Tainted pet food fed to hogs (might be OKed for humanfood, supplyer openly sought melamine)

Shallah Kali

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Fri Apr-20-07 02:06 AM
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Tainted pet food fed to hogs (might be OKed for humanfood, supplyer openly sought melamine)

Edited on Fri Apr-20-07 02:27 AM by Shallah

http://www.boston.com/business/globe/articles/2007/04/20/investigators_tainted_pet_food_fed_to_hogs

Stephen F. Sundlof, director of the Food and Drug Administration�s Center for Veterinary Medicine, said the FDA will work with the United States Department of Agriculture ��to determine whether or not those animals can go into the food supply. That�s a process that is still ongoing. We should know the answer to that in a short period of time.��

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Even though reporters were able to quickly travel to China and determine that at least one supplier there openly shopped for melamine to artificially boost the protein content of its wheat gluten, FDA investigators still lack visas needed to inspect Chinese plants.

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The FDA declined to name other firms until, in the midst of its briefing with reporters, the Blue Buffalo Co. of Connecticut said it was recalling a production run of Spa Select Kitten dry food made with contaminated rice-protein concentrate.
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The above article says that melamine was only found in the pick bag of rice protein from wilbur-ellis yet SacBee states that while early tests did not show melamine the FDA's more sensitive tests DID find melamine-

Vets wonder: What pet food will be saf
http://www.sacbee.com/101/story/157677.html

The company held that shipment in its warehouses while it tested the pink bag and two of the white ones, one from each of two lots. The white ones came back negative, while the pink one had 6,000 parts per million of melamine. Thacher said. Later FDA tests, which Wilbur-Ellis described as more sensitive, found melamine in other bags.

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Chemical found in state hogs (california)
http://www.sacbee.com/101/story/158442.html

The chemical linked to cat and dog deaths on two continents has made it into pig feed and perhaps onto California tables, with state agricultural officials announcing late Thursday they've quarantined a Ceres hog farm where lab tests showed melamine in pig urine.

"The farm is cooperating with us to determine the disposition of all animals that have left the premises since April 3," Richard Breitmeyer, the state veterinarian, said in a prepared statement. That's the first time melamine-tainted food is known to have been shipped to the farm.

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The farm sells to both private individuals and others whom the state declined to identify, saying it is still investigating what happened to the pork. The state Health Services Department is urging people who bought pigs from the farm not to eat the meat until further notice.

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The FDA is checking which companies put the rice protein into pet foods. It expects those companies to issue their own recalls, Rogers said.
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how are people to avoid eating pork from that farm if it was bought second hand and the freaking FDA and the danged farm won't release the buyers names?