[Arizona Carolyn]

I don't know if you saw the story last night on CNN that they figured out why the cats are being affected more than anyone else.... Scientists took melamine, the acid they figured out was also being added to the food and added it to cat urine..... grew crystals like crazy... those crystals match what vets were/are reporting in their surgical cases.

They showed some video of cats urinary tract during surgery and the crystals -- they literally grow wild.

[null and void]

AH! Excellent! Thanks for watching CNN so I didn’t have to...

[browardchad]

Scientists took melamine, the acid they figured out was also being added to the food and added it to cat urine..... grew crystals like crazy... those crystals match what vets were/are reporting in their surgical cases.

They added melamine and cyanuric acid to the urine. The theory that both compounds were added to the contaminated pet food (rather than the cyanuric acid being a metabolic by-product produced by the melamine in the cats' systems) seems to be gaining ground, as per CNN's story up now:

Mix of chemicals may be key to pet-food deaths

The FDA is also admitting they don't know how long Chinese imports containing melamine have been in the US system, since adding it is apparently such a widespread practice in China. If the Menu Foods batches contained both cyanuric acid and melamine, it might explain why that particular wheat gluten was so toxic.

 

[khnyny]

Thanks for the info, I didn’t see CNN.