Posted on 04/05/2007 2:55:36 PM PDT by blam
China rejects blame for pet food recall
By David Barboza Published: April 5, 2007
SHANGHAI: China said Thursday that it had no record of exporting any agricultural products that could have tainted the pet food that has been linked to the deaths of at least 16 cats and dogs in the United States.
The Chinese government said that wheat gluten, which has been linked to a pet food recall in North America, had not been exported from China to the United States or Canada. The government also disputed some reports that a chemical called Aminopterin, a rat poison, could have entered the pet food supplies in North America from China. The government said the chemical is not used in rat poison in China.
"China has nothing to do with the pet poisoning incident," the government said in a statement on the Web site of the General Administration of Quality Supervision, Inspection and Quarantine.
The government announcement came just days after the U.S. government halted all imports of wheat gluten from China and after the U.S. Food and Drug Administration identified a Chinese company as the supplier of the tainted pet food ingredient.
But Thursday, the Chinese company identified by the agency said that it had never shipped wheat gluten to the United States or Canada.
"We are a trading company and don't manufacture the product,"
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Well alrighty then.
Well that’s settled. [/sarc]
Chuck Fina. Buncha Commies.
Bullcrap.
Trial run? Pet food today, people food tomorrow?
China denied SARS in the first days, weeks and months too.
That’s one of the thoughts that came across my mind....
It is very disheartening that they couldn’t immediately say for certain that the same products weren’t in the human food supply.
Rejection denied !
Well, just to be fair,
we didn't all go extinct
from SARS like some feared . . .
I'd sooner trust a rattlesnake than the Chinese government.
How do you know when a filthy little yellow-bellied murderous Commie is lying?
He’s beating his gums.
Brown Rice, Whole Wheat Flour, Flaxseed, Ground Beef and a little Bone meal will provide man’s best friend with a meal more worthy then the junk they call dog food.
Yet ANOTHER benefit of the multinational corporate culture of out-sourcing to the LOWEST bidder.
NOTICE TO THOSE WHO LOST A PET DUE TO THIS SCREW-UP:
GOOD LUCK WITH THAT LAW SUIT FOR DAMAGES FROM THE CHINESE.
Wait till melamine or another toxin gets into the HUMAN food chain here. Why, a few hundred thousand dead might make us rethink that old “Buy America” thing, huh?
They're a bit late to the party with that claim. Only one lab said it found aminopterin, and no other lab, including the FDA's was able to confirm that finding. We really don't know enough about the whole chain to dispute specific claims by the company or the Chinese government. It's possible the Chinese company was just a broker involved in the sale, and didn't manufacture or handle the product in question.
On our end of the the line, many veterinary experts are saying that melamine is unlikely to be the responsible agent, since previous study data indicates it couldn't produce such severe effects in dogs (though they say it might do so in cats, who are more sensitive, and for whom there is no melamine toxicity data -- but that wouldn't explain the dead and critically ill dogs). Until we can get a firm handle on WHAT has been poisoning these pets, I think we'd do well to listen to what the Chinese are saying, and consider the possibility that some or all of it may be true.
As for me, I keep having visions of Islamo-terrorists watching all this with great enthusiasm, as the mighty US government is unable to firmly pin down the identity or source of a poison that got into a bulk shipment of a food ingredient that could just as easily have gone into human food.
I would agree we didn’t go extinct, but I would offer, to be fair, IF China had been on the up and up about SARS, it may may well have been less of a problem than it was.
Anybody know off the top of their heads where I can find a (real time—snort) list of the affected products?
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