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.
(Excerpt) Read more at chicagotribune.com ...
BTW - Can you post a list of cities holding the march?
Going to be nice day tommorrow.
I wish I lived in Vegas.....
Check out this site, for your city. http://www.pnv2.com/ they are having marches on Saturday for pets that have died, sick pets and for awareness of this contaminated human food.
Been in Vegas 23 years and wouldn’t live anywhere else.
Heyyyyy....I was going to say that!
Please say Rosie ate it Please Please Please say she Ate it"
Say, just wondering aloud; what would happen if a bunch of moose-limbs "accidentally" ate pork?
Would they then have to kill themselves?
Not that I'm advocating, you understand, just wondering.
> Yep, and only Duncan Hunter recognizes the China threat for what it is. All of the other Pubbies got their heads in the sand.
All the other pubbies have their head in the money trough.
They’ve poisoned us economically too. The Chicoms hold a huge percentage of our debt. Any time they wanted to cripple our economy, they could do it. Thank the GOP president/congress who for **six years** could have done something about spending (through bills or vetoed bills) and did nothing but make matters worse. Sorry for the threadjack, but I had to get that off my chest.
Ironically, the Dims may actually do some good here (food-wise)... not for the benefit of the American people, mind you, but to embarrass Republicans. But with Hitlery in the back pocket of the Chicoms I wouldn’t hold my breath for that either.
LOL, wondering myself.........
TANKS for the ping...
I thought you might be interested in this latest development.
I know it is a silly question, but I had to ask....
Dog food started with a few has gone over 100 products recalled.
Warning of corn starch and sweet potato products being included came out.
Chicken warning and then silence.
Pets listed as dying are only the TEST ANIMALS. There is no way for Vets to report to any one place...estimates will be in the 1000’s who are at least sickened. Death toll unknown since most are not checked after death due to cost of the tests and no vet care given to animals before death and burial at home.
Hog warning has gone to humans who consumed the meat.
Fish are now suspect in some areas.
Vitamins are a possible problem. Just imagine trying to trace all the “Natural” foods and additives.
This is going to SNOWBALL and become “huge”!
REMEMBER: Many items from China are incorporated into other foods in other countries and sent here with that country listed as the producer! Norway has even repackaged some of the tainted glutens.
I wonder what we can serve safely?
See latest breaking news regarding the melamine scrap tainting of pet foods on purpose in CHINA! (posted just a few minutes ago.) Sorry do not know how to link a web address.
itchmo.com
??
I’ll go looking, thanks for the tip.
Maybe someone else will link. PLEASE!!
Let’s send those contaminated hogs to Iraq, and turn them loose.
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