| Title: | Meower Power is Valuing Differences |
| Notice: | FELINE_V1 is moving 1/11/94 5pm PST to MISERY |
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| Created: | Sun Feb 09 1986 |
| Last Modified: | Tue Jan 11 1994 |
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Hi,
I'm a relatively new cat owner. I've been reading some of the notes about
cat food in an effort to educate myself on the topic. I've noticed quite a few
notes which expressed concern about about dry foods which use ethoxyquin as a
preservative. Right now I'm feeding my flame point Max Cat from Nutro which
contains ethoxyquin. I was wondering what sort of effect this preservative could
have on my cat. I've read a lot of notes in this conference but I couldn't find
any which explained this. Can anyone help shed some light on the subject?
Thanks.
-Rich
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| 4676.1 | Keywords shows several notes on ethoxy | JUPITR::KAGNO | I'm51%Pussycat,49%Bitch-Don'tPush it! | Fri May 24 1991 10:10 | 9 |
For a complete discussion on ethoxyquin, see note #2483. It is also
discussed in note 4.9 and 890.23, according to keywords.
Note 2483 is really in-depth, with over 100 replies.
Happy reading!!
--Roberta
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| 4676.2 | WR2FOR::CORDESBRO_JO | set home/cat_max=infinity | Fri May 24 1991 13:04 | 16 | |
One of the reasons that there isn't any mention of what effect the
preservative could have on your cat is that no one seems to know. I
have been feeding Iams, Science Diet, and Max Cat to my breeding cats
for years and have seen no ill effects. All of these products contain
ethoxyquin.
My opinion is that cat foods need some type of preservative to keep the
food fresh, and that if manufacturers can use less ethoxyquin to do the
same job as a greater amount of another preservative, I will take the
ethoxyquin.
For more discussion on ethoxyquin, check the keywords in the Canine
notesfile. There is quite a bit of discussion about it in that file
too.
Jo
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