Too much of a good thing can also be harmful: A large manufacturer is now recalling its dry food.
The reason: An overdose of a certain vitamin could make dogs sick.
Dog owners
always want the best for their beloved four-legged friends.
They therefore optimally adapt their food to the
age
and
weight of their dogs
.
But what if the
food contains
too much of a good
thing
?
Verden - For the beloved, four-legged companion, there is no longer just
wet and dry food
in the bowl.
“Juicy sliced meat with rabbit and carrots”, “Chicken pie” and “Beef in jelly” are on the menu of many
dogs
.
At the same time, their owners attach increasing importance to a
balanced diet
and want to meet the demands of their dogs.
Not only are they available in different portions in cans, trays and bags
Treats are now also entirely based on the different phases of a dog's life as well as its weight
too carved.
In
addition to
"Junior" and "Senior" food
, the well-known
Pedigree brand
also offers dog food that is rich in zinc and calcium and thus supports the digestion of the four-legged friends.
Other formulas are said to have a beneficial effect on the health of the joints or, for example, on "shiny fur and vital skin".
Mars Petcare
, the company to which
Pedigree
belongs, also
offers
a special
“Vital” dry food
especially
for adult but smaller
dogs
that weigh less than ten kilograms
.
Additives such as
iodine, zinc, selenium
and
vitamins A, B, D
and
E
are supposed to take
care of the dog's
coat, teeth
and wellbeing.
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But now the group has found that one
This
particular
batch of
dry food
does not meet its “quality and safety standards”.
Too much of a good thing is never good - that applies to humans and also to four-legged friends.
The
dry food
contains too high a dose of a vitamin, which
could harm
the
dogs
: "Due to an excessive vitamin D content, the food can cause discomfort in dogs if consumed for a long time," said
Mars Petcare
and calls the
Pedigree product
back.
This Pedigree product should not be fed further
Not least because of the
online trade
, it can be assumed that the
dry feed
concerned
was available nationwide in Germany.
Dog owners who
have already bought
the
"Pedigree Vital dry food for small dogs under ten kilograms"
with the
best
before
date November 12, 2021
should no longer
feed
this to their dogs.
Specifically, the
product affected
by the
recall
is the
1.4 kilogram bags of
the
“Adult with beef”
variety
with the
EAN code 5900951254727
.
All trading partners have already taken the products out of sale, the company announced.
Furthermore, it is "an isolated incident", so that no other
Mars Petcare
and
Pedigree products are
affected and can be fed without hesitation.
Affected customers can either
deu.mars.com/kontakt
or under the
telephone number 04231/943 250
from
Monday to Friday
each from
9.00 to 19.00 indicator
at the
Customer
Report.
Recall: Too much vitamin D can make dogs sick
Among other things, the online portal
produktrueckätze.de
reports on the "dangerously excessive
vitamin D content
" in
pedigree dry food
:
Jürgen Zentek, Professor of Animal Nutrition at the Free University of Berlin,
told the
Stiftung Warentest
that vitamin D intake in general should not exceed ten times the normal requirement.
An oversupply promotes high calcium and phosphorus levels in the blood, vascular calcification, polyuria and bloody diarrhea.
# RECALL |
#WARNING |
Dangerously excessive vitamin D content: #MARS PETCARE recalls batch #PEDIGREE #dry food for small dogs https://t.co/EKrwr4DDrd
- produeckruf.de (@reckrufportal) December 21, 2020
Too much
vitamin D has
the opposite
effect of
what
Pedigree has set
itself
the goal of
dry food in
dogs
.
In the worst case, Zentek told Stiftung Warentest, after long-term daily addition of high amounts of vitamin D, kidney calcifications could be observed.
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