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« on: September 28, 2007, 09:36:32 PM » |
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Outbreaks of renal failure associated with melamine and cyanuric acid in dogs and cats in 2004 and 2007.Athens Veterinary Diagnostic Laboratory, College of Veterinary Medicine, University of Georgia, Athens, GA, 30602. cabrown@vet.uga.edu. Sixteen animals affected in 2 outbreaks of pet food-associated renal failure (2 dogs in 2004; 10 cats and 4 dogs in 2007) were evaluated for histopathologic, toxicologic, and clinicopathologic changes. All 16 animals had clinical and laboratory evidence of uremia, including anorexia, vomiting, lethargy, polyuria, azotemia, and hyperphosphatemia. Where measured, serum hepatic enzyme concentrations were normal in animals from both outbreaks. All animals died or were euthanized because of severe uremia. Distal tubular lesions were present in all 16 animals, and unique polarizable crystals with striations were present in distal tubules or collecting ducts in all animals. The proximal tubules were largely unaffected. Crystals and histologic appearance were identical in both outbreaks. A chronic pattern of histologic change, characterized by interstitial fibrosis and inflammation, was observed in some affected animals. Melamine and cyanuric acid were present in renal tissue from both outbreaks. These results indicate that the pet food-associated renal failure outbreaks in 2004 and 2007 share identical clinical, histologic, and toxicologic findings, providing compelling evidence that they share the same causation.PMID: 17823396 [PubMed - in process] http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/sites/entrez?Db=pubmed&Cmd=ShowDetailView&TermToSearch=17823396&ordinalpos=1&itool=EntrezSystem2.PEntrez.Pubmed.Pubmed_ResultsPanel.Pubmed_RVDocSumSo this is not the first time that melamine and cyanuric acid has been found to be killing our pets!! What is going on. Can anyone find more information on the 2004 incident? |
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Poco
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« Reply #1 on: September 28, 2007, 10:52:01 PM » |
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WHAT?
mal, how did you find this? I bet somebody is burying a bone right now.
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« Reply #2 on: September 28, 2007, 11:06:22 PM » |
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an outbreak would be more than 2, right? and it sounds like the other 14 are the menu foods test animals, so is that an outbreak?
"All animals died or were euthanized because of severe uremia."
so why doesn't this fit for me?
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Poco
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« Reply #3 on: September 28, 2007, 11:20:04 PM » |
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I sure never heard about a poisoning in 2004, but I was in the middle of selling a house and moving then so I could have missed hearing about something much more limited that the 2007 pet poisoning. We'll have to see what we can find out about this. Obviously it happened and they are just sorting it all out now.
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« Reply #4 on: September 28, 2007, 11:38:40 PM » |
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we were 100% raw in 2004. but i was very active at the shelters and one has a pet supply store attached to the shelter. and if for some reason i was zoned out, several of my friends also were spending time there and had a long term relationship with them. if they knew, i'm sure i would have heard!
silent recalls anyone . . . . ?
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« Reply #6 on: September 29, 2007, 05:38:23 AM » |
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« Last Edit: September 29, 2007, 06:17:49 AM by purringfur »
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Buy local. Buy organic.
If you ate today, thank a farmer, hopefully a small, local farmer.
Remember the thousands & thousands of pets that died to give US a wake-up call about the safety of ALL food.
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mal
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« Reply #7 on: September 29, 2007, 07:41:35 AM » |
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Klondike:
Kidney failure may be the reason the animals are dying, but the initiating
factor of the renal disease has not been determined..."
Thank you for your find on this information.
It was interesting in the article that I came across that they said:
These results indicate that the pet food-associated renal failure outbreaks in 2004 and 2007 share identical clinical, histologic, and toxicologic findings, providing compelling evidence that they share the same causation
Does this mean that this systematic poisoning of our furkids has been going on for over 3 years? Why do the outbreaks only occur sporadically? What else is going into pet food?
Too many questions..no good answers.
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Poco
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« Reply #8 on: September 29, 2007, 05:50:44 PM » |
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Purringfur's links are about the same event described in the links I posted. It was massive! Several countries in Asia were involved. We just did not hear about it here in the US. And it seems like in spite of the various contaminants in the food, they could not draw a certain conclusion regarding the mechanism of the lethal renal failure. So that could be what the study is all about in the your first post, mal. Maybe one of will get curious enough to spend $10.00 to read the full text. Or maybe one of our vets has a subscription already to that service.
You are right that the NIH study points to a toxicology link in the two poisonings. How could this have happened twice?
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« Reply #9 on: September 29, 2007, 05:57:39 PM » |
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"How could this have happened twice?"
simple. they handled the first one like this one. acted like nothing much happened and denied. kept the losses to a minimum on paper and shifted the blame. the only thing the pet owners know from 2004 and 2007 is pet food killed or sickened their pets.
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« Reply #10 on: September 29, 2007, 06:39:34 PM » |
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I found this: Here is a scientific report on 3 dead dogs in Korea in 2004 that had renal failure from unknown cause and were all eating same dog food for about a month. http://vetsci.org/2006/pdf/299.pdfMy impression of this report is they hypothesize the dogs died of mycotoxicosis, but they aren't sure. |
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Never forget our cats and dogs and the Pet Food Recalls of 2007; the reason most of us are here!
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« Reply #11 on: September 29, 2007, 10:23:22 PM » |
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I read it and came to the same conclusion, but wonder why in this day and age--when they can genetically alter organisms, map genetic sequences of entire life forms--they can not be sure how these pets died. It defies reasonable logic. I'm hoping we find a more recent article that is more conclusive. How can this be that no one knows? It's just like the open ended melamine risk assessment we have been given here. Melamine is implicated, but proven safe. Now what do we make of that? A hill of beans! Anyway, back to the Asia 2004, they have to know. I don't understand how something so big can be covered up. From one article I read, some 5000+ pet owners were compensated in Asia, with many declining, all they wanted was the truth to be known. And it never even got out. (I think I do vaguely remember a blurb! blurbette, maybe) Something is so wrong, it reeks to me of spillover into human food--i think that is why the secret is being guarded so carefully. But sooner or later someone will talk. I just hope they don't wait 20 years, or even 2! Sorry for the paranoid diatribe, but I am getting really frustrated with this again.
OOOhhhmm....
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« Reply #12 on: September 29, 2007, 11:29:31 PM » |
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"It's just like the open ended melamine risk assessment we have been given here." that wasn't a risk assessment, it was a risk assumption.  |
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« Reply #13 on: September 30, 2007, 07:46:44 PM » |
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DMS looks like it was kept on the hush hush so what is happening here would not have happened in 2004. Namely people home cooking and turning away from all the suspect kibble that is still making pets sick and in some cases killing them. IMO feel that this is a plan put together by all the vets who needed money in their clinics, the ingredient manufacturers and the pet food companies. They all kick-back the profits to each other while watching and letting out pets get sicker and sicker and then dropping dead. And not a one of em gives a rats ass about any of the pets. Does it always come back to the money - to the greedy almighty money they can make no matter who suffers?
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« Reply #14 on: October 19, 2007, 02:20:41 PM » |
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I have been pondering and looking into this topic ever since it was first posted, since I had a strange and sudden cat death in 2004, which I have posted about on another thread awhile back. As I dug deeper into the links on this thread, imagine my surprise! These recalls in Asia occurred in September 2004.
My beloved sixteen-year-old Mac died on September 23, 2004. He was running and playing on a Sunday, sick on a Wednesday, and was euthanized on the Thursday evening. The vet clinic had tried all day to save him. We never figured out exactly what had happened. He wa an indoor cat who did not have access to poisons.
Why is this significant? Because this cat was eating Whiskas pouch food, a Mars/Pedigree product. I had five cats at the time and he was the only one who ate this food. Mars/Pedigree appears to have been the food implicated in the Asian recalls.
It has been happening for a long, long time. It has been covered up. I am convinced now that poisoned pet food killed my sweet orange boy.
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