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 ...
No; that's why the Chinese government likes it, so I've read.
“Eat nothing from China.”
How would one know?
They sell teff? It has a wonderful flavor. Doesn’t rise worth a darn, though.
Not that I know of.
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...
So I guess eating at China 1 this coming week is out of the question?
End of the month stats most likely.
I haven’t read through this thread yet, but it looks right up your alley.
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.
yes indeed, Thank you!
LOL!
That’s great.
Don’t mean to panic anyone, but you gotta wonder!
keeper
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.
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.
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.
;-)
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.
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