as it should be. Where can I obtain pig pancreas? We receive more emails asking this question than any other and this is particularly true of Cheetah's American friends for whom obtaining pancreas seems to be especially difficult perhaps due to US federal laws. If you are American and if you know where to obtain pancreas in your country would you please email us with that information - we will then include it in future updates of this website. As a first goal we would like to be able to name at least one reliable supplier of pancreas for every state in the US. In England, where we live, pancreas is obtained primarily from government licensed slaughterhouses a list of which is obtainable from the Veterinary Public Health Operations Division of the Food Standards Agency but of course this list only applies to the United Kingdom. I do not know where to obtain equivalent lists for the United States (you could try the United States Department of Agriculture), Canada, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa or other territories. You may also be able to obtain pancreas through your butcher. One dog owner obtains it from a Chinese grocery store! Does it have to be pig pancreas? No. Some of my friends say that beef pancreas works just as well but that beef pancreas is harder to liquidise than pig pancreas (see the question on preparing the pancreas below.) We have no direct experience of treating EPI with beef pancreas and we