Posted on 04/04/2007 5:42:29 AM PDT by girlangler
ChemNutra Announces Nationwide Wheat Gluten Recall
Contact: Devon Blaine/Lisa Baker 310-360-1499
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE --Las Vegas, NV -- April 3, 2007 -- ChemNutra Inc., of Las Vegas, Nevada, yesterday recalled all wheat gluten it had imported from one of its three Chinese wheat gluten suppliers Xuzhou Anying Biologic Technology Development Co. Ltd.
The wheat gluten ChemNutra recalled was all shipped from China in 25 kg. paper bags, and distributed to customers in the same unopened bags. The bags were all labeled "Wheat Gluten Batch No.: _______ Net Weight: 25 kg Gross Weight: 25.1 kg Made in China". The batch numbers included in the recall are 20061006, 20061027, 20061101, 20061108, 20061122, 20061126, 20061201, 20061202, 20061203, 20061204, 20061205, 20061206, 20061208, 20061221, 20070106, 20070111, 20070116, and 20070126. Each ChemNutra shipment had the certificate of analysis information from the supplier, including batch number and the supplier's content analysis and test results. ChemNutra shipped from its Kansas City warehouse to three pet food manufacturers and one distributor who supplies wheat gluten only to the pet food industry. ChemNutra's shipments commenced November 9, 2006 and ended March 8, 2007. ChemNutra did not ship to facilities that manufacture food for human consumption, and the distributor ChemNutra shipped to supplies wheat gluten only to pet food manufacturers. The total quantity of Xuzhou Anying wheat gluten shipped was 792 metric tons.
ChemNutra learned on March 8 from one pet food manufacturer that the wheat gluten it had sold them all from the Xuzhou Anying - was among ingredients suspected as a potential cause of pet food problems. ChemNutra immediately quarantined its entire wheat gluten inventory and assisted this customer's investigation.
After that manufacturer issued a pet food recall, the FDA immediately commenced a thorough investigation of ChemNutra's wheat gluten, including documentation analysis, inspection, and laboratory testing. ChemNutra cooperated fully with the FDA and immediately notified its other three wheat gluten customers about the FDA's investigation. Those customers had all purchased smaller amounts of the Xuzhou Anying wheat gluten commencing in January, 2007.
On Friday, March 30, the FDA announced they had found melamine in samples of the wheat gluten ChemNutra had imported from Xuzhou Anying. The FDA did not inform ChemNutra of any other impurities in the Xuzhou Anying wheat gluten, nor of any impurities in the wheat gluten from ChemNutra's other two Chinese suppliers.
The toxicity of melamine is not clear. However, since melamine is not approved by the FDA for pet food, it should absolutely not have been in wheat gluten. ChemNutra is extremely concerned about the purity of all of its products. The company is particularly troubled that the certificates of analysis provided by the above-named supplier did not report the presence of melamine.
ChemNutra wants to ensure its products are safe. Consequently, in addition to its ongoing cooperation with the FDA, ChemNutra will be conducting its own independent, analytical tests of wheat gluten from all of its suppliers.
Yesterday ChemNutra sent recall notices to all four of its direct customers. If any other company received bags of recalled wheat gluten from the lot numbers referenced above, please call ChemNutra at 702.818.5019.
Consumers who have questions about the pet food they should go to the FDA's website at www.fda.gov/bbs/topics/NEWS/2007/NEW01590.html. This website lists all brands of petfood involved, with links to the manufacturer who should be contacted with questions.
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I think I am going to write a "101 Things To Do With Chicken" cook book! LOL!
I wonder how long this has really been going on, this wheat gluten coming into the country. I wouldn’t be surprised if it’s been going on for more than just a couple months. We may never get the truth. I guess having most favored nation status gets you a free pass on negligence.
This is one of the rare cases where lawsuits actually do make sense.
CHEMNUTRA has been backpeddling from Day 1 re distribution of tainted product, re earliest date it received said product (initially December, then backpeddled to November) - now DelMonte said the Wheat was marked for HUMAN CONSUMPTION and oh joy, the FDA is investigating the DELIBERATE PLACEMENT of the “taint” otherwise known as rat poison.
For anyone who has forgotten the lessons of Ptech, please note - the “terrorists” whoever they are certainly they are anywhere they *want* to be, including within the Chinese “government”... they also have the entire food distribution blueprint to at least 80 percent of the US including the US military.
Likely this was one of their black flags run up the pole to expose where the holes are.
Why are we importing *any* food from China? Even pet food? This is nuts.
How much are our politicians and businessmen that run this country paid off to import this garbage? Surely we can produce safer and cheaper internally?
Well, I’ll just have to get my cat non-wheat food now, which is EXPENSIVE, but too bad! I’m sick of this China junk poluting everything in this country.
"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus
Funny you should mention that. My brother who is very fit but has Type-2 diabetes told me several weeks before this pet food scare that he had been reading some research articles suggesting that going on a gluten-free diet in some cases that were studied caused some T-2 diabetes patients pancreas' to begin functioning normally again and even eliminated their signs of T-2 diabetes. I haven't studied it out for myself, but it's making me wonder if there is something else in the gluten so prevalent in our modern diet that could be causing so many cases of T-2 diabetes.
You heard right! Look at the small (1/16th" or so), usually purple ink, dot-matrix type printing on the plastic bottle (usually at very bottom or around the pouring area). It will often say "Made from concentrate from China" or "Made from concentrate Argentina or China" or some similar wording. BTW- the "Brand Name" or cost doesn't seem to matter. Speaking of "trusted brands", read the words on the lable about only the finest quality blah, blah blah and get a good laugh. We're talking $$$$$ and competition here folks, forget quality. I wonder what they spray on those apple trees in China? Scary isn't it?
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