Posted on 04/26/2007 8:41:37 PM PDT by blam
Hogs that ate tainted pet food to be destroyed
By Mary Ann Fergus
Tribune staff reporter
Published April 26, 2007, 8:38 PM CDT
Federal officials alerted authorities in seven states Thursday that swine fed tainted pet food will not be approved to enter the human food supply.
Officials at the U.S. Department of Agriculture and the Food and Drug Administration expect that approximately 6,000 hogs, now under quarantine, will be euthanized even as they announced that the likelihood of illness after eating pork from the animals is very low. The affected hogs are in California, North Carolina, South Carolina, New York, Kansas, Oklahoma and Utah.
Last weekend, the California Department of Food and Agriculture traced shipments of hogs that may have eaten the feed contaminated with melamine, a chemical found in the tainted pet food and associated with illness in and deaths of cats and dogs, to a farm that in turn sold hogs to a meat vendor.
California officials have contacted the approximately 45 people who purchased hogs from two custom slaughter facilities before the quarantine. Most consumers said they had already eaten the pork, said Steve Lyle, a spokesman for the California Department of Food and Agriculture. Health officials in California have also called the risk to humans "minimal."
The USDA's Food Safety and Inspection Service continues to investigate whether any of up to 300 potentially affected hogs have been slaughtered and turned into pork for sale in grocery stores.
"We're not aware that any products have gone into commerce," said Kenneth Peterson, an assistant administrator with the Food Safety and Inspection Service.
Officials are also investigating whether a poultry farm in Missouri received or used the contaminated feed.
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Were the hogs up in WA state killed after the serial killer fed his victims to them?
Send them all to Iraq to run wild through Anbar...
Well, as predicted by so many, the Chinese poison has entered the human food supply.
Yep, and only Duncan Hunter recognizes the China threat for what it is. All of the other Pubbies got their heads in the sand.
Didn’t we mention this about 4 weeks ago.
Ok, who knew what and when did they know it?
Thanks for the ping.
Send China the bill so these hog farmers can be compensated. No more imports until they pay.
Were the victims TOXIC?
I'm not sure I want to know. I had chicken curry tonight instead of my normal pork curry.
Let’s see, grains nix, pork nix, chicken nix, fresh produce e-coli nix.
What’s left? dairy?
Wasn’t that in British Columbia?
Antibiotics and hormones.
Wasn’t that in British Columbia?
you pinged the wrong person ;)
Alabama has banned contaminated Chinese fish, but the other states are still allowing it to be sold.
Can you tell us more about this?
I guarantee it was not on the dinner table of California Health Officials.
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