Propylene Glycol in your Dogs food....... - Page 1

  Look on the back of the package and read ingredients before you feed to your dog..also included in this treat is salt,  smoke, and three other chemical.

PROPYLENE GLYCOL is used in:

You do need a conclusive study to make the producers stop using these ingredients!  Yes, this is beginning to sound like another great American Tobacco Scandal.  But before you get complacent and think the government is going to step in – think again.   Look how long it has taken the cigarette pushers to get grilled – 20 years after the first Surgeon General’s report….

Propylene Glycol

A cosmetic form of mineral oil found in automatic brake and hydraulic fluid and industrial antifreeze. In the skin and hair, propylene glycol works as a humescent, which causes retention of moisture content of skin or cosmetic products by preventing the escape of moisture or water. The Material Safety Data Sheet warns users to avoid skin contact with propylene glycol as this strong skin irritant can cause liver abnormalities and kidney damage.

Remember commercially produced products like soaps, perfumes, hand lotions and dog foods are made and produced for money.....they refuse to admit that any thing harmful is put in our dog foods or our treats.

Americans believe labels and they believe the companies that lie and this is one of the secrets that are killing our dogs too early in their life time....and people refuse to quit feeding their pets dangerous inhalants and chemicals found in all these products...

For many years I worked in chemical sales, generated MSDS's and trained those handling chemicals. Propylene glycol is considered a safe ingredient in many products we comsume in food and pharmaceuticals. It is on the US Food and Drug Admin's list of materials that are generally recognized as safe and also recognized as safe by the World Health Organization. It has been used for many years in the veterinary world as an additive to drenches for cattle, extenders for topicals and many dog breeders I know use it to cut ivermectin liquid before administering it to dogs as a h-worm preventative.  It is also the main ingredient in non-toxic antifreeze, the type we use in our RV's. A dog can drink a gallon of it and suffer no ill effects while one tablespoon of ethylene glycol based anti freeze is usually fatal.  Propylene glycol and ethylene glycol are 2 entirely different materials. Exposure to concentrated propylene glycol can cause skin and eye irritation.  The level of concentration found in a bag of dog food is hardly enough to cause contact issues with eyes and skin.

I seriously doubt it is the worst ingredient in commercial dog food, most likely a lot safer than some of the protein sources that are derived from rendering dead animals or the left over scraps from the meat processing industry.  The only way to be halfway sure that your dogs aren't getting something harmful in their food is to make it yourself using only organically grown and raised animal and plant sources. That's not as easy as it sounds  since most of the "organic" chicken feed eaten by the organically raised chickens we buy at ridiculously high prices is coming here from China.  Did y'all know that?The best way to avoid all of this is to have enough land to raise your own animals feeding them a locally milled feed that is not imported from China. Grow your own crops using only organic pest control. Harvest your crops by hand, no diesel fueled equipment allowed. Serve it all raw or prepared it using only pure spring water. You might alos want to wear a dust mask while you're outside doing all of this unless you are lucky enough to live in a pollution-free area lke the Alaskan tundra. Good luck with all of this.

And in the U.S. it's in people food, too – cake mixes, salad dressings, soft drinks, popcorn, food colorings, fat-free ice cream, sour cream, and beer (stabilizes the foam).

Yes, we all know its in everything listed above, and why do we have sick dogs with liver diseases, kidney failures, and all kinds of reactions, and people dont know why...We have people with just as many illnesses than ever before...because we just keep putting these things in the body...the three sites i read  all say it is not safe for human , either pets , and it is toxic...regardless what studies want you to believe..   A whole lot of posters here have been trying to get over to all , that what is in commercial treats and dog foods , is slowly killing our loved ones..

It just is not a safe ingredient and there are plenty of warnings today to research what you buy and buy creams , hand lotions and pet foods with out propylene glycol in it...along with many other chemicals listed on these commercial dog foods and treats...why rationalize it.....a bag of treats that gets fed over and over again and its not dangerous as warned ....

There are too many other treats and foods on the market if you just read labels....

I threw those treats in the garbage that the lady brought for me to give to her maltese that I am keeping for her....I cannot, in good conscious feed a pet something that I know is not good or not safe.  Commercial products are made with the worry of your health or your pets...the word natural is misused every other word in commercials...just to get you to fall for it....

http://antiagingchoices.com/harmful_ingredients/propylene_glycol.htm

http://www.health-report.co.uk/ethylene_glycol_propylene_glycol.html

http://antiagingchoices.com/harmful_ingredients/propylene_glycol.htm