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Second chemical eyed in Chinese pet food scandal
International Herald Tribune ^ | 5/8/07 | By David Barboza

Posted on 05/08/2007 10:08:30 AM PDT by mom4kittys

SHANGHAI: A second industrial chemical that regulators have found in contaminated pet food in the United States may also have been intentionally added to animal feed by producers seeking larger profits, according to interviews with chemical industry officials here. Three Chinese chemical makers said that animal feed producers often purchase, or seek to purchase, the chemical, cyanuric acid, from their factories to blend into animal feed. The chemical producers said it was common knowledge that for years cyanuric acid had been used in animal and fish feed. In the United States, cyanuric acid is often used as a disinfectant for swimming pools. Two of the chemical makers said feed producers used it because it was high in nitrogen, enabling feed producers to lift the protein reading of the feed artificially. "Cyanuric acid scrap can be added to animal feed," says Yu Luwei, general manager of Juancheng Ouya Chemical Company in Shandong Province. "I sell it to fish meal manufacturers and fish farmers. It can also be added to feed for other animals." The disclosure is noteworthy not just because it is another indication that Chinese animal feed producers were intentionally doctoring the ingredients they sold, but because the practice of using cyanuric acid may provide clues as to why the pet food in the United States became so poisonous.

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TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: china; cyanuricacid; melamine; petfoodrecall
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1 posted on 05/08/2007 10:08:31 AM PDT by mom4kittys
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To: Arizona Carolyn; mom4kittys; blam; Salamander; Red Badger; upchuck; WakeUpAndVote; dirtboy; ...

2 posted on 05/08/2007 10:09:29 AM PDT by mom4kittys (If velvet could sing, it would sound like Josh Groban)
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To: mom4kittys

If I were Purina, I’d stop all importing of Chinese pet food products/ingredietns and start an ad campaign touting that.
Their profits would soar.


3 posted on 05/08/2007 10:11:32 AM PDT by nuconvert ([there are bad people in the pistachio business] (...but his head is so tiny...))
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To: mom4kittys; Rightfootforward

Thanks for your ongoing vigilance, mom4kittys. Makes me afraid to eat anything or feed my pets. Maybe they’d be better off living in the barn and chasing mice. ....if I only had a barn.


4 posted on 05/08/2007 10:12:25 AM PDT by Veto! (Opinions freely dispensed as advice)
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To: mom4kittys

Thanks for the post.


5 posted on 05/08/2007 10:14:40 AM PDT by Snoopers-868th
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6 posted on 05/08/2007 10:16:06 AM PDT by theFIRMbss
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To: Veto!

Don’t forget human food. I think it’s only a matter of time before someone lets it slip that this stuff is finding it’s way into human food products. I can’t believe that what they’re putting into animal feed is kept so isolated that mix ups, or deliberate tainting, can’t, and don’t, occur.


7 posted on 05/08/2007 10:16:52 AM PDT by metmom (Welfare was never meant to be a career choice.)
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To: Veto!

You are welcome. It is staggering to think of the percentage of population that knows nothing about all this. I am telling everyone I can about it.


8 posted on 05/08/2007 10:17:20 AM PDT by mom4kittys (If velvet could sing, it would sound like Josh Groban)
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To: mom4kittys

It really makes you wonder about any food product - pet or human - produced in China, including vitamins. Who knows what they’re using??


9 posted on 05/08/2007 10:17:31 AM PDT by nuconvert ([there are bad people in the pistachio business] (...but his head is so tiny...))
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To: theFIRMbss

Go away


10 posted on 05/08/2007 10:18:19 AM PDT by mom4kittys (If velvet could sing, it would sound like Josh Groban)
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To: mom4kittys
"Often, the animal feed producers say, they do not buy pure melamine, which is used to make plastics and fertilizer, but purchase impure melamine scrap from chemical factories. It is much cheaper than pure melamine."

"The buyers say they believe it to be legal and non-toxic, though they admit they are cheating buyers."

Someone should be punished.

11 posted on 05/08/2007 10:19:28 AM PDT by blam
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producers seeking larger profits

Bet they're watching their bottom line now. Hopefully it will cost them dearly.

12 posted on 05/08/2007 10:20:52 AM PDT by Realism (Some believe that the facts-of-life are open to debate.....)
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To: mom4kittys

Thanks for the post mom4kittys.


13 posted on 05/08/2007 10:21:28 AM PDT by fanfan ("We don't start fights my friends, but we finish them, and never leave until our work is done."PMSH)
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To: Realism

Isn’t this called being a penny wise and a pound foolish? In the end this is going to cost them a lot more than they saved.


14 posted on 05/08/2007 10:23:17 AM 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: mom4kittys

we bombarded Iraq for less they never atacked us with WMD

here the most favorite nation gets to cash their great imperial checks


15 posted on 05/08/2007 10:42:05 AM PDT by Flavius ("Qui desiderat pacem, praeparet bellum")
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To: Flavius

Incredible isn’t it?


16 posted on 05/08/2007 10:46:45 AM PDT by mom4kittys (If velvet could sing, it would sound like Josh Groban)
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To: mom4kittys

I think a better graphic on that one would be an ostrich, with its head in the sand. Anyone laughing at this situation has no idea what it IS.


17 posted on 05/08/2007 10:49:02 AM PDT by MizSterious (Anonymous sources often means "the voices in my head told me.")
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To: MizSterious

Exactly what I thought too!


18 posted on 05/08/2007 10:53:26 AM PDT by mom4kittys (If velvet could sing, it would sound like Josh Groban)
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To: mom4kittys
...cyanuric acid is often used as a disinfectant for swimming pools.

No, it's used as a "binding agent" for chlorine. Most pool store people (who are out to rip you off BTW) call it "conditioner."

19 posted on 05/08/2007 10:57:50 AM PDT by MarineBrat (My wife and I took an AIDS vaccination that the Church offers.)
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To: nuconvert

This is exactly what’s going to happen. The Chinese are going to get their first lesson in free market economics, which is, customers might be fooled by lower prices once, but once the quality issues are known, they won’t be fooled twice. Just ask the makers of the Yugo.


20 posted on 05/08/2007 10:57:56 AM PDT by LS (CNN is the Amtrak of News)
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