Even cat food in America is poison
New Lab Test Investigation into cat food sold in America tested 62 brands, covering 100 products and found:
- 99% contained lead
- 94% contained arsenic
- 96% contained cadmium
- Dry food had about 3c the lead of wet or air-dried food
- Fish and seafood formulas had about 18x the mercury of other dry foods
- Fish and seafood formulas had about 28x among wet foods only
- Nearly half of fish products ranked in the high-mercury group. No poultry product did
- Fish formulas also had about 2.5x the cadmium
- Glyphosate (weed killer) was detected in 37% of products
- The plasticizer DEHP was found in 48 of 100 products, canned and pouched products had about 5x as much as bagged products
List of brands that were tested:
• Purina (Cat Chow, Friskies, One, Pro Plan, Fancy Feast)
• Acana
• American Journey
• Applaws
• BIXBI (Liberty and Rawbble)
• Blue Buffalo (Tastefuls and Wilderness)
• Boss Cat
• Carna4
• Chicken Soup for the Soul
• Diamond Naturals
• Dr. Marty’s (Nature’s Feast)
• Fancy Feast (Purina)
• Fresh is Best
• Freshpet
• Friskies (Purina)
• Fromm
• Fussie Cat
• Go! Solutions
• Grandma Lucy’s
• Green Juju
• Hill’s Science Diet
• The Honest Kitchen
• I and Love and You
• Iams
• Instinct
• Kirkland Signature
• McLovin’s
• Merrick
• Meow Mix
• Natural & Delicious (N&D)
• Natural Pet Food Group
• Nature’s Advantage
• Nulo
• Nutrish
• Open Farm
• Optimal
• Orijen
• PawTree
• Primal
• Purpose
• Quest (Go Raw)
• Redbarn
• Reveal
• Royal Canin
• Sheba
• Smallbatch
• Smalls
• The Simple Food Project
• Solid Gold
• Special Kitty (Walmart)
• Stella & Chewy’s
• Tiki Cat
• Vital Essentials
• Wellness
• Weruva
• Whole Hearted
• Whole Life
• Ziwi Peak
Lab testing was done by The Clean Label Project, a Colorado nonprofit that tests consumer products and sells a purity certification