Ethoxyquin and Fish Meal

[wrangler1]

Ethoxyquin is a preservative in fish meal. If there is no fish anything in the food...you are probably good....

If you buy a quality dog food it should have Salmon Oil in it over canola or flaxseed....thus the manufacturer better state that it is Ethoxyquin free.

I wish people would stop the hysteria about this. The dog food companies get an earful about this and I really can't think of one that doesn't use Naturox or something similar on fish meal. Was is it an issue? Yes it was...Is it now, not really. They generally buy from the same group of suppliers.

All this nonsense about the Coast Guard and permits is just internet BS. just like corn allergies, flax destroying intestines and beet pulp clogging things.

[chowder]

i have heard that commercial chicken feed is very E heavy. and that it is possible even if your dog food does not have fish, there is enough E in the chickens from eating the E heavy chicken food... your dog food might contain E.

i dont know how accurate this is.

Commercial chickens are fed chicken feed preserved with ethoxyquin. Residue is found in the highest amount in chicken liver, body fat, and egg yolks with lesser amounts in the breast muscles. Unless you are buying organic chickens, they have probably contained some amounts of ethoxyquin when YOU ate them and fed them to your dogs. The same applies to beef and pork.

It is also routinely used post- harvest on pears and apples, and is used as a preservative in spices like chili powder and paprika. Ethoxyquin was found in paprika samples at levels up to 63 ppm and in chili powder samples at levels up to 20 ppm. Here is a website with several good research articles on the subject.


Ethoxyquin :: analysis

The same is true of cows, cows milk, and pork. It is widely used in most animal feed worldwide. In tests of dog food, it was supposedly found in TRACE amounts in every single brand but in such minute amounts that it didn't have to be reported since levels up to 75ppm are considered acceptable.

I would imagine that if you tested the blood of most humans, you could find trace levels in most humans at this point, just like every other chemical produced now.

[wrangler1]

Commercial chickens are fed chicken feed preserved with ethoxyquin. Residue is found in the highest amount in chicken liver, body fat, and egg yolks with lesser amounts in the breast muscles. Unless you are buying organic chickens, they have probably contained some amounts of ethoxyquin when YOU ate them and fed them to your dogs. The same applies to beef and pork.

It is also routinely used post- harvest on pears and apples, and is used as a preservative in spices like chili powder and paprika. Ethoxyquin was found in paprika samples at levels up to 63 ppm and in chili powder samples at levels up to 20 ppm. Here is a website with several good research articles on the subject.


Ethoxyquin :: analysis


The same is true of cows, cows milk, and pork. It is widely used in most animal feed worldwide. In tests of dog food, it was supposedly found in TRACE amounts in every single brand but in such minute amounts that it didn't have to be reported since levels up to 75ppm are considered acceptable.

I would imagine that if you tested the blood of most humans, you could find trace levels in most humans at this point, just like every other chemical produced now.

I think this whole thing with chickens and ethoxyquin got started with a study in early 1980's where chickens were purposely fed feed with ethoxyquin and the telephone game started from there, just like corn and allergies. I certainly don't think its a good idea to have ethoxyquin anywhere but the reality is not the pandemic it is thought to be.