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Health & Fitness

Byproducts in pet food

What is a byproduct anyway?

Have you ever thought about what is in your pets food?

Some of the most popular brands will include corn meal and byproducts.

Corn meal isn't the worst thing that you could give your dog however it isn't the most nutritious as a first ingredient.

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Byproducts on the other hand, I am not so sure about. Most byproducts are the left over parts after the slaughter of an animal that is not for human consumption ( chicken feet, cow intestines etc. ) This also means that there is no practices  to make sure that those parts are handled in a manner that does not gather germs and are clean and safe.

There are some standards by which the pet food industry does adhere to however..it appears to be more of a honor system and not any regulations or laws that I can find.

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If you guys do know of any...I am very interested to know. In the meanwhile..the foods that we stock on our shelves are the foods that have the protein as the first ingredient and NO byproducts.

Hope to see you soon!

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East Meadow, NY 11554

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