{"id":363094,"date":"2026-10-02T19:12:17","date_gmt":"2026-10-02T19:12:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/363094\/"},"modified":"2026-10-02T19:12:17","modified_gmt":"2026-10-02T19:12:17","slug":"news-12-bronx-investigation-finds-heavy-metals-in-nearly-all-cat-food","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/363094\/","title":{"rendered":"News 12 | Bronx | Investigation Finds Heavy Metals In Nearly All Cat Food"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">An investigation conducted by the Clean Label Project detected heavy metals in almost all brands and varieties of cat food on the market.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Top-selling options, including wet, dry, air-dried and freeze-dried foods, were tested for more than 120 contaminants.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">The testing covered toxins such as herbicides, lead, mercury and arsenic.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Lead appeared in 99% of products, cadmium in 96% and arsenic in 94%.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Dry food was found to contain three times the amount of lead detected in wet or air-dried products.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Fish-based cat products also had much higher levels of mercury, according to the report.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">The Clean Label Project advises cat owners to vary their pet\u2019s diets, examine ingredient lists and watch out for excessive filler ingredients.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">For more information, <a data-rich-text-hyperlink=\"true\" href=\"https:\/\/cleanlabelproject.org\/cat-food-study\/#get-the-study\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">click here.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"An investigation conducted by the Clean Label Project detected heavy metals in almost all brands and varieties of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":363095,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[128,9,24,63,129,131,130],"class_list":["post-363094","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-the-bronx","tag-bronx","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-the-bronx","tag-the-bronx-headlines","tag-the-bronx-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/363094","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=363094"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/363094\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/363095"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=363094"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=363094"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=363094"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}