Poisoned Pet Food Additive Being Siezed and Chinese Company Identified!

FDA - Center for Vetrinary Medicine ^ | Sunday April 1, 2007 | Milwaukee_Guy

[trek]

"Why the hell would the United States or Canada need to import any grain product from China?"

That is what I have been wondering. I thought ag products were the one place where we were supposed to have a competitive advantage.

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Why the hell would the United States or Canada need to import any grain product from China?

Why the hell would the United States or Canada need to import H1-B professionals from China?

[Milwaukee_Guy]

BIG PING!

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As you say.

[tflabo]

Yeh...like 'Whatever happened to Kansas' (wheat)

sounds like a liberal book title.

[Dysart]

"The full name of the company is: Xuzhou Anying Biologic Technology Development Company Ltd. This company also exports wheat flour, cornstarch, sweet potato starch, protein powder, zinc oxide, carrots, garlic, ginger, and other agricultural products."

While I suspected as much, this is quite unsettling!

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How long would it take to relabel this stuff as coming from "Fu-Ling Yu Agri Products"?

[Milwaukee_Guy]

"This company also exports wheat flour, cornstarch, sweet potato starch, protein powder, zinc oxide, carrots, garlic, ginger, and other agricultural products."

This story is going to go ballistic.

[null and void]

Nahhh.

Nothing to see here, move along...™

[Western Phil]

"Why the hell would the United States or Canada need to import any grain product from China?"

Its probably US products shipped back after the addition of the extenders.

[SE Mom]

Yes they do...which in itself is an eye-opener. Getting a federal agency to move at ALL is something of a miracle.

[Dysart]

Not to worry. I'm certain that we can rely on full cooperation in this matter from the Chinese Govt. After all, they surely have the wellbeing of Americans and/or their pets high on their priority list.

[snowsislander]

It looks their English website is http://www.xzay.com/english/index.asp.

[freeangel]

"The heat is on"

I also think the heat should be on MENU products. That company has been totally unsympathetic towards the pet owners who have had animals that died. People should be writing to the companies that used them as a manufacturer and told that they will boycott until a new(hopefully, American company) takes over.

[McGavin999]

Fifty cents a pound versus seventy cents a pound!

Well, now it's $1.50 a pound when you include the cost of the recalls and the law suits. That cheap wheat doesn't look so cheap now does it?

How many people will never trust them again and will never buy their products?

[sweetiepiezer]

Because I just about had an anxiety attack this afternoon while shopping for pet food.

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I have been having attacks since my dog got sick and more so since we had to put him down a week after the recall, even though menu foods and the AVMA knew about something very wrong in June
Go to the AVMA website and see where it says they had suspicions of it on June first.
Makes my blood run cold.

[sweetiepiezer]

Thanks M_guy.

[yldstrk]

Some people will do anyting for money. Putting plastic as filler in the wheat gluten so it weighs more.that is low down dirty rotten nasty lying cheating stealing and beyond the pale. May they rot in hail.

[MaDeuce]

"Some pet food company is going to get sued flat for that saving."

Man can you see the laywers around the US just drooling to get one of these cases and maybe make it a class-action.

You can see the court room drama ...

"Call little Cindy to the witness stand."

Little Cindy walks up with pictures of here dearly departed little Fluffy kitty, crying all the way to the stand.

Key Lay and all the other Enron scumbags would be saints compared to the "Big cat/dog Food" company executives.

This would turn into a capital murder case by the end of the day.

[VictoryGal]

Imported foods need to go through the same rigor as US companies' foods.

I wonder if anyone was paid off to benefit our good trading partner friends and debt holders, the red Chinese? Now that's something the Dims should investigate, if they're in the investigating mood-- rather than the non-crimes.