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05/26/2007 BREAKING NEWS: China Corners Market on Vitamin Additives
Special to The Washington Post by Peter Kovacs, May 10, 2007
Lost amid the anxiety surrounding the tainted U.S. pet food supply is this sobering reality: It’s not just pet owners who should be worried. The uncontrolled distribution of low-quality imported food ingredients, mainly from China, poses a grave threat to public health worldwide.
Essential ingredients, such as vitamins used in many packaged foods, arrive at U.S. ports from China and, as recent news reports have underscored, are shipped without inspection to food and beverage distributors and manufacturers. Although they are used in relatively small quantities, these ingredients carry enormous risks for American consumers. One pound of tainted wheat gluten could, if undetected, contaminate as much as a thousand pounds of food.
The entire article can be read at:
Another article describing other contaminated Chinese food & health care related imports into the United States:
Note from Nature’s Logic – Nature’s Logic line of pet foods is the only commercial brand of pet food in which 100% of all nutrients, including vitamins and minerals come from the whole food ingredients. Nature’s Logic uses no added chemically synthesized vitamins or minerals due to their known potential toxicity and contaminants. With the news today that many of the vitamin supplements consumed in the USA are sourced from China, this is another reason to use caution when selecting what your pets are fed. All other commercial brands of pet foods contain up to 26 chemically synthesized vitamins and minerals, many of which may be sourced from China even without the pet food manufacturer’s knowledge.
Here is a typical ingredient panel of a “natural” pet food containing many synthetic vitamins and minerals which could have been imported from China without inspection before going to manufacturers according to the article above. This particular example of a pet food has a total of 40 ingredients; 14 are food and 26 are chemically synthesized vitamins and minerals.
Chicken Meal, Ground Brown Rice, Rice Bran, Chicken Fat (preserved with Mixed Tocopherols and Ascorbyl Palmitate), Ground Oats, Beet Pulp, Flaxseed, Fish Meal, Natural Chicken Flavor, Lecithin, Fish Oil, Potassium Chloride, Salt, Dicalcium Phosphate, Choline Chloride, Calcium Ascorbate (source of Vitamin C), Zinc Amino Acid Chelate, Iron Amino Acid Chelate, Yucca Schidigera Extract, Biotin, Manganese Amino Acid Chelate, Cobalt Amino Acid Chelate, Calcium Carbonate, Vitamin E Supplement, Vitamin A Supplement, Calcium Pantothenate, Niacin, Pyridoxine Hydrochloride (B6), Thiamine Mononitrate (B1), Vitamin B12 Supplement, Vitamin D3 Supplement, Riboflavin Supplement, DL-Methionine, Copper Amino Acid Chelate, Menadione Sodium Bisulfite Complex (source of Vitamin K activity), Folic Acid, Sodium Selenite, Calcium Iodate.
Here is an example of a Nature’s Logic diet containing 100% natural ingredients with no added chemically synthesized vitamins or minerals.
Chicken Meal, Millet, Chicken Fat, Montmorillonite, Brewer's Yeast, Flaxseed, Dried Egg Product, Spray Dried Chicken Liver, Pumpkin Seed, Animal Plasma, Kelp, Natural Flavoring, Cottage Cheese, Suncured Alfalfa Meal, Egg Shell Meal, Avocado, Chicory Root, Tomato Powder, Almonds, Spray Dried Cod Liver Oil, Apple Powder, Blueberry Powder, Apricot Powder, Carrot Powder, Pumpkin Powder, Cranberry Powder, Broccoli Powder, Spinach Powder, Parsley, Artichoke, Rosemary, Dried Lactobacillus Acidophilus Fermentation Product, Dried Lactobacillus Casei Fermentation Product, Dried Bifidobacterium Bifidium Fermentation Product, Dried Enterococcus Faecium Fermentation Product, Dried Bacillus Coagulans Fermentation Product, Dried Pineapple Extract, Dried Aspergillus Niger Fermentation Extract, Dried Aspergillus Oryzae Fermentation Extract, Dried Trichoderma Longibrachtium Fermentation Extract, Mixed Tocopherols.
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