In the wake of an FDA alert halting the importation of contaminated vegetable proteins that caused kidney failure and death in dogs, new evidence points to a deadly combination.Acid has now been linked to dog kidney failure and death in dogs.Researchers in the United States and Canada believe that melamine, a chemical used to make plastic may have mixed with another toxic agent, cyanuric acid, producing deadly crystals.The FDA confirmed that rice protein and wheat gluten from has been China tainted by cyanuric acid as well as melamine.Once the now deadly combo of melamine and cyanuric acid were added to pet urine, killer crystals were determined to form within a matter of hours in laboratory experiments.The crystals can block tubes from the kidneys to the bladder by filling those tubes with melamine-like crystals.With the FDA confirming the reported deaths of more than 2200 dogs as a result of eating poisonous commercial dog food, this latest revelation is a likely indicator of an ever widening problem for the dog food industry.The latest dog food recall is the biggest recall in history but is not the first due to contaminated dog food causing sickness and death in dogs.For example, as recently as… Read full this story
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