Cat-food irradiation banned as pet theory proved

Posted on Tuesday, June 9th, 2009

How sad that it has taken this long for the government to work out what was causing the deaths of many cats around Australia. For those that don’t have the history on this story a Canadian gourmet pet food called brand called Orijen was believed to be responsible for the deaths of many cats but it has now been proven that it was in fact the governments requirement of irradiating imported pet food which contaminated and poisoned the cats.

Here is the story by Kelly Burke from the Sydney Morning Herald website regarding the change in government legislation regarding imported cat food.