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570 Varieties Of Pet Food Ingredients
The non-profit making Consumer Wellness Centre (US), today published a detailed nutritional review of 570 pet food ingredients commonly found in pet food products (both canned and dry).

The list has been created through a joint effort between pet food formulator Dr. Lisa Newman, N.D., Ph.D. (www.Azmira.com), consumer health advocate Mike Adams (www.HealthRanger.org) and the Consumer Wellness Centre. The complete list has been posted at natural health news site NewsTarget.com.

To create the report, the ingredients of 448 popular pet food products sold in the United States were analysed and organised the ingredients by frequency of appearance. A nutritional analysis and comment for each ingredient was then provided.

Four lists were created:

# Pet food ingredients by rating (from 5 stars down to 1 star, with 5 stars indicating the best quality ingredients).


# Pet food ingredients by frequency (sorted by how frequently they appear in pet food products, from 96% down to 1%).


# Pet food ingredients listed alphabetically (to make it easier for consumers to reference ingredients they're curious about).


# Worst pet food ingredients (which lists all the 1-star ingredients, indicating low- quality or hazardous ingredients).


The outspoken consumer health advocate Mike Adams, Executive Director, Consumer Wellness Center, said:

"Given the atrocious track record of pet food safety in the United States, we felt an urgent need to publish a tell-all reference guide that had the courage to reveal the truth about commonly used pet food ingredients. Consumers desperately need to know what's really in their pet food, and there is an urgent need for the pet food industry to clean up its act and stop poisoning dogs, cats and other pets with toxic ingredients that cause cancer, diabetes and other diseases."

source: www.ukpets.co.uk