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Posted on 01/22/2009 2:46:59 AM PST by JoeProBono
The Food and Drug Administration continues to caution consumers about a potential connection between dogs becoming ill and the consumption of chicken jerky products (also described as chicken tenders, strips or treats) imported from China. The FDA issued a warning in September 2007 but does not have the authority to demand a recall. At least one firm in Australia has recalled its chicken jerky product, and the recall notification said the chicken jerky product was made in China. Symptoms include decreased activity, vomiting, diarrhea (sometimes with blood) and increased water consumption and urination. Although most dogs seem to recover, some reports indicate that dogs have died from renal failure. The poison has not been identified.
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The water consumption bit is for real. I would give my dog these poison strips and come home and find his water bowl empty. Later he got severe blood in the urine (hematuria). While the latter may have been caused by an infection, he’s a male dog and males tend not to get UTIs. In any case once I stopped giving the poison strips it all got better. The announcement in 2007 could have been way better publicized.
“I guess your idea of justice is scapegoating people...”
What the hell are you talking about??
I doubt if Chinese dogs get to have treats.
We have some Chinese-made chikin strips in the pantry, but there’s only one left in the package, so I assume that batch was okay (since the dog is okay). Won’t get any more, though.
China shoots the weak and scapegoats the plant workers. It’s not justice although it may be swift.
and that's my fault?
Here is the picture in context if you can read Icelandic (can’t find the original ABC news story).
http://svanurg.blog.is/blog/svanurg/entry/577738/
Joe isn’t celebrating China, he is showing the horror.
Sorry. URL ain’t workin’ for me
Hmmm. Well, it’s not in English anyway. I just googled the image name. Where did you originally find it?
“Joe isn’t celebrating China, he is showing the horror.”
Precisely. Thank you kind sir.
"Chicken Jerky Time!"
Try this link. http://www.ar15.com/forums/topic.html?b=1&f=5&t=796200&page=1
The pic is captioned 1948 to 1952 executions. Still goes on, I am sure.
I think the effects are cumulative over time.
China Delivers Harsh Sentences to Tainted Milk Culprits
By Stephanie Ho
Beijing
22 January 2009
A Chinese court has handed down death sentences to two men implicated in a tainted-milk scandal that killed at least six infants and sickened hundreds of thousands of others.
The Intermediate People’s Court in the central Chinese city, Shijiazhuang, issued the first verdicts in a nationwide scandal surrounding milk powder tainted with the industrial chemical melamine.
Geng Jinping, left front, manager of a milk production base and Geng Jinzhu, right front, a driver at the base, stand trial at the Shijiazhuang Intermediate People’s Court in Shijiazhuang (File)
Two men, Zhang Yujun and Geng Jinping, were sentenced to death. Zhang ran a workshop that allegedly was China’s largest source of melamine used in the tainted dairy products. Geng was convicted of producing and selling toxic foodstuffs.
The court sentenced Tian Wenhua, the former head of the dairy company at the center of the scandal, to life in prison and fined her nearly $4 million. She was found guilty of making and selling fake or substandard products.
Her company, the now-bankrupt Sanlu Group, was fined more than $7 million. Six other former Sanlu executives were sentenced to jail, for five to 15 years.
Zhao Lianhai, whose four-year-old son was sickened by tainted milk, expressed satisfaction with the two death sentences.
At the same time, Zhao says he thinks former Sanlu head Tian should also have been charged with selling poisonous or harmful foodstuffs, which would have carried a maximum penalty of death. He says the charge was not fair. He says her life sentence is a mistake.
He says he and other parents also are disappointed that no Chinese officials have had to face formal charges.
Zhao has set up a web site to help organize parents whose children were sickened. He says only about seven parents showed up for the sentencing. Authorities detained at least two sets of parents of melamine victims, as they attempted to travel to the heavily-guarded Shijiazhuang courthouse.
The scandal involving tainted milk broke in September, although Sanlu authorities knew of problems with their company’s products months earlier.
Middlemen who sold milk to dairy companies had watered down the raw milk and then mixed it with melamine, which gives an artificially high reading for protein.
Melamine is normally used to make plastics and fertilizer. If ingested in large amounts, it can cause kidney stones and kidney failure.
The discovery of melamine in Chinese dairy exports also triggered many product recalls overseas.
Chinese Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Jiang Yu says her government has paid “great attention to food safety.”
Jiang says, after the Sanlu case broke, the Chinese government took measures to strengthen food safety rules and regulations. She says China is willing to work with the international community to improve food safety.
Well, now we know, and can watch for symptoms. We got some Oscar Mayer pre-cooked bacon as a substitute dog snack.
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