How bad is ethoxyquin for dogs?

[Princes mom]

Originally Posted by Ladymom

I would never feed Lady a food that contained Ethoxyquin. Does your Yorkie have liver disease? It is even more dangerous since the liver must process toxins.

Toxicology of BHA

Here are a couple of high quality, low protein foods:

Holistique Blendz Adult Dog (fish)

WELLNESS® - Healthy Dog and Cat Food

Do you use the Wellness small breed? Wellness sounds like a great product.
I am thinking about picking up a bag ot the dry today. I like how they posted "No artificail preservatives."

[cheeselover8481]

Originally Posted by Princes mom

Can you copy and paste, or post the link that says Blue Buffalo isn't that great? I can't seem to find it. Prince has been eating Blue Buff and Solid Gold for at least a year. I've emailed both companies to ask if they use ethoxyquin, BHA or the other one...I forgot the name. Anyway, I'm waiting to hear back from them.
I was planning to switch from Blue Buff anyway because Price will not eat the life source bits, which contains most of the healthy ingrediants. Blue Buff said the the black bits sets Blue Buff apart from the other permium dry foods, but if your dog won't eat them...
Is Solid Gold Wee Bits ok?
It pays to read the fine print...

They didn't say the food is bad. They just say it includes too many grains. The link is Dog Food Reviews - Blue Buffalo Chicken & Brown Rice for Adults - Powered by ReviewPost.

Btw, mine doesn't eat the black pieces either. Haha...they're so funny sometimes.

[Princes mom]

Originally Posted by cheeselover8481

They didn't say the food is bad. They just say it includes too many grains. The link is Dog Food Reviews - Blue Buffalo Chicken & Brown Rice for Adults - Powered by ReviewPost.

Btw, mine doesn't eat the black pieces either. Haha...they're so funny sometimes.

Thanks for the link!!

[Princes mom]

My emails and responses from Solid Gold and Wellness:

Does Solid Gold use ethoxyquin, butylated hydroxytoluene or butylated hydroxyanisole in the Wee Bits formula? What kind of preservatives are used?

Thank you for your email. We do not use any chemical preservatives in any of our foods. Our foods are preserved with a natural tocopherol based preservative called Natur-Ox.

Best regards,

Solid Gold

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Thank you for taking the time to write about Wellness® Dry Dog Food.

We are putting your sample in the mail today. We hope your pet enjoys it. Feel
free to give us a call after feeding to tell us how your pet likes it!

Our foods are preserved using mixed tocopherols. This a mixture of differing
forms of Vitamin E most often used as a preservative or antioxidant to stabilize
fats to prevent them from becoming rancid. Their stabilizing effect depends on
the type of fat used.

Thanks again for contacting us.

Heather Rowe
Representative
Consumer Affairs

[Princes mom]

Response from Blue Buffalo:

Thank you for your interest in BLUE. We stabilize all our fats, fish, and oils with natural, mixed tocopherols, vitamin A & C, oil of rosemary, and naturally occurring citric acid. Ethoxyquin is not added to any of our ingredients or formulas, which is verified by the ingredient panels. We take every precaution to ensure that our fish meal is ethoxiquin free and preserved only with natural preservatives.



Thank you for your concern. Please feel free to contact me with any further questions.


Regards,
Kim

The Blue Buffalo Co

[dogears]

I found that you have to specifically ask the company if their suppliers use Ethoxyquin otherwise they will not disclose it.

[Yorkielove1]

Its funny I havent heard anyone on here saying they feed their dog FROMM? or is it FRON? I dont know... has anyone heard of it?

[dogears]

I've heard of it but haven't given the girls any.
Fromm Family Foods - Gourmet Pet Food, Naturally Holistic
They received 3 stars (classic version) 4 stars (gold version) 5 stars (four star version) from dogfoodanalysis.