New Pet Food Warning
SHANGHAI, May 8 — A second industrial chemical that regulators have found in contaminated pet food in the United States may have also been intentionally added to animal feed by producers seeking larger profits, according to interviews with chemical industry officials here.
Three Chinese chemical makers said that producers of animal feed often purchase or seek to purchase a chemical called cyanuric acid from their factories to blend into animal feed.
Chemical producers said that it was common knowledge that for years cyanuric acid was used in animal and fish feed in China. In the United States, cyanuric acid is often used as a disinfectant in swimming pools. (source)
What the hell is this crap doing in animal feed? Now I have to read the labels for wheat gluten, melamine, and cyanuric acid?
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The worst part is that you won't even be able to tell whether there's melamine or cyanuric acid in the food we buy from the label. The manufacturers are putting it in to inflate the measures of protein content. They're cheating, so they're not going to volunteer the information.
We have to depend on the U.S. pet food companies to police themselves. It's very unsettling.