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
You have to belong to an elite club to even be ALLOWED to grow freakin PEANUTS!!
Ask jummah...
Tainted Wheat Gluten Sold as "Food Grade" (2 comments )
Del Monte Foods has confirmed that the melamine-tainted wheat gluten used in several of its recalled pet food products was supplied as a "food grade" additive, raising the likelihood that contaminated wheat gluten might have entered the human food supply.
"Yes, it is food grade," Del Monte spokesperson Melissa Murphy-Brown wrote in reply to an e-mail query.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/david-goldstein/tainted-wheat-gluten-sold_b_44743.html
I apologize for the link but rules are rules.
Ever since the first time I saw some fish for sale that was marked as from China, I have been worried that China would actually use their market-dominating tactics to gain an inside line to actually attack us. No, I'm not suggesting that this is an attack, BUT - it surely is highly suspicious. In fact, I would not be surprised if terrorists thought they could poison Americans, and instead killed some pets...
Bless your heart for losing your baby.
Awk! Do I have Melanine or other "special" additives in my wheat bread that we don't yet know about??
No. of Employees: 51 - 100 People
Annual Sales Range (USD): US$2.5 Million - US$5 Million
Year Established: 1997
Legal Representative/CEO: Mr. Mao lujun
http://www.alibaba.com/company/10926883.html
"Imported foods need to go through the same rigor as US companies' foods."
It should, but it doesn't.
Most of the food inspected here in the US is inspected at the processing plant. Imported food just comes in: no inspection.
Scary business!
I think you might be surprised - Americans have developed a taste for cheap - and have a short memory to boot (just think about how many former WOT supporters have turned their backs completely).
any Name: Xuzhou Anying Biologic Technology Development Co, Ltd
Contact Person: Kaipin Liu
Address: Wangdian Industrial Pei County Jiangsu P.R. XuZhou JiangSu
Zip: 221600
Telephone: 86-516-89741888
Fax: 86-516-89741156
Web Site: http://www.xzay.com
Melamine is also a fertilizer, very popular in countries where the government doesn't want people to have access to ammonium nitrate.If your cabinets and drawers are all pretty inside with a smooth (likely) white finish, that too is melamine.
Yeah, and it's a precursor for Formica as well.
An Inconvenient Truth
Unfortunately, some idiot using false "science", innuendo, and misleading "facts" has already wasted that perfectly good title.
It's in the bread flour that I used to make a pizza crust with today. I mean, this really isn't news is it? I thought it was common knowledge that wheat gluten was a widely used ingredient. Is there a difference between wheat gluten and "vital" wheat gluten?
Anyway, nice to know that free trade is doing such a wonderful job diversifying our food supply, John Locke's invisible hand and all.
No, not really.
What was that a reference to?
If it hasn't already.
OK lets be civil about this. It is all Milwaukee_Guy's
fault. Get him LOL
That is not exactly true. As I live right here in the middle of Rice, and Soybean production in Arkansas (and this year - record corn planting), and most of the people I know are either farmers or have business with farmers, your assessment isn't exactly correct.
I know of no farmers paid to not plant. Every acre available is planted. The subsidies are paid in a variety of ways - but mostly as direct supports.
The only fields that don't get planted are either due to the farmer getting behind, or because the field is going through a normal "rest" in the crop rotation cycle.
But I do agree with the sentiment of your post - I believe all farm subsidies should be eliminated. Let the farmers plant what they want. Let them sink or swim based on their production and business decisions. There are already incentives to plant more in-demand crops (like corn and now soybeans). Allow the market to dictate the crops and production needs.
Of course, the real crooks in the farm industry are the grain mills that make their biggest profit by docking farmers for "imperfections" in the crop (weed seed, moisture, etc.).
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