Re: Pet Foods containing acetomenaphin

Tests Find Pain Killer in Pet Food
Acetaminophen Dangerous to Dogs, Fatal to Cats in Small Doses

By Lisa Wade McCormick
ConsumerAffairs.Com

June 8, 2007

There’s more troubling news for pet owners, who have worried for the past few months if the food they give their dogs and cats is safe. Or tainted with the chemical melamine, which can cause kidney failure or death.

A Texas laboratory says it’s uncovered the pain killer acetaminophen in samples of pet food.

According to a report by KTRK in Houston, technicians at the medical testing laboratory, EperTox, discovered the popular pain killer is at least a half dozen pet food samples.

The Deer Park, Texas, laboratory did not disclose the brands of the foods tested because of a confidentiality agreement.

"We don't really how big and how involved this problem is right now,” the lab’s Dr. Ernest Lykissa told KTRK. “We are only uncovering the beginning of it.”

The lab tested more than a thousand samples of different pet food for the past month, according to KTRK. In more than two dozen samples, the lab discovered either cyanuric acid or acetaminophen in the foods.

The highest level of acetaminophen found in the samples was 2 milligrams per gram of dog food. weblink:www.consumeraffairs.com/news04/2007/06/pet_food_recall56.html