Dog owners are getting a new warning about concerns over pet food that may be linked to deadly congestive heart failure. The Food and Drug Administration has been investigating a string of reports of some dogs getting the heart condition for a year, and for the first time, they're releasing the
Dog owners are getting a new warning about concerns over pet food that may be linked to deadly congestive heart failure.
The brands, which are largely dry dog food, have not been recalled, but in their statement released Thursday, the FDA said the agency"has an obligation to be transparent with the pet-owning public regarding the frequency with which certain brands have been reported." Some well-known brands are among the 16 the FDA identified as having the most reported cases of DCM. The companies had between 10 and 67 reports each of cases of DCM that were reported to the FDA.
Midwestern Pet Foods, which owns Earthborn Holistic which is another brand named by the FDA and allegedly cited in 32 reports, said that they have"reviewed" the FDA's report. Champion Petfoods owns two of the dog food brands that were included in the FDA’s report, Acana and Orijen. They released a statement noting that the FDA’s update “provides no causative scientific link between DCM and our products, ingredients or grain-free diets as a whole.”
The cases relevant to the investigation stem from"sporadic" reports of DCM that the FDA received between Jan. 1, 2014, and April 30, 2019.
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