Since this thread has both lists on it it has the most recent updated info I wanted to add the response that members got from Taste of the Wild and the Chicken Soup companies .....
MaddiesMommie contacted Taste of The Wild company and Enlighten60 contacted Chicken Soup, apparently they both received the identical e-mail response:
Dear Marcina,
Thank you for your inquiry.
The Chicken Soup for the Pet Lover’s Soul products are excellent quality formulas. They provide optimal nutrition for overall good health and do not contain anything harmful.
Fish meal is required by law to be preserved with ethoxyquin. Ethoxyquin is most effective at preventing rancidity in the highly volatile fish meal. Rancidity in ingredients can lead to severe illness.
Most of the ethoxyquin is destroyed in the cooking process, requiring other preservatives to be used. Tests for ethoxyquin are run routinely on Chicken Soup for the Pet Lover’s Soul products. The results are typically less than 2ppm. The amount allowed, and considered to be safe, by the FDA is 75ppm.
Fish meal is an important ingredient that provides quality amino acids and omega-3 fatty acids. These nutrients are important for all aspects of a healthy life, including great skin and coat, control of inflammation and a strong immune system.
Sincerely,
Dr. Brookshire
My response to this e-mail:
I must say that looks like typical damage control from a company when trying to skirt an issue.....The pet food manufactures on the safe list appeared to have no problem having their fish meal supplier apply for the Special Permit that allows them to use an alternative preservative other than ethoxyquin. So to claim it is the law that they have to use it is a half truth.....
The author of these articles has an 8 yr. old dog with bone cancer, the vet and the author firmly believe it was brought on by eating pet food with ethoxyquin. So to say you can consume a "safe" level of a toxic substance is ridiculous. What Chicken Soup reps fail to mention is the fact that a pet is exposed to ethoxyquin on a daily basis, not from a one time event. Therefore the exposure of their "safe" level now becomes a question of a cumulative level....
If you look at the list of foods using ethoyquin most are manufactured by the Diamond Pet Food Co. and all of them claim they do use ethoxyqion. In 2008 Diamond was also responsible for the many deaths of pets from using melamine ....
I wouldn't trust any foods made by the Diamond company, they can't be trusted. There are far to many companies out there that make good quality foods and have a better track record for safety....Why risk it....
This had been a very enlightening and sad thread.....This is very important info that needs to be out there, if one of our pets where to start having kidney or liver issues or to come down with cancer we would probably never suspect it was from the food they where eating......
Sometimes it feels like I'm playing Russian roulette when I pick up a bag of pet food.....
And I would like to send out a huge
THANK YOU!!! to Susan Thixton from Truth about Pet Food for starting this search concerning this ingredient, without her I wouldn't have had a clue.......