{"id":2644,"date":"2020-09-24T01:23:21","date_gmt":"2020-09-24T01:23:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ireneeng.com\/?p=2644"},"modified":"2020-09-24T01:38:11","modified_gmt":"2020-09-24T01:38:11","slug":"china-isnt-good-enough-for-dog-food","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ireneeng.com\/?p=2644","title":{"rendered":"China is no good enough for dog food"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ireneeng.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/Screen-Shot-2020-09-23-at-8.38.58-PM.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-2645 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ireneeng.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/Screen-Shot-2020-09-23-at-8.38.58-PM-150x150.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ireneeng.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/Screen-Shot-2020-09-23-at-8.38.58-PM-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/www.ireneeng.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/Screen-Shot-2020-09-23-at-8.38.58-PM-48x48.png 48w, https:\/\/www.ireneeng.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/Screen-Shot-2020-09-23-at-8.38.58-PM-300x300.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a>The Honest Kitchen&#8217;s Proper Toppers dog food on\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Honest-Kitchen-Proper-Toppers-Dehydrated\/dp\/B0177VFLQC\/ref=pd_lpo_199_img_1\/141-8919723-1271605?_encoding=UTF8&amp;pd_rd_i=B0177VFLQC&amp;pd_rd_r=546f5602-20a0-4be9-a5df-6900c43aebe3&amp;pd_rd_w=MSZEB&amp;pd_rd_wg=nlknQ&amp;pf_rd_p=7b36d496-f366-4631-94d3-61b87b52511b&amp;pf_rd_r=2NMF2M1P4B1AGVW9FCWH&amp;psc=1&amp;refRID=2NMF2M1P4B1AGVW9FCWH\">amazon<\/a>\u00a0sells for $9.99 for a 5.5 oz bag. On the bottom, it states <em>Made in the USA with ingredients from around the world (nothing from China)<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Nothing from China &#8230; when everything is made in China<\/p>\n<p>Ouch!<\/p>\n<p>I thought about No dogs no Chinese allowed &#8230; very different tho.<\/p>\n<p>A key factor for this statement is likely from the FDA recall of pet foods in 2007 and the milk scandal in China the following year. The key factor in both cases is adding melamine \u4e09\u805a\u6c30\u80fa.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/mp.weixin.qq.com\/s\/zujgzMNBNU3xLEBIoZfdXA\">\u636e\u8bf4\u5f53\u65f6\u7f8e\u56fd\u4eba\u53d1\u73b0\u4e09\u805a\u6c30\u80fa<\/a>\u540e\u767e\u601d\u4e0d\u5f97\u5176\u89e3,\u4e0d\u77e5\u9053\u4e3a\u5565\u6dfb\u52a0\u8fd9\u73a9\u610f,\u8fd8\u4ee5\u4e3a\u662f\u8001\u9f20\u836f\u6c61\u67d3\u9020\u6210\u7684.\u8bb0\u5f97\u5f53\u65f6\u7f8e\u56fd\u65b0\u95fb\u5a92\u4f53\u62a5\u9053\u90fd\u662f\u6000\u7591\u4e2d\u56fd\u7cae\u98df\u4ed3\u5e93\u770b\u7ba1\u4e0d\u4e25,\u9020\u6210\u8001\u9f20\u836f\u6c61\u67d3.\u540e\u6765\u7ec8\u4e8e\u6709\u77e5\u60c5\u7684\u4e2d\u56fd\u4eba\u5fcd\u4e0d\u4f4f,\u5077\u5077\u544a\u8bc9\u7f8e\u56fd\u4eba\u6dfb\u52a0\u4e09\u805a\u6c30\u80fa\u7684\u5965\u79d8,\u9ad8\u624b\u4e91\u96c6\u7684\u7f8e\u56fd\u5b66\u672f\u754c\u8fd9\u624d\u604d\u7136\u5927\u609f.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>2007, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fda.gov\/animal-veterinary\/recalls-withdrawals\/melamine-pet-food-recall-2007\">FDC recalled<\/a> pet goods from China<\/li>\n<li>2008, Chinese milk (baby formula) scandal\u00a0(<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Timeline_of_the_2008_Chinese_milk_scandal\">wiki timeline<\/a>)<\/li>\n<li>baby formula buying spree in Hong Kong and Australia: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/world-asia-pacific-12336975\">bbc<\/a>;\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/hong-kong\/hong-kong-economy\/article\/2187581\/hong-kongs-two-tin-ban-baby-milk-formula-stay-amid\">scmp<\/a>; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.quora.com\/Milk-Why-is-so-much-powdered-formula-being-smuggled-from-Hong-Kong-into-China\">quora<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Honest Kitchen&#8217;s Proper Toppers dog food on\u00a0amazon\u00a0sells for $9.99 for a 5.5 oz bag. On the bottom, it states Made in the USA with&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ireneeng.com\/?p=2644\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">China is no good enough for dog food<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"bgseo_title":"","bgseo_description":"","bgseo_robots_index":"index","bgseo_robots_follow":"follow","om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[24,18],"class_list":["post-2644","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-hong-kong","tag-things-chinese","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2644","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2644"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2644\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2654,"href":"https:\/\/www.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2644\/revisions\/2654"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2644"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2644"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2644"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}