Pain killer Drug Found in Pet Food
June 6th, 2007 by jacky
A new threat to our pet food supply has surfaced while we focus on the ever growing amount of pet food recalled from poisonous melamine and wheat gluten. Now, acetaminophen, the drug used in Tylenol and other over the counter pain medication has been detected in canned pet food by a testing lab in Houston, Tx. Experts are now warning that the contaminated pet food scare could be far worse than first thought.
The Doctor who runs the lab, Dr. Ernest Lykissa, believes that his findings of pet food contaminated with acetaminophen, and pet food contamination problems are far from over. This latest findings have started a new federal investigation into more contaminated pet food!
Acetaminophen is deadly to dogs and cats. One pill can kill a cat! According to Dr. Lykissa’s lab, EperTox, at least a half dozen samples of pet food tested, contained the drug!
The Deer Park lab conducts thousands of tests on pet food and in more than two dozen samples, Dr. Lykissa says either cyanuric acid or acetaminophen were found. The highest concentration came in from a pet food manufacturer. The level of acetaminophen contamination was 2 milligrams for every gram of dog food! A two milligram amount of the pain killer is enough to make a dog sick and even kill a cat, according to a local Deer Park veterinarian!The results were so troubling that the lab manager, Donna Coneley verified the tests.
Due to a confidentiality agreement, the lab can not reveal which pet food samples tested positive for the drugs. At least one sample was Pet Pride cat food. All test results were reported to the pet food makers, which should have been reported to the FDA.
According to the lab manager, Donna Coneley,
No one from the FDA has investigated their positive findings. In fact, to date not a single government inspector has asked to look at one of the tainted pet food samples tested in this laboratory.
For now Dr. Lykissa considers the quality of pet food questionable.
An FDA spokesperson says the agency wants to test the samples themselves.
Some information contained in this article was reported by By Laura Whitley, 6/05/07 of abc13/KTRK in DEER PARK, TX.
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