My favorite pet food and the food I sell, Life’s Abundance, comes in zip lock pet food bags which are made in Germany and which are free of toxic chemicals called perflorinated compounds, PFC. PFC’s are used in non-stick cookware, carpeting, and many other products. Here’s a fact sheet about PFC. Some pet food companies use PFC in their kibble bags to keep the bags grease proof and stain proof. Over time, PFC may seep into the food.

In addition, paper bags allow air to leak inside and the oxygen can cause early rancidity and some loss of nutrients. And they take about four times more energy to make than the bags for Life’s Abundance. Life’s Abundance bags keep the kibble inside fresh and safe and help the environment too.

There’s another chemical which is sometimes used to line pop-top pet food cans (and canned foods for people as well), bisphenol A-diglycidyl ether, BADGE. An article in the highly reputable Journal of the American Veterinary Medical Association associates this endocrine-system-disrupting toxin with hyperthyroidism in cats, an all too common disease which is not fun or inexpensive to treat, and even less fun for the cat. Click here to read the AVMA  article. Bisphenol A-diglycidyl ether reacts with oils in the food and is then ingested when cats eat. BADGE is also used the manufacture of non-food related adhesives and protective coatings.

Life’s Abundance canned dog and cat food cans are NOT lined with bisphenol A-diglycidyl ether.

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