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Joint Update: FDA/USDA Trace Adulterated Animal Feed to Poultry
FDA website ^ | April 30, 2007 | FDA

Posted on 05/01/2007 8:03:51 PM PDT by anonsquared

WASHINGTON, April 30, 2007 – The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) and the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) have learned that byproducts from pet food manufactured with contaminated wheat gluten imported from China have been used in chicken feed on some farms in the state of Indiana. This information came to light as part of the continuing investigation into imported rice protein concentrate and wheat gluten that have been found to contain melamine and melamine-related compounds.

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TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: betterlatethannever; contamination; fda; foodsafety; melamine; petfoodrecall
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http://www.fda.gov/ora/fiars/ora_import_ia9929.html IMPORT ALERT #99-29, "DETENTION WITHOUT PHYSICAL EXAMINATION OF ALL VEGETABLE PROTEIN PRODUCTS FROM CHINA FOR ANIMAL OR HUMAN FOOD USE DUE TO THE PRESENCE OF MELAMINE AND/OR MELAMINE ANALOGS" PRODUCTS: Wheat Gluten Rice Gluten Rice Protein Rice Protein Concentrate Corn Gluten Corn Gluten Meal Corn By-Products Soy Protein Soy Gluten Proteins (includes amino acids and protein hydrosylates) Mung Bean Protein

http://www.usatoday.com/money/industries/2007-04-30-chinese-imports-usat_N.htm FDA limits Chinese food additive imports

1 posted on 05/01/2007 8:03:56 PM PDT by anonsquared
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To: anonsquared
Can't the Federal regulators get anything right?
And why in hell can't they especially watch what is coming in from Red China?
2 posted on 05/01/2007 8:07:40 PM PDT by vox_freedom (John 16:2 yea, the hour come, that whosoever killeth you, will think that he doth a service to God)
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3 posted on 05/01/2007 8:07:48 PM PDT by mom4kittys (If velvet could sing, it would sound like Josh Groban)
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4 posted on 05/01/2007 8:08:23 PM PDT by mom4kittys (If velvet could sing, it would sound like Josh Groban)
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To: anonsquared

Please FDA Let the Consumer Decide.
In today’s FDA press conference they talked about the 2.5 - 3 million chicken that were fed feed from China that was tainted with melamime (and possibly other substances) back in February.

The chickens were processed (killed) and distributed (sold to you).
But they will not tell us the names of the companies that sold these chickens.

Chicago Tribune: You say it’s too late to do a recall, but why not name the companies and let the consumers decide?

http://www.cnn.com/2007/US/05/01/recall.riddle/index.html?section=cnn_latest

Anyone have any reoccurrence of what they thought was stomach flu lately?


5 posted on 05/01/2007 8:08:37 PM PDT by sweetiepiezer
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To: mom4kittys

Thanks for the ping.

Our little pets were the canaries...............

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rKfSsEI9BMc


6 posted on 05/01/2007 8:11:13 PM PDT by sweetiepiezer
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To: mom4kittys

Thanks for the ping.

Our little pets were the canaries...............

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rKfSsEI9BMc


7 posted on 05/01/2007 8:11:36 PM PDT by sweetiepiezer
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To: vox_freedom; All

What I want to know is - why are we selling our corn and wheat for others to consume around the globe while being forced to buy China’s tainted products because the government refuses to allow products labeled with country of origin? I would be willing to pay more to know all the ingredients are home grown, but as it stands now I’m not allowed to know that.


8 posted on 05/01/2007 8:14:43 PM PDT by anonsquared
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To: anonsquared

As would I!


9 posted on 05/01/2007 8:18:45 PM PDT by Arizona Carolyn ( If you want on or off the pet and human food and drug ping list let me know)
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To: anonsquared
This is a food safety and homeland security issue. Allowing any and all food to come to the US without scrutiny and testing is putting our health, indeed lives, at risk -- not to mention our pets. This entire issue has my blood boiling. China's regulatory atmosphere regarding food safety is apparently non-existent. Take that and their general lack of ethics as it pertains to product labeling and testing and it adds up to a very dangerous situation.

The FDA and USDA should have been watching and testing imports on a constant and continual basis. THAT IS THEIR JOB and responsibility. We now have contaminated ingredients in our food supply from a Communist country that could care less about our safety. Yet our administration has done nothing to protect us.
Shameful and despicable. Will it take the DemocRATS to hold accountabilities and deal with these issues on behalf of the people?

10 posted on 05/01/2007 8:24:46 PM PDT by vox_freedom (John 16:2 yea, the hour come, that whosoever killeth you, will think that he doth a service to God)
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To: vox_freedom

I’m surprised companies aren’t doing checks on their own additives. Something doesn’t add up here...


11 posted on 05/01/2007 8:25:13 PM PDT by GOPJ ( When great forces are on the move in the world, we learn we are spirits--not animals."- Churchill)
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To: sweetiepiezer

Sorry for the double post.

I just got a FReep mail for a prayer request.............
Here is part of it.

” please put the word out for healing for Carol, she is in a bad way with her kidneys and digestive system and has me frightened for her life. She cannot keep any food down”

DIDN’T THE FDA HAVE A WARNING OUT AT THE START OF THE PET RECALL FOR THE CDC TO REPORT ANY KIDNEY FAILURE IN HUMANS?

I have it somewhere in my vast files.

Waiting to see what these circumstances are with Carol.

Prayers for her.


12 posted on 05/01/2007 8:27:13 PM PDT by sweetiepiezer
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To: GOPJ
I’m surprised companies aren’t doing checks on their own additives. Something doesn’t add up here...

Well, yes they should, is the answser, but oversight and testing of all imports, esp. food products is a primary responsibility of US regulators.

13 posted on 05/01/2007 8:28:22 PM PDT by vox_freedom (John 16:2 yea, the hour come, that whosoever killeth you, will think that he doth a service to God)
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To: anonsquared

My dog has the right idea. He just goes out and kills a squirrel and eats it every day. I haven’t had to worry too much about the dog-food disaster in the past week! Now I’m going to have to start learning to make Brunswick Stew with the critters he catches because it looks like our food supply is getting contaminated too.


14 posted on 05/01/2007 8:33:12 PM PDT by Fairview ( Everybody is somebody else's weirdo.)
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To: devolve; ntnychik; PhilDragoo; dixiechick2000; bitt

More ‘bad food’ news! Cluck, cluck!


15 posted on 05/01/2007 8:34:05 PM PDT by potlatch (Forgiveness is the fragrance the violet sheds on the heel that has crushed it. M.Twain)
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To: Fairview
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16 posted on 05/01/2007 8:37:27 PM PDT by vox_freedom (John 16:2 yea, the hour come, that whosoever killeth you, will think that he doth a service to God)
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To: anonsquared

JUST WONDERFUL!! After the pet food scare, I’ve been cooking chicken & veggies for my pets!!! When will the FDA be taken to task about this?????????????????????


17 posted on 05/01/2007 8:48:44 PM PDT by blondee123
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To: blondee123

“Trickling water, if not stopped, will become a mighty river.” - Confucius (551-479BC) Chinese Ethical Teacher, Philosopher


18 posted on 05/01/2007 9:22:16 PM PDT by sweetiepiezer
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To: mom4kittys

Here is a blog of the FDA press conference today.

http://www.petconnection.com/blog/2007/05/01/pet-food-recall-liveblogging-51-fda-press-conference/


19 posted on 05/01/2007 9:47:02 PM PDT by sweetiepiezer
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To: vox_freedom

I think at this point the government is on full CYA and we’re probably only hearing the tenth of it.


20 posted on 05/01/2007 10:06:57 PM PDT by jwh_Denver (Make conservatives, mug liberals.)
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