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Detention Without Physical Examination of -All- Vegetable Protein Products From China...
US Food and Drug Administration ^ | Tuesday May 1, 2007 | Milwaukee_Guy

Posted on 05/01/2007 9:52:09 AM PDT by Milwaukee_Guy

PROBLEM: Poisonous or Deleterious Substance Unfit For Food Unsafe Food Additive

COUNTRY: China (CN)

REASON FOR ALERT: In recent weeks, there has been an outbreak of cat and dog deaths and illness associated with pet food manufactured with vegetable proteins contaminated with melamine and melamine related compounds. In response to this outbreak, FDA has been conducting an aggressive and intensive investigation. Pet food manufacturers and others have recalled dog and cat food and other suspect products and ingredients. This has been one of the largest pet food recalls in history, a recall that continues to expand.

Thus far, 18 firms have recalled product, 17 Class I and 1 class II, covering over 5,300 product lines. As of April 26, 2007, FDA had received over 17,000 consumer complaints relating to this outbreak, and those complaints included reports of approximately 1950 deaths of cats and 2200 deaths of dogs. The Agency is working with federal, state, and local governments, academia, and industry to assess the extent of the outbreak, better understand how melamine and melamine related compounds contributed to the pet deaths and illnesses, and to determine the underlying cause of the contamination.

(Excerpt) Read more at fda.gov ...


TOPICS: Front Page News; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: adulteration; china; contamination; fdapetfoodrecall; food; foodsafety; melamine
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To: CJ Wolf
Is melamine explosive? I know it’s used in fertilizer.

No; that's why the Chinese government likes it, so I've read.

221 posted on 05/01/2007 8:06:12 PM PDT by ApplegateRanch (Islam: a Satanically Transmitted Disease, spread by unprotected intimate contact with the Koranus.)
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To: Lexington Green

“Eat nothing from China.”

How would one know?


222 posted on 05/01/2007 8:11:03 PM PDT by Faith-Hope
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To: Oorang

They sell teff? It has a wonderful flavor. Doesn’t rise worth a darn, though.


223 posted on 05/01/2007 8:34:32 PM PDT by null and void (The truth. It is a beautiful and terrible thing, and should therefore be treated with great caution.)
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To: CJ Wolf
Is melamine explosive?

Not that I know of.

224 posted on 05/01/2007 8:37:58 PM PDT by null and void (The truth. It is a beautiful and terrible thing, and should therefore be treated with great caution.)
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To: keeper53
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225 posted on 05/01/2007 8:40:09 PM PDT by vox_freedom (John 16:2 yea, the hour come, that whosoever killeth you, will think that he doth a service to God)
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To: ApplegateRanch; CJ Wolf

Right! That was it! Like ammonium nitrate it is a good fertilizer, unlike ammonium nitrate, it can’t be used as an explosive.

Helps keep the munchkins from getting ideas above their station...


226 posted on 05/01/2007 8:46:39 PM PDT by null and void (The truth. It is a beautiful and terrible thing, and should therefore be treated with great caution.)
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To: glorgau
As I've posted here before - eat NOTHING that is a food product from China.

So I guess eating at China 1 this coming week is out of the question?

227 posted on 05/01/2007 8:48:32 PM PDT by madison10
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To: Auntie Mame

End of the month stats most likely.


228 posted on 05/01/2007 9:13:15 PM PDT by madison10
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To: mom4kittys

I haven’t read through this thread yet, but it looks right up your alley.


229 posted on 05/01/2007 9:28:32 PM PDT by Kevmo (Duncan Hunter just needs one Rudy G Campaign Video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RVBtPIrEleM)
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To: ApplegateRanch

It can be “organic” if the right papers are shuffled properly. Actually, every substance on earth is organic anyway.

The fact that the US imports so much food (and I use that term loosley) from China is a sin and a crime.


230 posted on 05/02/2007 9:27:45 AM PDT by little jeremiah (Only those who thirst for truth can know truth.)
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To: Kevmo

yes indeed, Thank you!


231 posted on 05/02/2007 9:51:27 AM PDT by mom4kittys (If velvet could sing, it would sound like Josh Groban)
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To: vox_freedom

LOL!
That’s great.
Don’t mean to panic anyone, but you gotta wonder!

keeper


232 posted on 05/02/2007 9:58:15 AM PDT by keeper53 ((*Fred Thompson in 2008*))
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To: ApplegateRanch; All

On this forum (pretty much dedicated to discussion and news of H5N1 but many related topics) there has been an ongoing discussion about the China/poison/melamine topic for quite some time. Here is a link to the latest page of the thread:

http://www.singtomeohmuse.com/viewtopic.php?t=739&start=300
The Lesson from the Pet Food and Spinach Recalls

There are a lot of knowledgeable people discussing this. You have to tolerate (not on this thread so much) some liberal bias; if you can’t tolerate the occasional leftist opinion don’t go there. There is also a security window thingie that comes up, just click yes and you’re on the site. It’s fine, I’ve been reading the site since its inception.

There is very valuable information about melamine, cyanuric acid (or whatever it is) and so on.


233 posted on 05/02/2007 10:08:37 AM PDT by little jeremiah (Only those who thirst for truth can know truth.)
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To: little jeremiah

Thanks; that looks like a good site.

As to being able to tolerate some liberal bias, well I did go to school & college in the SF-Bay area, in the 60s...and survived.


234 posted on 05/02/2007 11:16:12 AM PDT by ApplegateRanch (Islam: a Satanically Transmitted Disease, spread by unprotected intimate contact with the Koranus.)
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To: ApplegateRanch

After all, no on is born liberal. And they can be cured. I used to be one myself - it was a family tradition. Healing is possible.

;-)


235 posted on 05/02/2007 12:14:16 PM PDT by little jeremiah (Only those who thirst for truth can know truth.)
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To: Oorang

I actually got a phone call from them. The man said they were doing a lot of double checking to confirm where their products came from. He did not have an answer for me and left it at that. Pretty scary.


236 posted on 05/13/2007 7:38:54 PM PDT by US_MilitaryRules (All my bullets are dipped in PIG fat. How about yours?)
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