Pentobarbital is a common anesthetic agent. This is a lawyer DRIVEN event that promises owners money too. I told you. It’s like saying there is arsenic in my food. True, arsenic is a lethal poison and it is in your food and your pet’s food and water. There is this basic concept called DOSE. I’ve worked with these phony cases for most of my career.
It’s a problem with bureaucrats that they think the technological ability to detect something at smaller and smaller levels is matched by the ability to remove the pollutant to smaller and smaller levels. However, in the case of something that shouldn’t be there at all, it may be more than just a matter of how many insect parts are allowable in your peanut butter.
So common that it just naturally shows up in the pet food, got it.
So, as the article suggests, Smuckers is sourcing animal carcesses that are tainted with the drug. A reasonable Hypothesis. That just can not be, eh? Now, whether the soucing of said contaminated carcesses was with Smuckers knowledge remains to be seen. Whether they had knowledge or not, it sounds as though Smuckers has a problem.