Posted on 03/30/2007 6:19:26 PM PDT by nuconvert
Recall expanded to some dry cat food
By Andrew Bridges, Associated Press Writer
March 30, 2007
WASHINGTON --Federal testing of recalled pet foods turned up a chemical used to make plastics but failed to confirm the presence of a cancer drug also used as rat poison. The recall expanded Friday to include the first dry pet food.
The Food and Drug Administration said Friday it found melamine in samples of the Menu Foods pet food involved in the original recall and in imported wheat gluten used as an ingredient in the company's wet-style products. Cornell University scientists also found melamine in the urine of sick cats, as well as in the kidney of one cat that died after eating some of the recalled food.
Meanwhile, Hill's Pet Nutrition recalled its Prescription Diet m/d Feline dry cat food. The food included wheat gluten from the same supplier that Menu Foods used. The recall didn't involve any other Prescription Diet or Science Diet products, said the company, a division of Colgate-Palmolive Co.
FDA was working to rule out the possibility that the contaminated wheat gluten could have made it into any human food. However, melamine is toxic only in high doses, experts said, leaving its role in the pet deaths unclear.
Menu Foods recalled 60 million containers of cat and dog food, sold throughout North America under nearly 100 brands, earlier this month after animals died of kidney failure after eating the Canadian company's products. It is not clear how many pets may have been poisoned by the apparently contaminated food, although anecdotal reports suggest hundreds if not thousands have died. The FDA alone has received more than 8,000 complaints; the company, more than 300,000.
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Thanks for that little bit of "dinner table talk". I'll use it when the conversation lags at a friends dinner table plates are suspect....
Ain't plastics-science fun? I actually learned about this in 1957, but I didn't get the whole story until I got into plastics in about 1961.
Next week, we'll learn how to make explosives out of ping-pong balls, and why .............. FRegards
>>>...explosives out of ping-pong balls, and why <<<
I won't miss class that day Professor!!
My Vet prescribed Hills dry and wet food for our cat last week. She has refused to eat it. However, the letters on the bag are k/d instead of m/d? Regardless, she will not be given any more. At almost 18 years of age, doubt she could handle much poison.
After all these years of you saying...
Now I know you meant that As A Good Thing!
I remember dishes made of melamine. sheesh How in the world did it get mixed up with manufactured pet food?
Melamine is a synthetic polymer which is fire resistant and heat tolerant. Melamine is a very versatile material with a highly stable structure. Uses for melamine include whiteboards, floor tiles, kitchenware, fire retardant fabrics, and commercial filters. Melamine can be easily molded while warm, but will set into a fixed form. This property makes it ideally suited to certain industrial applications.Melamine is manufactured by mixing urea with formaldehyde under heat and pressure. The substances begin to polymerize and are forced into a mold which will create the desired shape. Under pressure, melamine releases water, which could make the plastic unstable if it is not removed. The materials finish polymerizing and create a finished product, melamine.
I should've read your post before I typed mine in. You answered my question. (I thought the melamine that was mentioned was the plastic type.) .... anyway .... thanks.
Do you ever notice that at the Vets office are the expensive foods?
I have been feeding my dogs Pedigree.
Check # 35 ................ FRegards
This is just heartbreaking. Might I suggest that everyone check out Wysong pet food products (http://www.wysong.net). As far as I know, they are not part of any recalls, and my cats and dog love their food. You can order online and have everything shipped right to your door.
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