This day and age, people are very skeptical as to what they may be feeding their pets as recent health scares regarding what is in the food and what is and isn't being done to ensure the safety of the food. Many consumers are very leery of buying off branded foods or manufactured dry kibble, opting instead to buy natural organic dog food that is made fresh on a daily basis, or make their own from a homemade dog food recipe.



To ensure the safety of their products, and verify the nutritional quality of their foods, many manufacturers (and many countries' laws require) place a nutritional facts label on their packaging that puts the general nutritional content of their food in a conspicuous place in order to ensure that comparisons can be made between brands and that foods are healthy and hearty for a dog.

An issue with this however, is that there is no way for a Dog Food Report to be given for a producer. Also, with many manufacturers making no quality checks on their food, the resulting lack of oversight should there be an issue with ingredients or the manufacturing process might not be found until the product is in the hands of the consumer.

Recently, a number of brands unknowingly used bacteria infected grains and materials in manufacturing their food. As a result the governments in a number of countries have considered requiring the manufacturers to compile a Dog Food Report for the food they produce. Such a report could be costly for a company to create but it's benefits would be great.

For one, the provision of a Dog Food Report would allow the average consumer to have a look at what exactly is being fed to their pet. The report would contain a quality report of the ingredients of the kibble, which would provide some piece of mind to the consumer, allowing them to see what was in their pet's food along with some verification that the ingredients are fresh.

The Dog Food Report would also give a nutritional value check of the food by an outside testing facility or government lab. The facility would verify the claims for nutrition, and would update a package with the newest report information. This would give a great deal of power to the consumer when buying thier dog food.

A third benefit to such a report would be the transparency that all dog food makers would have, even the natural organic dog food maker, as the information would be widely available for all consumers to read and compare brands to one another. Brands would have some incentive to make their products better, and good products would have some positive publicity.

A Dog Food Report is necessary to provide safer, higher quality dog foods in this day and age. If manufacturers were required to do more oversight, the quality of the dog foods sold worldwide would improve drastically, and pet owners and thier pets would all reap the benefits.