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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>It’s not just an “ingredients” thing .. the issue is also the source of those ingredients. P&G could keep the formulation exactly as it is now … but instead of using Farmer X’s chickens from Georgia … they switch to their super supplier Farmer Z in Iowa.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>The ingredient would still be chicken … but .. would the quality be the same? No way for us consumers to tell, until our animals start having odd reactions … one of my own.. tolerated Kirkland’s Premium Weight dog food for two bags, and then by the third the signs started showing up … red rashes, itchies, ear infections .. switch back to Kirkland’s Premium Lamb & Rice .. and by the end of the first bag, his infections were gone and have stayed that way.. yet he’s still getting red itchies now and again.. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>This base component switching, is what got Diamond into so much trouble making foods with ingredients that they couldn’t rely on. One supplier to Diamond started sending a rice protein that contained Melamine. Diamond had no clue.. they were just getting a slightly less expensive rice product… the formulation of the foods made with that rice protein didn’t change.. if it were 10 parts chicken, 10 parts rice protein .. it was STILL 10 parts chicken and 10 parts rice protein … but that the source didn’t give enough information, or didn’t properly identify the base product had changed … regardless of knowing the adulterant in the rice protein … that is what in the end was the thing that started dogs to renal failure.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>So even if P&G had 6 months to disclose a change of formulation.. it’s not even a formula that could change between now and the time any reactions are seen from our hounds.. I wouldn’t be surprised if that is one of the number one arguments the “naturalists” use for making your own food at home with ingredients you “the owner” (slave) are putting into the meal.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>So one of the real answers, would be that food makers test all batches of feed against a standard and extended panel of things that should/shouldn’t be in the food … the Feed manufacturer can push that back on their suppliers… but if the supplier doesn’t properly test for things that should and should not be in the food .. you’re back into the mess that Diamond was in originally. Unconfirmed food contents.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Anywhere a company can skirt the laws, to save a buck, they often will. Its less costly to deal in litigation after the fact, than it is to be 100% right and accurate before it. Lives lost this way have no fair market value to the company.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>-Robert<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>(the angry dog food man)<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #B5C4DF 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in'><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>Subject:</span></b><span style='font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'> Re: [Dailydrool] Innova<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='font-family:Annual'>"A real pain---just checked our old and new bag and the formula is still the same."<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='font-family:Annual'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal>Something you need to know – government regulations allow P&G to change the formula but not show the change in the ingredients list right away, I believe they have between six months and a year before they are required to show the changes. So if you know there has been an ownership change, don't rely on the new company to let you know that they have cheapened the contents.<span style='color:navy'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div></body></html>