page_title: Dog food
section_title: Recalls
hierarchical_section_title: Dog food / Recalls
caption_attribution_description: English: A pet food aisle at a supermarket in Brooklyn, New York City. Copyright 2007 Jeffrey O. Gustafson, released to Wikimedia Commons under the GFDL and CC-BY-SA-2.0.
context_page_description: Dog food is food specifically formulated and intended for consumption by dogs and other related canines. Dogs are considered to be omnivores with a carnivorous bias. They have the sharp, pointed teeth and shorter gastrointestinal tracts of carnivores, better suited for the consumption of meat than of vegetable substances, yet also have 10 genes that are responsible for starch and glucose digestion, as well as the ability to produce amylase, an enzyme that functions to break down carbohydrates into simple sugars - something that carnivores lack. Dogs evolved the ability living alongside humans in agricultural societies, as they managed on scrap leftovers from humans.
  Dogs have managed to adapt over thousands of years to survive on the meat and non-meat scraps and leftovers of human existence and thrive on a variety of foods, with studies suggesting dogs' ability to digest carbohydrates easily may be a key difference between dogs and wolves.
  In the United States alone, the dog food market is expected to reach $23.3 billion by 2022.
context_section_description: The 2007 pet food recalls involved the massive recall of many brands of cat and dog foods beginning in March 2007.  The recalls came in response to reports of renal failure in pets consuming mostly wet pet foods made with wheat gluten from a single Chinese company, beginning in February 2007.  After more than three weeks of complaints from consumers, the recall began voluntarily with the Canadian company Menu Foods on March 16, 2007, when a company test showed sickness and death in some of the test animals.
  Overall, several major companies recalled more than 100 brands of pet foods, with most of the recalled product coming from Menu Foods. The contaminant was identified as melamine, which had been added as an adulterant to simulate a higher protein content.
  In the United States, there has been extensive media coverage of the recall.  There have been calls for government regulation of pet foods, which had previously been self-regulated by pet food manufacturers. The economic impact on the pet food market has been extensive, with Menu Foods losing roughly $30 million alone from the recall.
caption: Dog food at a supermarket in Brooklyn, New York.
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