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Dog Foods in Asia

Posted on March 1, 2008
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Most Asian households would commonly give leftovers and scraps to their dogs either from the dinner table at home, or leftovers from meals taken outside.  Occasionally one might just be able to purchase humanly inedible parts from meat stalls such as chicken claws, duck necks and excess fat meats, lungs, offal and such, to mix with staple household bulk cereals such as rice.

The higher the household income, the greater the propensity for the house to buy commercially prepared dog food, such as kibble (dried processed food pellets), or canned wet meats.


Processed dry or wet dog foods are not necessarily better in quality than the typical Asian fare.  The source of the processed foods is usually:

meat byproducts (sometimes apparently including even euthanized animals)
meat-and-bone meals
grain byproducts
horse meat

These are usually put through a blender, extruded and pelletised and cooked by steam or hot water. They are then dried and have vitamins and fats/oils added.

Wet or canned dog foods are higher in moisture content. These are commonly canned and then sterilized.

Processed and canned foods are supposed to be safer for consumption.  However this has been proven to be otherwise.  There is always a chance the food can be contaminated in the process of preparation of the feed.

There have been instances of major recalls of dog food due to problems in the feed.  For example the last major recall was in March 2007 by Menu Foods, whose action was made necessary by the discovery of a very high incidence of kidney failure due to contamination of dog feed by melamine in the wheat gluten in contaminated foods.  This single corporate recall alone cost the company about USD 30mill.

 

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