Hold the Pancakes!
Posted on 04/01/2007 4:49:58 PM PDT by Milwaukee_Guy
IA #99-26, IMPORT ALERT #99-26, "DETENTION WITHOUT PHYSICAL EXAMINATION AND INTENSIFIED COVERAGE OF WHEAT GLUTEN DUE TO THE PRESENCE OF MELAMINE"
TYPE OF ALERT: Detention Without Physical Examination
(Note: This import alert represents the Agency's current guidance to FDA field personnel regarding the manufacturer(s) and/or products(s) at issue. It does not create or confer any rights for or on any person, and does not operate to bind FDA or the public).
PRODUCT: Wheat Gluten
PRODUCT CODES: 02F[][]08 Wheat gluten 02E[][]06 - Wheat flour gluten 71M[][]01 wheat gluten
PROBLEMS: Poisonous or deleterious substance Unsafe food additive
PAF: PES FAD
PAC FOR COLLECTION: 71003A 09006A
COUNTRY: See Attachment
MANUFACTURER/ FEI#: See Attachment
CHARGES: The article is subject to refusal of admission pursuant to section 801(a)(3)in that it appears to bear or contain a poisonous or deleterious substance, which may render it injurious to health [Adulteration, section 402(a)(1)]" (Oasis Charge Code; POISONOUS)
and/or
The article is subject to refusal of admission pursuant to section 801(a)(3)in that it appears to bear or contain a food additive that is unsafe within the meaning of section 409 [Adulteration, section 402(a)(2)(C)(i)]" (Oasis Charge Code: UNSAFE ADD)
RECOMMENDING OFFICE: Division of Compliance, CVM (HFV-230)
REASON FOR ALERT: In March 2007, FDA became aware of the illness and death of cats and dogs associated with certain pet food. Subsequently, samples of the implicated pet food were analyzed and found to contain melamine. The consumption of pet food containing melamine may be associated with acute renal failure in cats. Investigations have revealed that the sour ce of the melamine was wheat gluten which is an ingredient in the pet food. The attachment to this alert includes manufacturers whose wheat gluten products have been found to contain melamine. GUIDANCE: Districts may detain without physical examination, products offered for importation from manufacturers and shippers listed in the Attachment to this import alert. Report wheat gluten samples found positive for melamine to Cathie Marshall, CVM, Division of Compliance, HFV-232, at (240) 276-9217.
Appropriate screening criteria have been set for wheat gluten from China and the Netherlands, as a country through which transshipping of Chinese wheat gluten may occur. Sampling has been recommended. Recommendations for detention without physical examination of firms with violative product should be forwarded to DIOP, HFC- 170.
For questions or issues concerning science, science policy, sample collection, analysis, preparation, or analytical methodology, contact Tom Savage, Division of Field Science, at 301-827-1026.
To enable the agency to assess whether the firm has identified the source of the problem, and has taken the appropriate steps to correct and prevent future occurrences, FDA recommends that a firm requesting removal from detention without physical examination provide the following information:
1. a. Results of the firm's investigation(s) into the problem of melamine contamination
b. Documentation showing corrective action(s)such as:
i. a description of the process(es) currently being used ii. verification that the process is adequate iii. measures that have been taken to prevent recontamination
c. Copies of three (3) production records showing the process, quantities processed, lot numbers and dates of processing.
AND
d. Documentation showing that a minimum of five (5) consecutive entries have been released by FDA based on third party laboratory analyses that show the shipments of wheat gluten do not contain melamine.
All requests for removal from DWPE should be forwarded to DIOP,(HFC-170) which in turn will forward the requests to CVM (HFV-230) for evaluation.
PRIORITIZATION GUIDANCE: I
FOI: No purging required
KEYWORDS: Feed, pet food, melamine, wheat gluten
PREPARED BY: Cathie Marshall, CVM, HFV-232, 240-276-9217 and Linda Wisniowski, DIOP, HFC-172, 301-443-6553
DATE LOADED INTO FIARS: March 30, 2007 ATTACHMENT 3/30/07
Firms and products currently under detention without physical examination
CHINA (CN)
Firm: Date DWPE Product /Code:
Xuzhou Anying Biologic Technology 3/30/07 Wheat gluten Development Company Ltd. 02F[][]08 Wangdian Industrial Zone, Peixian, CN-32, China 221623 FEI# 2000023594
This is just heartbreaking. Might I suggest that everyone check out Wysong pet food products (http://www.wysong.net). As far as I know, they are not part of any recalls, and my cats and dog love their food. You can order online and have everything shipped right to your door.
I think we should just Boycott those heathen nations!
Years ago a big stink was made about cheese and smoked meats from the old Eurpean countries which has been tried true for years but could not be imported because of red tape, let alone brought here by families who loved their ethinic food!
Europeans won't eat our chemical filled foods,
They don't seem to have a weight problem over there like we do here and the chemical see to mess with the harmones!
Makes you wonder where Gold medal flour and Pilsbury flour comes from?
No, not really.
About Gluten = Glue!
Cancer Those affected with celiac disease are required to maintain a strict, gluten-free diet. Those who continue to consume gluten are at higher risk of developing cancer, especially bowel cancer or intestinal lymphoma.
"Not necessarily. If the process was followed ISO doesn't care. Even better ISO paperwork will help you find the guilty if the process wasn't followed."
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Assuming no-one was lying on the paperwork....
It had better darn well come from Okalahoma or Kansas!
Earlier this summer I toured a warehouse just outside Chicago belonging to COSCO Logistics (Chinese company, no relation that I know of to the retailer). At that time I was surprised and somewhat befuddled to see nothing in the warehouse but several acres of pallets of Chinese wheat gluten. Now I finally have an idea of what it was being used for!
Not too many. About 50 companies used products from this company. This century will belong to China and this is a mathematical certainty thanks to globalism, multinational corporations and the greed of the US middle class that wants to pay $12 for a VCR nstead of supporting a domestic manufacyuring base and *gasp* not having the latest greatest cheapest electronic garbage.
You would be surprised how little contaminate it takes to taint or degrade a cargo. Even amongst similar products.
On petroleum tankers, carrying lube oil in tanks that previously contained diesel, we would clean tanks twice and send sailors into the tanks to hand wipe the bottom to remove any water drops. If we didn't hand wipe, the lab would pick up on the water content and reject the cargo. We would only load a foot in the tanks and wait for the lab results so we would only have to pump the minimal back to the refinery if it were to be rejected.
Rules fo prohibiting the use of the chemical tankers for food use were the results on many measurable (and tasteable) contaminations.
melamine - Company for melamine - Manufacturers, Exporters, Suppliers, Traders, Companies, Factories
Thanks you for your kind thoughts.
Thank you..
The people on FR are so thoughtful and caring.
Give hugs to Lola for me.
I got this on FR awhile back and thought I would share.
The Power of the Dog
by Rudyard Kipling
There is sorrow enough in the natural way
From men and women to fill our day;
And when we are certain of sorrow in store,
Why do we always arrange for more!
Brothers and Sisters, I bid you beware
Of giving your heart to a dog to tear.
Buy a pup and your money will buy
Love unflinching that cannot lie--
Perfect passion and worship fed
By a kick in the ribs or a pat on the head.
Nevertheless, it is hardly fair
To risk your heart for a dog to tear.
When the fourteen years which Nature permits
Are closing in asthma, or tumor, or fits,
And the vet's unspoken prescription runs
To lethal chambers or loaded guns,
Then you will find - it's your own affair -
But . . . you've given your heart to a dog to tear.
When the body that lived at your single will,
With its whimper of welcome, is stilled (how still);
When the spirit that answered your every mood
Is gone - wherever it goes - for good,
You will discover how much you care,
And will give your heart to a dog to tear.
We've sorrow enough in the natural way
When it comes to burying Christian clay.
Our loves are not given, but only lent,
At compound interest of cent per cent.
Though it is not always the case, I believe,
That the longer we've kept 'em, the more do we grieve:
For, when debts are payable, right or wrong,
A short-time loan is as bad as a long -
So why in-Heaven (before we are there)
Should we give our hearts to a dog to tear?
.
Bless your heart for losing your baby.
__________________________________________
Bless his heart for being my baby.
We buy gluten flour by the pound since we make all our own bread. Called up Winco (chain store in NW where we buy it in bulk) to find out where they get it. Answer:
Bob's Red Mill, in Portland Oregon. Called them up:
All their wheat gluten and all flour products are from Kansas. At least the gluten was, now I'm getting info mixed up with Giusto's. Called them too. All their flour is US grown.
We recently ordered from the natural food store 25# of mung beans and buckwheat groats. To our shock, once we got them home we saw "product of China" on them both, and supposedly "organic". They were both seriously bad quality. After the news about the poison pet food, we threw them all away.
Nothing from China ever touches our lips. Knowingly. I've read a few places that China has a lot of grains right now, stored for a while, and is dumping on the market cheap.
I made calls to another wholesale natural food distributor and all the buckwheat and mung they have is from China. I have never, ever seen these products of Chinese origin before.
Get it from Bob's Red Mill or Giusto's. Note my post above.
What little info I found earlier tonight correlates with your anecdote that much of the wheat glutin products were found at health food stores.
This is in reference to this on the AVMA website;
Timely Topics in Nutrition: Aflatoxicosis in dogs and dealing with suspected contaminated commercial foods (JAVMA, June 1, 2006)
On here:
http://www.avma.org/aa/menufoodsrecall/default.asp
Scroll down and click on that link. that says Timely topic.
Plus have read where menu foods had reports of bad food on June 12,2006.
Why did they wait soooooo long.
Ship is not cleaned completely
Ship is filled with wheat gluten
Wheat gluten is u loaded in US along
with the melamine
And Voila...dead cats and dogs
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