The PetFoodIndustry.com website reports that cats in many nations have actually passed away due to contracting a bird influenza from their animal food – the pressure H5N1 was discovered. Three cats in South Korean shelters have actually passed away, a number of more have actually been have actually been sickened. In Poland, twenty-five cats evaluated positive for H5N1 bird influenza, fourteen cats were euthanized, eleven more have actually passed away.
About Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza: “a subtype of the virus. It can cause severe illness and high mortality rates in domestic poultry and wild birds. The viruses can devastate poultry industries and have economic repercussions due to trade restrictions. Some varieties, including H5N1, can cross species barriers and may cause severe illnesses in mammals.”
These cat diseases and deaths imply that animal food producers in many nations were consisting of/are including poultry contaminated with the “highly pathogenic avian influenza” as components.
How could this take place? Feed grade components. Could this take place in the United States? Yes.
U.S. federal law (the Federal Food Drug and Cosmetic Act) states that any food (human or animal) which contains any part of an infected animal or animal that passed away aside from by massacre is adulterated – prohibited. Federal laws restrict non-USDA examined and passed animals from being made use of as food/food components in order to avoid bird influenza and other illness being spread out through food (human and animal food).
However, the FDA Center for Veterinary Medicine (CVM) straight disregards this federal law with animal food/animal food. The FDA CVM’s existing position: “We do not believe that the use of diseased animals or animals that died otherwise than by slaughter to make animal food poses a safety concern and we intend to continue to exercise enforcement discretion.” When asked to supply clinical proof to verify FDA CVM’s ‘belief that the use of diseased animals or animals that died otherwise than by slaughter’ postures no safety issue in animal food, the Agency stopped working to supply any science.
While FDA is the governing firm over pet food, the USDA is the governing firm over United States poultry farms that provide pet food poultry components. The USDA has numerous web pages and documents offering poultry farmers with help on what to do if their farm is contaminated. “If your flock is infected with highly pathogenic avian influenza, the U.S. Department of Agriculture will provide indemnity and compensation for some of your losses and costs.”
Of issue to U.S. animal owners, the USDA states: “Disposal methods include composting, onsite burial, incineration, rendering and landfilling.”
Yes…the USDA enables chosen flocks of extremely pathogenic bird influenza infected birds to be rendered, and the FDA enables the unhealthy animals to be consisted of in animal food/animal feed – without any caution or disclosure to animal food customers.
Just like in the United States, pet food is regularly utilized to deal with ill, non-slaughtered animals in nations all over the world (feed grade components). Though we cannot favorably validate, we presume (extremely suspect) the animal foods in South Korea and Poland (nations reporting sick/dying cats connected to infected animal food) were utilizing feed grade components (were not utilizing examined and passed poultry) which in turn contaminated the cats taking in the foods.
The Centers for Disease Control has actually kept a database of extremely pathogenic bird influenza break outs in the United States. Since January 2022, 58,791,621 birds have actually been impacted in the United States. Forty-7 states have actually recorded break outs.
Pet owners can securely presume a few of these 58 million ill birds were rendered and wound up in animal food. Which pet foods? We don’t understand. The FDA declines to need pet food producers to divulge this details to animal food customers.
Rendering must eliminate the bird influenza pathogen, nevertheless much like with other pathogens (such as Salmonella) rendering or cooking of the animal food is not a particular guarantee of safety. Kibble animal foods that consist of rendered components stay the most frequently remembered design of animal food due to pathogenic germs that made it through the animal food production procedure.
Symptoms of contaminated cats (it is unidentified if dog signs would be comparable) were labored breathing, bloody diarrhea and neurological indications.
Personal viewpoint: It is beyond my understanding to how the FDA can be so acutely mindful about animal foods infected with Salmonella while at the very same time the Agency blatantly disregards the lots of threats (consisting of extremely pathogenic bird influenza) of enabling unhealthy animals and animals that have actually passed away aside from by massacre in animal food. I personally put the FDA CVM in contact with 2 pet food making workers detected with tularemia that the Centers for Disease Control verified were exposed to this severe germs from rendered animal food components. The FDA CVM blatantly neglected that too. Are animals and pet food production workers thought about ‘disposable’ by FDA?
The old stating ‘If you play with fire, you’ll get burned’ definitely uses here. For the FDA and federal government companies all over the world to continue to permit unhealthy and non-slaughtered animals to be gotten rid of into animal food is playing with fire. Unfortunately, the ones who get burned are the animals and the production workers. Those that permit the fire – walk away untouched.
Wishing you and your animal(s) the very best,
Susan Thixton
Pet Food Safety Advocate
Author Buyer Beware, Co-Author Dinner PAWsible
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