Complaint Spurs Consumer Reports To Issue Another Pet Food Review

Knight-Ridder Tribune
Copyright 1998 Chicago Tribune
March 18, 1998

The lengthy review of pet foods in the February issue of Consumer Reports was based on faulty testing and its recommendations should be disregarded "for now," said the magazine in a press release. A correction is being run in the March Consumer Reports.

The Iams Co. protested the February report's findings that its pet foods were low in potassium. Consumer Reports retested Iams' products, found that they met nutritional standards for potassium and agreed that "our initial test results were incorrect." It promises to publish an updated chart on pet foods in its May issue, and in the meantime post relevant information on its Internet Web site, http://www.ConsumerReports.org.