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Posted on 04/19/2007 4:58:56 PM PDT by Arizona Carolyn
WASHINGTON // Federal investigators are probing whether Chinese producers laced a key ingredient in pet food with an industrial chemical in order to boost the price of their shipments
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Referring to the contamination that has prompted the recall of more than 100 brands of pet food, investigators are trying to determine whether Chinese producers purposely added melamine to their wheat gluten shipments to Menu Foods.
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(Excerpt) Read more at baltimoresun.com ...
The article goes on to say the melamine “may” have been added on purpose to raise the nitrogen level to make it seem there was more protein .....
More info........
Isn’t it just f#$king wonderful that we gave the Chicoms Most Favored Nation status?
And our govt. politicians gave them a most favored trade status.
...The plot thickens.
Just wonderful.
This is beyond criminal.
Is there a ping list for these pet food recall articles or are we using the kitty and doggie ping lists?
Nitrogen levels are measured to calculate the protein content, which determines the value of a shipment
But FDA Commissioner Andrew C. von Eschenbach told the senator that investigators haven't been able to make the trip because they cannot get visas from the Chinese government.
IMO the Chinese have seriously underestimated the American Public's love for their pets... if this is proven to be true ----
I don’t have a set ping list..... ping anyone and everyone you know who may be interested...
Ping
I don’t have a link right now.
It sure is one Queen Mother Smoking Gun though isn’t it?
WTH - Was it a “bonus” bag?
Incredible...........
Laboratory tests on the Natural Balance products indicated that they contained melamine. Natural Balance doesn't use wheat gluten, but recently began using rice protein concentrate, which the testing indicated had melamine.
The rice protein was distributed in the United States by Wilbur-Ellis Company. On Sunday, the San Francisco company found a bag with the word "melamine" stenciled on the side in a shipment of rice protein concentrate it had received from China.
The bag tested positive for melamine, and the company has sealed the rest of the shipment in a warehouse until it completes safety tests, Wilbur-Ellis said on its Web site.
ping.. and anyone else you know who is following all of this
ping — I appologize, I pinged you to the wrong place a minute ago, asked mods to delete that... this is what I meant to ping you to
Yes a new additive has been contaminated!
A lot of dogs died before Cornel was able to tie the deaths back to all foods made by Diamond and distributed East of the Rockies.
Thanks, Humidston.
Pinging y’all.
premiums paid for making the "grade"...
Is there a list somewhere of ALL the recalled/poisoned foods? Is it only Menu or are other companies now involved? I keep seeing these articles, but lately none of them are listing the affected foods.
Well....it's got wheat gluten in it.
Natural Balance — made by Diamond Foods added their Venison to the list yesterday. I think I know where I may find a comprehensive list.. if I find it I’ll post it here.
There was another thread on this topic alone (refusing to allow inspections)—and I agree with those who say we should just say, “Ok, but we’re canceling ALL orders until we can inspect the food.”
Pet food outrage ping
Nuke’m!!
Good site—thank you!
Good site for up to date pet food info.
Blue Buffalo:
We have taken this action because the rice protein concentrate used for this run was obtained from Wilbur-Ellis, the same company who supplied this ingredient to Natural Balance. Test results received late last evening (4/18) indicated that this rice protein concentrate tested positive for melamine. This is the first and only time our manufacturing partner sourced an ingredient from Wilbur-Ellis, and we had no knowledge that they had imported the ingredients from China.
We have advised the FDA of this finding and will be working closely with them on this issue.
According to the blog where this was posted:
They may have advised the FDA, but the FDA just said they can’t reveal the companies that got the rice protein.
They may have advised the FDA, but the FDA just said they can’t reveal the companies that got the rice protein.
I wonder why the he!! not?
Every nation in the WTO has to grant MFN to all the others. China joined the WTO in 2001.
The FDA has this website.
FDA: Pet Food Recall
www.fda.gov/oc/opacom/hottopics/petfood.html
thank you
Time to sue China.
Pet food toxin used in pig feed By Carrie Peyton Dahlberg - Bee Staff Writer Published 2:34 pm PDT Thursday, April 19, 2007
The chemical linked to cat and dog deaths on two continents has made it into pig feed, federal officials said Thursday, although it wasn't immediately clear whether any pigs that ate the melamine were later eaten by people. Melamine has caused tumors in rats, and shouldn't be used in animal feed, according to regulators and toxicologists.
For more on this developing story, come back to sacbee.com
see post 23 for link to list
This just makes me sick. One of my kitties is acting strange, kind of listless and so on—not vomiting or anything. We don’t use any of the foods on the list, but the more I read, the more it seems that this just might be in every cat food. I just don’t know what to feed these kitties.
Me, too..... who are they protecting? Certainly not our dogs and cats.
ping
mom4kittys called Natures Logic and got some free samples for her cats — last I heard they liked the food and it is grain-free...
Thank you, bookmarked.
Thank you! I’m starting to wonder IF there’s anything that’s actually safe.
I’m going to look into that brand, thank you. No more kibbles for the kitties, I guess. :(
They will be better off in the long run.
WHY would we buy food of all things, for dogs and cats, from a country which hates us and eats pets?
Beats me.... and Blue Buffalo (which is regualarly on The Whole Dog Journals Top Ten Foods list) claimed this was the first time they purchased from this source (cost cutting — eh???)
There are brands of pet food that are produced right here. They probably cost more, but one can buy it.
The food doesn’t actually come from China, the pet food that is. An ingredient in the dog food (wheat gluten in the first recall, and rice protein in the second recall) are just one product that is used in the manufacture of the food.
Check your local grocer next time and see where the shrimp in the grocery store comes from...China or Thailand, most likely. How much Chinese produced wheat gluten or rice protein has made it into the human food in this country...that’s the question we should probably be asking.
We spent a couple months in China a few years ago. They don’t necessarily “hate” pets, they just eat them. We saw cats, and dogs, slaughtered in the local food market.
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