Author: Stephanie Clark Ph.D.

This article was published in the January 2024 issue of Pet Food Processing. Read this and other articles from this issue on our January digital edition.In the ever-evolving landscape of pet nutrition, a new debate is taking place around copper levels in pet diets and their potential link to hepatopathy, a type of liver disease, in dogs. This discussion taking place within the veterinary community today echoes earlier, highly publicized concerns about grain-free foods and their potential link to a heart condition called dilated cardiomyopathy (DCM). . Given the importance of such claims and the pet industry’s commitment to animal…