Posted on 04/20/2007 8:56:13 PM PDT by Milwaukee_Guy
Federal officials confirmed Thursday they are investigating whether pork products intended for humans are contaminated with the same industrial chemical that prompted a massive pet food recall and sickened cats and dogs nationwide.
Researchers also have identified three other contaminants in the urine and kidneys of animals sickened or killed after eating the recalled foods, including cyanuric acid, a chemical commonly used in pool chlorination, three researchers told the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review. Cyanuric acid is what most likely sickened pets, one researcher said.
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We are now in week -five- of this debacle. The threat grows on a daily basis with -no- end in sight.
Today is the first confirmation melamine and it's derivatives have entered the human food chain. This is no great surprise to the dozens of Freepers who have been reporting this developing news.
How long until we get serious and stop all food and food additives from China?
Pet Food Recall Ping!
archer daniels midland,
supermarket to the world.
looks like they’ll have to test the world’s food.
More of the wonders of GLOBALISM.
Thank you MULTINATIONAL MORONS!
Ruh Roh
Our food supply is so vulnerable.
The terrorists are watching...
Safe food? Don’t bet on it
It should frighten - heck, downright terrify - anyone who puts dinner on the family table that the FDA doesn’t have enough inspectors to keep toxic ingredients out of the nation’s food supply. Just 1.3 percent of fruits, vegetables, nuts and seafood imported into the United States is inspected before it gets to grocery store shelves. As for the other 98.7 percent, well, all we can do is hope that it’s safe.
That’s hardly reassuring. Americans were shocked when cats and dogs were sickened or died as a result of pet food containing contaminated wheat gluten from China. Imagine the outcry if the victims were people instead of pets. That’s not too far-fetched.
The average American eats about 260 pounds of imported food a year, not to mention products that contain imported ingredients, including Chinese wheat gluten. And as imports grow, the Food and Drug Administration’s inspection force is shrinking.
The health of Americans depends on the federal government’s ability to ensure that the food supply is safe; without adequate inspections, the FDA can’t reliably make that claim. It’s perhaps unrealistic to inspect every shipment. But the government can, and should, do better. The inspections that do take place frequently uncover bacteria, filth and unsafe additives such as pesticides or cancer-causing agents.
If the government is serious about protecting Americans from dangerous contaminants - not to mention bioterrorism - it needs to add inspectors to the FDA’s payroll and tighten regulations. (The U.S. Department of Agriculture, which oversees a significant but far smaller part of the imported food chain, has more stringent inspection requirements for imported meat and poultry.)
One illness (or death, heaven forbid) attributed to the gap-filled inspection process is too many. At the very least, the government should improve the odds of intercepting the bad stuff.
http://www.wilmingtonstar.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070417/EDITORIAL/704170318/-1/frontpage
So true.
Why the heck are we getting anything from china??????
This is getting annoying.
Reerey!
So how much of this stuff is in Panda Express food?
Honestly, I have yet to hear about this on the cable news stations.
Toxicologists have been saying for some time now that they didn’t think melamine alone could be causing the symptoms being seen in cats and dogs eating recalled foods, and suggested it might be a marker or co-contaminant. Tonight, Karen Roebuck of the Pittsburgh Times-Review (in an article titled "Humans at risk from tained pet food?") reported that researchers have:
…identified three other contaminants in the urine and kidneys of animals sickened or killed after eating the recalled foods, including cyanuric acid, a chemical commonly used in pool chlorination, three researchers told the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review. Cyanuric acid is what most likely sickened pets, one researcher said.
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Researchers isolated a spoke-like crystal in pet food, wheat gluten and in the urine, kidneys and tissues of infected animals. That crystal serves as a marker for determining what animals were sickened in the outbreak. About 30 percent of those crystals are made up of melamine, one investigator said, and researchers spent several weeks trying to identify what is in the remainder.
Researchers in at least three labs found cyanuric acid, amilorine and amiloride — all by-products of melamine — in the crystals of animals’ urine, tissues and kidneys, according to Dr. Brent Hoff, a veterinarian and clinical toxicologist and pathologist, at the University of Guelph, in Ontario, Canada; Richard Goldstein, associate professor of medicine at Cornell University’s College of Veterinary Medicine and a kidney specialist, and Dr. Thomas Mullaney, acting director of Michigan State University’s Center for Population and Animal Health.
Michigan State’s lab so far has found only the amilorine and amiloride, but Mullaney said he was aware of at least three other labs finding the cyanuric acid in the animals. The FDA asked labs involved in the pet food recall to test for the three chemicals.
Finding cyanuric acid is the more significant finding, Hoff, Goldstein and Mullaney said, although they are not yet certain how toxic it is to animals
FDA: Pet Food Spiked On Purpose?
Calif. Hog Farm Under Quarantine
WASHINGTON — Imported ingredients used in recalled pet food may have been intentionally spiked with an industrial chemical to boost their apparent protein content, federal officials said Thursday.
That’s one theory being pursued by the Food and Drug Administration as it investigates how the chemical, melamine, contaminated at least two ingredients used to make more than 100 brands of dog and cat foods.
In California, state agriculture officials placed a hog farm under quarantine after melamine was found in pig urine there. Additional testing was under way to determine whether the chemical was present in the meat produced by American Hog Farm in Ceres since April 3, the state Department of Food and Agriculture said.
Your Tax Dollars At Work !!! Finally they admit it’s spread
to “Sheeple-Food”...
‘Cuz it’s cheap...
you wont hear it
because it stifles corporate growth projection portfolio flash report curve
This is sick, sick, sick............
They could have stopped the current crisis in its tracks, shutting down all food imports from China until the Chinese allowed US inspectors in. Of course, that didn’t happen.
And don’t wait for them to let us know who has been buying the tainted supplies. They wait for the companies to make their own announcements. No telling how many companies haven’t let the word out yet.
the whole world just loves us, i am sure they care oh so much what quality products they give us
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