{"id":143,"date":"2015-12-21T03:05:32","date_gmt":"2015-12-21T03:05:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/foodirradiationwatch.org\/?p=143"},"modified":"2025-12-21T11:33:17","modified_gmt":"2025-12-21T11:33:17","slug":"rspca-australia-supports-ban-on-irradiated-pet-foods","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/foodirradiationwatch.org\/index.php\/rspca-australia-supports-ban-on-irradiated-pet-foods\/","title":{"rendered":"RSPCA Australia Supports Ban on Irradiated Pet Foods"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>RSPCA Australia\u00a0has supported\u00a0a ban on irradiation of cat pet food and is opposed to pet food irradiation generally:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>RSPCA Australia\u2019s position is that pet food should not be irradiated. Currently there is a ban on the irradiation of imported cat food and we commend the Minister for implementing this ban. This ban followed scientific evidence and the recent \u2018Orijen cats\u2019 cases that showed an association between ingestion of irradiated imported cat food and severe neurological impairment, which in some cases was fatal. There is also a requirement that irradiated imported dog food be labelled \u2018Must not be fed to cats\u2019.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>For more information, check out RSPCA Australia:<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/kb.rspca.org.au\/what-is-rspca-australias-position-on-the-irradiation-of-imported-pet-food-products_307.html\" target=\"_blank\">What is RSPCA Australia&#8217;s position on the irradiation of imported pet food products?<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>RSPCA Australia\u00a0has supported\u00a0a ban on irradiation of cat pet food and is opposed to pet food irradiation generally: RSPCA Australia\u2019s position is that pet food should not be irradiated. Currently there is a ban on the irradiation of imported cat food and we commend the Minister for implementing this ban.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":145,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-143","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/foodirradiationwatch.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/foodirradiationwatch.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/foodirradiationwatch.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/foodirradiationwatch.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/foodirradiationwatch.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=143"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/foodirradiationwatch.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":537,"href":"http:\/\/foodirradiationwatch.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143\/revisions\/537"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/foodirradiationwatch.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/145"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/foodirradiationwatch.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=143"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/foodirradiationwatch.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=143"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/foodirradiationwatch.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=143"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}