Cyanuric acid has been linked to the Chinese melamine contamination and is a part of the imported toxic soup which has sickened and killed thousands of dogs and cats across the country.
But it’s ten cents cheaper. And that’s all that matters!
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From my non-chemist viewpoint, melamine and cyanuric acid is essentially distilled urine. Now that’s how we keep the price down!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyanuric_acid Cyanuric acid (CYA) was first synthesized by Wöhler in 1829 by decomposing urea and uric acid at high temperature.[1] Today industrial manufacture of CYA for use as a precursor in the manufacture of such products as bleach, disinfectant and herbicide is widely achieved via urea pyrolysis (thermal decomposition) which is described as a very diverse and complex process. The production of CYA and ammelide commence simultaneously at approximately 175 °C, in the following two reactions using biuret and iso-cyanic acid produced in earlier stages of the thermal decomposition of urea H2N-CO-NH-CO-NH2(m) + HNCO(g) → CYA(s) + NH3(g) H2N-CO-NH-CO-NH2(m) + HNCO(g) → ammelide(s) + H2O(g) As temperature exceeds 190 °C, other reactions begin to dominate the process. The first appearance of ammeline occurs prior to 225 °C and is suspected also to occur from biuret decomposition but is produced at a slower rate than that of CYA or ammelide, by the following reaction H2N-CO-NH-CO-NH2(m) + HNCO(g) → ammeline + 2 H2O The first appearance of melamine occurs between 325 °C and 350 °C and only in very small quantities
We switched from what we were using to a couple different brands, each time the recall would expand. Finally went to Natural Balance, and then they had a recall. One of our dogs never did get used to the Natural Balance kibble, and seemed to be having gastric problems even though we weren’t feeding her a recalled product.
SO....after getting up with a sick dog a couple times in the middle of the night, we are now making our own dog food.
I thought it would be harder, but we hit the discount store on the way home from church on Sunday and buy 10 lbs of chicken for 5 bucks, then add veggies and rice. We cook our food because we’ve tried raw diets before with our dogs and that doesn’t seem to agree with them.
Did I ever think I’d be making our own dog food...no...I don’t even like to cook for us that much, LOL. But we’re doing it, at least till the “whole truth” is disclosed, if it ever is.
I’m holding onto a bag of Iams chicken & rice because my ate some and puked voluminous amounts several hrs later. I’d never seen her puke like that.
Soooooo, either it contains unlisted products
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There are more types of contaminated products than they have admitted...
This and the Chinese toothpaste recall..
My dad is a Belgian now US citizen who grew up in China and said to me on Sunday that there is imbedded in the China psyche to steal it if you possibly can.
Anyway, I am not purchasing, knowingly, products from China even if I have to pay more. My dog is eating Kibbles N Bits dry food and seems to be fine so far.
I’m amazed that everyone seems to think this is a cost-cutting manuever by the Chinese instead of a test run.
Wow. My dog has been eating Pedigree soft food mixed with Iams Lamb & Rice dry food since the recall—he used to eat the Iams wet food with the Iams dry food. Anyway, he developed severe bloody diarrhea and vomiting on Tuesday night and has been on intravenous fluids, antibiotics, Pepcid and another medication since that time. Vet says he had hemorragic gastro enteritis. He’s better now, but for a time on Wednesday, he was so lethargic, we didn’t think he was going to make it. He’s an 8-year-old black Lab. He refused to even look at food—I was trying to give him his medicine orally with some cheese—and anybody who has a Lab knows that when a Lab isn’t interested in food, you know he’s got to be seriously ill. Anyway, he is getting the IV port taken out today and should be home for good this afternoon. This whole pet food recall has me wondering if his food could have triggered the HGE.
Oh dear. This is the first I’ve heard of an IAMS recall. My little cocker eats IAMS adult formula mini chunk. She’s fine. Anyone know more about this brand?
Does anybody know if dry Pedigree is affected at all by the recall? My beagle seems to be OK. We stopped giving her the Ol Roy snack sticks a long time ago.
I forwarded it to people I know in Denver. Wasn’t Iams a part of the original recall, too?
In another era, it would’ve been an act of war to send poison over to be used in another country’s food supply. How do we know this isn’t an attack?
I have another dog, that lived with her in the same environment, same treats, etc. The only difference is that we fed Tucker IAMS WEIGHT CONTROL dry food (the blue bag) vs. the mini nuggets the other one eats.
IAMS keeps insisting that there is nothing wrong with the dry food, but asked for a sample to analyze(we do not have the original bag because we put the food in containers so the ants don’t invade the food). We are also having an autopsy done on her kidneys. Does anyone know of a place to find an independent lab to analyze the food?
Iams used to be a very high-quality food until some years ago when it was bought out. I think my vet informed me of this and I stopped using the brand at that time. I switched to Nutro and was unhappy to learn that it was processed in the same plant as Iams but still cost more. After the pet food scare, I switched to CANIDAE - recommended by a Freeper — quality food made in the U.S.A. and the dogs LOVE IT!