Dog’S Food Containing Bone Meal And Other Meat By-Products Linked To High Levels Of Fluoride

[Nienke]

Dog Food Comparison Shows High Fluoride Levels (Page 1)

Dog Food Comparison Shows High Fluoride Levels: Fluoride and Osteosarcoma (p2)

Dog Food Comparison Shows High Fluoride Levels: References (p3)

Dog Food Contaminated with Levels of Fluoride Above EPA's Legal Limit for Humans (p4)

http://www.ewg.org/pets/fluorideindogfood

[Cuban]

Bonemeal (ground up bones to form a powder) are a great (from a manufacturer's point of view) filler used to bulk out pet food, that fact that it needs to be cooked to maintain a long shelf life and so is less digestible within the dog's stomach is countered by the massively increased surface area of a powder.

I would expect that as the pet-food-pulp passes from stomach to intestines much more quickly than would a normally eaten raw bone 'meal' that needs to spend longer in the high-acid environment of the stomach and so under goes a chemical change in the stomach that a pet-food-meal does not before being absorbed in the intestine.

Also bonemeal does nothing good for the teeth and gums that suitable raw bones provide by physical cleaning as they are eaten.

[topt]

Hi Nienke, when I try to access the link it comes up as Error 404 Page not Found. I then googled it - is this the report they did in 2009 or an updated one?

[Nienke]

Try this: http://www.ewg.org/search/site/Dog%20Food%20Comparison%20Shows%20High%20Fluoride%20Levels

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