Do you know what ingredients are in the pet food you are feeding your animals?

Cardeñosa ended up successfully amplifying 63% of the pet food products and 12.5% of the cosmetic products. For the pet food products, 70% of those were identified as endangered shortfin mako shark (Isurus oxyrinchus). For the beauty products, he found them containing blu shark (Prionace glauca), scalloped hammerhead (Sphyrna lewini) and blacktip shark (Carcharhinus limbatus). And if that wasn’t shocking enough maybe this is: none of the products tested was labeled containing shark-base ingredients.

The International Union for the Conservation of Nature’s (IUCN) latest assessment for these sharks vary from Near Threatened to Endangered. Mak sharks recently made international news due to the Convention on the International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES The attendees to the CITES gathering voted on and agreed to place the two species of mako sharks and other sharks on Appendix II of CITES, meaning that international trade in these species will be regulated, and countries will be incentivized to manage the fisheries for these species to ensure they are sustainable.