic materials added in the dog food, such as BHA, BHT, defoliant, formalin, mercury, disinfectant, artificial colorings and flavors and other chemicals. However, there are still more additives contained in a dog food without notice that are doubtfull of their safty as a food due to no regulations for the ingredients display and for the raw materials. Compared with the human food guarded by the regulations of the MInistry of Welfare, the dog food is under no regulations at all. Thus the owners of dogs must pay much more attention to the ingredients and the manufacturing processes of the dog food. It is even said that the owner has all the responsibility for the choice of his dog food. Here is a shocking column from the U.S.A. that I found on the internet. The raw materials for the pet food are the kinds of meat that are strictly prohibited to be contained in the food for human beings. They use meat from animals died of cancer, parasite and virus infection and so forth. And because it is not safe to process such meat as it is, they sterilize it with some gasoline, motor oil, propyl alcohol, benzene, penicilline and so on. Biproducts from a slaughter-house, crushed feathers of birds, dried blood, things like fertilizers and even pet meat are known to be used for a pet food. This column was almost unbelievable to me. However, a bureau of investigation in Canada once reported penicillin contamination of an amount beyond safety in a dog food. Knowing the extremely low cost of a dog food, I think it is worthwhile to be doubtfull about it.

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