Evanger's pet food recall (pentobarbital)
Just a quick note I received on my recall alert: For all pets, Evanger's of Illinois issued voluntary recall due to pentobarbital in both dog and cat food where sickness and fatality occurred. Che...
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I did a little investigating on pentobarbital
The ld50 for dogs is 80mg/kg
The recommended euthanasia dose for cows is 85mg/kg
If a cow was euthanasia with pentobarbital and the drug was evenly distributed throughout the cows body (which is what my reading suggests occurs) the beef would be contaminated at 85mg/kg.
In order for a dog to get a leathal dose of pentobarbital from contaminated beef it would need to eat consume its body weight in the contaminated beef.
It just does not add up that the contamination in the canned food came from a euthanasized cow being used for the beef chunks.
The ld50 for dogs is 80mg/kg
The recommended euthanasia dose for cows is 85mg/kg
If a cow was euthanasia with pentobarbital and the drug was evenly distributed throughout the cows body (which is what my reading suggests occurs) the beef would be contaminated at 85mg/kg.
In order for a dog to get a leathal dose of pentobarbital from contaminated beef it would need to eat consume its body weight in the contaminated beef.
It just does not add up that the contamination in the canned food came from a euthanasized cow being used for the beef chunks.
