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 ...
Sure. That's why they have so many products on the recall list, isn't it. Ask them about their use of rice gluten.
List of recalls for Cat Food from Brand 'Science Diet Feline Cuts Adult' (3 products) http://www.accessdata.fda.gov/scripts/petfoodrecall/brand_list.cfm?brand=Science%20Diet%20Feline%20Cuts%20Adult&pet=Cat
List of recalls for Cat Food from Brand 'Science Diet Feline Cuts Kitten' (2 products) http://www.accessdata.fda.gov/scripts/petfoodrecall/brand_list.cfm?brand=Science%20Diet%20Feline%20Cuts%20Kitten&pet=Cat
List of recalls for Cat Food from Brand 'Science Diet Feline Cuts Mature Adult 7+' (1 product) http://www.accessdata.fda.gov/scripts/petfoodrecall/brand_list.cfm?brand=Science%20Diet%20Feline%20Cuts%20Mature%20Adult%207%2B&pet=Cat
List of recalls for Cat Food from Brand 'Science Diet Feline Savory Cuts Can ' (1 product) http://www.accessdata.fda.gov/scripts/petfoodrecall/brand_list.cfm?brand=Science%20Diet%20Feline%20Cuts%20Mature%20Adult%207%2B&pet=Cat
Note - a product may encompass more than one packaging style.
Their information came from Menu Foods internal pet feeding testing which yielded the dozen or so deaths from only 50 pets in their sample group.
Not good odds. They sat on this information for three weeks and the CFO sold his much of his stock before it was released.
Over a 100 brands of pet food have been recalled over the last six weeks, thousands of pet deaths have been reported by owners and veterinarians and now the contamination has been found in dozens of poultry and hog producers.
I suggest you read up on the topic before dismissing the extent of this ongoing problem,
http://www.petconnection.com/blog/category/2007-food-recall/
I misswrote on the Talapia. It wasn’t a carbon dioxide process but was a CARBON MINOXIDE process.
ON why the Farm Bureau in Michigan, whose responsiblilty it was to prepare and ship the cattle feed, it was originally done-putting PCB’s-fire-retardent into the cattle feed, as a mistake. When all the farmers complained, the Farm Bureau apparently didn’t check or had made so much feed that when it was shipped back, they just covered it in Molasses, shipped it out again-and then the cows loved it. Michigan suffered for years with this episode-with many untowards physical reactions for humans as well as for cattle.
Cordio
Are you serious?
OH. MY. GOD.
“OH. MY. GOD.”
Just a thought.
Supposedly their rice protein has tested free of melamine since they don’t use Chinese suppliers for it, and all the products on the recall list are apparently all part of the “Savory Cuts” line the manufacture of which they outsourced to Menu Foods.
The point is, “Premium” pet food suppliers buy contaminated ingreiends from China and have it made by someone else and they never check the quality.
Science Diet did not find the contamination. Their subcontactor did.
If I get my pet food at Wal-Mart I would expect that, but not from Science Diet.
Do you happen to know when autism suddenly started to rise???
I gotta hit the road BBL...
Sounds like we’ve got the Chinese government’s attention now. And I suspect it won’t be long before we start hearing about human kidney failure cases that were caused by this problem. Unlike pets, humans eat a variety of foods, and are thus unlikely to get the large doses of the contaminant that are required for acute and quickly fatal kidney failure. On top of that, humans with kidney failure are quickly put on dialysis (which is only available for pets at a handful of teaching hospitals, and is generally prohibitively expensive) and so it’s unlikely that any human deaths would have occurred. However, it’s quite likely that a lot of permanent kidney damage could have occurred. Given our nation’s huge and fast-growing rate of human kidney failure (driven by obesity-caused diabetes), a modest increase caused by food contaminants could easily go unnoticed.
I am so mad I can’t see straight - I’m trying to get these products out of my house, specifically store-bought bread and pasta. But my elderly mother is upset with me because I’m “throwing out good food” and “forbidding us to eat any of this good food”.
GOOD FOOD MY ***.
I’m trying to bake bread here, and she’s got my young son all upset thinking home baked bread is second-rate because it’s “not good for slicing for sandwiches” - I guess she forgot that’s all we ate when I was a kid was HER home-baked bread...
ARRGHH!!! Anybody else running into family resistance on this?
This article states the numbers of autism cases have risen 440% in the last 15 years just in California alone.
Coincidence?
It is all very suspect now.
Today’s FDA action is extraordinary, even by their own lax standards.
The flour you use to bake your bread has wheat gluten in it. I have made my own bread my entire life—my family won’t eat anything else. I use a meat slicer to slice it. This is a mess. Where do you get hand ground flour in the US? I am mad as hell and there is nothing we can do about it—we are talking staples not something we can just eliminate.
That’s nice to know. We have a big box of it that we bought at Wal-Mart. I’ll have to check the country of origin.
ApplegateRanch: So because a few Chinese companies are acting criminally, you feel the need to trot out the racial slurs? What’s up with that?
True, but at least it looks like they’re better off than a number of the other producers.
I wonder if anyone has a list of stores, companies, etc., that only uses American sources, products, etc,. in foods...
I am sure it would be widely appreciated if posted!
Interesting thread!
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