How Close Was Tainted Wheat To Human Food?

CBS News ^ | Friday April 13, 2007 | Milwaukee_Guy

[Milwaukee_Guy]

"...sources tell CBS News that the FDA had tracked at least one suspect batch of wheat gluten into the human food supply, quietly quarantined some products and notified the Centers For Disease Control and Prevention to watch for new patients admitted to hospitals with renal or kidney failure."

[DvdMom]

Thanks for the info !
I don’t drink beer , so I’m lucky there !

I won’t use soy sauce that’s for sure .

I want to avoid all wheat gluten too .....

[WestCoastGal]

Thanks for posting the whole print out.....links sometimes disappear.

I am shocked but not surprised at tll the ones marked filthy!!!

I checked what this was.......ason: VETDRUGRES
Section: 402(a)(2)(C)(ii); 801(a)(3); ADULTERATION
Charge: The article appears to contain a new animal drug (or
conversion product thereof) that is unsafe within the
meaning of section 512.

and this......... Reason: COL ADDED
Section: 501(a)(4)(A), 801(a)(3); ADULTERATION
Charge: The article appears to bear or contain, for the
purpose of coloring only, a color additive which is unsafe
within the meaning of Section 721(a).

http://www.fda.gov/ora/oasis/ora_oasis_viol.html

Ping to those who may be interested

[MHGinTN]

No, it won’t be allowed to get ugly because the truth will be suppressed and deflected in deference to the business community ... the same way the truth of the border invasion is suppressed or deflected in deference to the business interests.

[B4Ranch]

That certainly is an interesting website. I took notice that Mexican exports seems to get tagged for filth and pesticides rather frequently.

[reformedliberal]

For those able to digest wheat gluten, it is my understanding that the gluten is developed in the wheat dough by the kneading process. Kneading is controlled to not over-develop the gluten, AFAIK, because over-developed gluten makes the product tough. For baked goods, I do not think wheat gluten would have to be added.

To make wheat gluten out of whole wheat flour is simple: you simply wash and knead the flour with cold water. The starch is washed off and the elastic gluten is left. It is a sort of rubbery mass and needs to be either textured, fermented or flavored in order to be palatable. Years ago, before there were millions of products catering to vegetarians and people on restricted diets, some folks made gluten by this process to add some inexpensive protein to their diet. I tried it a few times, out of curiosity. I could never make it flavorful enough to enjoy and the texture was rubbery. I suspect it is the chief ingredient of the recalled dog food labeled as *slices*. Any *meat* therein probably was there to flavor the gluten.

Our dog is enjoying homecooked meals. I buy liver at $1.50/pound and mix in about 1/2 pound with whatever we are eating that night. I have also begun to read all labels closely and am avoiding items with gluten listed as an additive. However, we eat few processed foods and right now, I trust just about nothing unless I know exactly where it came from. Hard to do, these days.

We don't take a lot of supplements or other medications, but I wonder how much of this may have found its way into various pills, both OTC and prescription?

[HungarianGypsy]

He says that the Chinese routinely use mass quantities of DDT and other poisons on their crops,

But there are some freepers who have said that the U.S. banning DDT was a bad thing. You mean it's not. /sarc

[Darnright]

>I would Ban All food from China but both Dems & Repubs WON’T !<i

I find it ironic that the environmental lobby has a fit over genetically engineered plants, but yawns over the outsourcing of the nation’s food supply to third world countries which aren’t under our strict quality controls.

[Abigail Adams]

“...sources tell CBS News that the FDA had tracked at least one suspect batch of wheat gluten into the human food supply, quietly quarantined some products and notified the Centers For Disease Control and Prevention to watch for new patients admitted to hospitals with renal or kidney failure.”

Yeah, so instead of informing everyone in a timely manner to avoid these suspect foods, they are just going to sit back and see how many people get sick. Nice.

[RegulatorCountry]

Personally I really don’t care if the screw America for a buck crowd gets upset.

Actually, I don't either. I've always considered myself pro-business, but this sort of thing is beyond the pale.

[null and void]

Think the public might want to know what products?

"The public? What do I care for the public?" [with apologies to Cornelius Vanderbilt]

[RegulatorCountry]

A measure of wheat for a penny, and three measures of barley for a penny; and see thou hurt not the oil and the wine.

[null and void]

And you know what oxen leave behind them, right?

Hoof prints?

[null and void]

Time to introduce China to the neutron bomb? Or did Clinton already introduce them to the plans for constructing their own neutron bombs?

He did.

[null and void]

“I’m sure there are some Haitian parents who think the risk is pretty big after some 86 children died due to poisonous Chinese cough syrup some years ago.” ~ cripplecreek

But how many units of the syrup were sold? And what was the profit?! ~ brownsfan

Wrong question. Are their coughs gone or not?

[MHGinTN]

You’ve been paying attention to the times! Frightening, isn’t it?

[RegulatorCountry]

Frightening, isn’t it?

I've never really understood that passage until now.

[LucyT]

With thanks to Vn_survivor_67-68 for the link, here’s an article with a somewhat misleading headline. Excerpts:

XUZHOU, China, April 10 —
Some American regulators suspect there was deliberate mixing of substances. They are looking into the possibility that melamine, the chemical linked to the pets’ deaths, was mixed into the wheat gluten in China as a way to bolster the protein content, according to a person who was briefed on the investigation.
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This week, the Chinese government reported that an elderly woman died and 202 people were sickened at a hospital north of here after they consumed a breakfast cereal that turned out to be laced with rat poison.

http://www.heraldtribune.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070412/ZNYT01/704120931

[Paul Ross]

Long suspected and finally confirmed. The Chinese wheat gluten was certified as -human grade-. Thousands of tons of the stuff has not been accounted for. Many pet food additives are certified as human grade.

It is only natural to suppose, knowing the enmity of the PRC's communists, that we, the people of the U.S., were always the targets. And we may have already been subjected to these contaminants.

Let's hope we have had a sufficient wake-up-call from the "canary in the coal mine" effect of losing our pets to these insidious poisoners...who are already declining to accept any liability. Just as you would expect of an outright enemy.

[1COUNTER-MORTER-68]

Ain’t this what we were posting two weeks ago ?!?!??
Tip of the iceberg ?!??

[null and void]

Just as you would expect of an outright enemy.

Are you saying that a country with PERMANENT Most Favored Nation Status is an enemy?????