Posted on 03/31/2007 4:37:10 AM PDT by Milwaukee_Guy
As an aside, my wife hates those movies, but I find them hilarious. Just noticed the picture in the still and LMAO. In the movie you might get second or two to notice it, but it is truly a work of comic art.
What's the third contaminant? So far I've read about the drug and the melamine.
What makes me wonder is why we can't produce enough wheat gluten here in the USA. Do we not export lots of wheat?
Maybe it's time to start checking foods intended for human consumption to see which ones contain wheat glutton and then ask for the source of that glutton?Could people be at risk too?
The $64,000 dollar question is, what's the name of that company?
It looks like the wheat supply in the US is tighter than China's for the past year. Their yield was up I guess and their demand levelling off, so they had cheaper wheat to export.
Many have expressed a concern that this may not be over yet and the big unspoken concern is contaminated wheat gluten entering the human food supply.
No- and neither would I. Makes you wonder about ALL their products. I wonder if they use wheat gluten in the horse feed?
Purina may be in for some REALLY bad days. Bad enough this happened at all- but other companies came out early. For Purina to wait..KNOWING they had this in their food? So much for consumer confidence..
I will reiterate what they said about the melamine, which is it was not in harmful amounts.
I will say this is just another reason I prefer homemade food- too much crap in food. If it takes a paragraph to list what's in something- I don't want it! lol
More interesting would be finding out just exactly what we import and put into our foods (human and pet/livestock)- not just the wheat gluten.
Boy, you're not kidding. And if this story isn't giving Homeland Security the willies, it'd better.
Aminopterin Confirmed in Recalled Pet Food and Implicated Tissue Samples.
http://www.agmkt.state.ny.us/AD/release.asp?ReleaseID=1598
FDA Issues Warning Letter to Iams Pet Food - Chromium Tripicolinate
http://www.freerepublic.com/^http://www.fda.gov/foi/warning_letters/b6285d.htm
"New York State is home to two laboratories that are part of federal emergency lab networks, created through the U.S. Department of Homeland Security after 9-11 to keep the nation’s animals and food supply safe. The New York State Food Laboratory is part of the Federal Food Emergency Response Network (FERN) and as such, is capable of running a number of unique poison/toxin tests on food, including the test that identified Aminopterin.
The New York State Animal Health Diagnostic Center at Cornell University is a member of the National Animal Health Laboratory Network and thus, is uniquely qualified to investigate the causes of animal health emergencies, like the sudden deaths of dogs and cats from the recently recalled pet food."
http://www.agmkt.state.ny.us/AD/release.asp?ReleaseID=1598
Agreed.The wheat glutton seems like a good place to start.It's stated use was as a thickening agent for the gravy in the canned foods.What about human products like canned pastas that have a sauce in the product?I'm heading to the kitchen to look at some labels,no panic just a search for a little more info.
"The Pet Connection site is concerned about the responsiveness of the FDA and the pet food manufactures."
No kidding. These clowns must be the second cousins to the guys who ran FEMA.
"Some dry food might be bad, too... well, we're workin' on it. Hang on there..."
Meanwhile, we may be poisoning our pets and never know it.
Thanks again, useless government.
Everyday it's a new brand.
I'm furious that it's taking the manufacturers so long to figure out whether their products are contaminated or not.
It's pretty pathetic when a country like ours sells products that kill BOTH people and their pets!
I guess I should be thankful for my allergies and fussy palate, as I have virtually no processed foods in my kitchen.
I think the manufacturers knew in hours if their products were contaminated.It's the computer age,the supply chain info can be accessed with a few keystrokes.A metered response to a crisis is the way to go,give the info out slowly-people forget bits and pieces of it and the overall picture doesn't look so bad to them.
"New York State is home to two laboratories that are part of federal emergency lab networks, created through the U.S. Department of Homeland Security after 9-11 to keep the nation’s animals and food supply safe.
Snort.
The FDA and all the manufactures still don't seem to have much information or are still trying to spin the story before releasing more information.
How much temptation is there for insider trading?
Hmmmm.....
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