Posted on 06/05/2007 1:04:08 PM PDT by PghBaldy
Take one beer, add tomato juice or V8 juice, a little salt and Tabasco to taste. Pepper too if you like and I like ice in mine. Yummmmmm!
Oh crap! Not again!
Im familiar with that but it also had a shot of vodka and a raw egg...
I’ve never heard of that. Don’ think I could handle the raw egg. eeeewwwwww
We call ‘em red beers and not tomato beers like I posted earlier.
I’ve also heard ‘em called a Poor man’s bloody Mary.
At any rate they are good especially when ICE COLD.
I believe we called em “red eyes” and used them for hangover breakfasts...um, er, or so Im told...
Ah ha, the truth has slipped out! :)
PING......Another article possibly with more information: http://abclocal.go.com/ktrk/story?section=local&id=5366430
Local Lab Finds Pet Food Contaminated with Painkiller
By Laura Whitley
June 5, 2007
abc13.com KTRK / Deer Park, Texas
You just thought your pet food was safe. Poison has been found in pet food just months after another scare. A Houston doctor says he’s uncovered pet food contaminated with pain medication.
The pet food you are feeding your dog and cat could kill them. Experts are now warning that the contaminated pet food scare could be far worse than first thought. We’ve just learned a local lab has found food contaminated with a common pain medication — acetaminophen. That’s a deadly combination for pets.
The doctor who runs the lab believes the problems with pet food are far from over. His finding has sparked a new federal investigation.
Just one little acetaminophen pill is enough to kill a cat. But according to the lab, this drug was found in at least a half dozen pet food samples.
Technicians at EperTox in Deer Park test all kinds of samples. For the past few months more than a thousand of those samples have been different types of pet food. The results are troubling.
“We don’t really how big and how involved this problem is right now. We are only uncovering the beginning of it,” said Dr. Ernest Lykissa.
What Dr. Lykissa says he uncovered in his lab is more contaminated pet food. In more than two dozen samples Dr. Lykissa says either cyanuric acid or acetaminophen were found.
“Poisonous yes, if we’re testing for it here, it’s potentially poisonous to you,” he said.
The highest level of acetaminophen contamination came from a sample sent in by a manufacturer. It tested at 2 milligrams of the painkiller per gram of dog food.
“So if you put two milligrams of Tylenol in little bit of food, that’s an extremely high concentration,” explained Dr. Michael Huddleston with the Bellaire Animal Clinic. That’s a concentration that could make a dog sick and could even kill a cat.
Dr. Huddleston warned, “Cats are extremely sensitive to this drug.”
ExperTox lab manager Donna Coneley was so troubled by the results that she verified the tests.
“We were questioning that,” she admitted. “We took that same sample and did an extraction.”
Due to a confidentiality agreement, the lab can not reveal which pet food samples tested positive for the drugs. At least one sample was Pet Pride cat food. All test results were reported to the pet food makers, which should have been reported to the FDA.
It may be up to owners to police pet food because, according to the lab manager, no one from the FDA has investigated their positive findings. In fact, to date not a single government inspector has asked to look at one of the tainted pet food samples tested in this laboratory.
Late this afternoon, an FDA spokesperson says the agency is trying to get those samples. For now Dr. Lykissa considers the quality of pet food questionable.
He said, “The FDA has to become a lot more vigilant, because if we’re finding those things who knows what we’re not finding.”
The tests were conducted over the past month. An FDA spokesperson says the agency wants to test the samples independently to determine the levels of contaminants.
The makers of Pet Pride food said court order prevents them from commenting on our story......
Try Vit C and Vit E and pantothentic acid. Glucosamine Chondroitin may also help.
I guess I wasn't paying attention and didn't notice that the article continued below the advertisement.
That is an extremely high level and is definitely a serious problem.
I’m surprised this wasn’t bigger news. I also wonder if the govt realizes WE are those they should be accountable to, not the Red Chinese.
Those supplements are probably manufactured in China, so watch out!!!
That's 8 extra strength Tylenol.
3 every two hours is normal for dental emergencies.
How does how this stuff get in the food for Pets or maybe people?
Gee it should be the food and some preservative and seasonings!
I no longer wonder. Washington is bought and paid for - and not just by China.
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