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- From: LunaTick <chuckadams05@xxxxxxx>
- Date: 30 Apr 2007 13:26:30 -0700
FDA Searches Offices of Pet Food Maker, Supplier
Saturday, April 28, 2007; 12:00 AM
SATURDAY, April 28 (HealthDay News) -- U.S. Food and Drug
Administration
officials on Friday searched the facilities of a pet food
manufacturer
and one of its suppliers in the continuing probe of contaminated dog
and
cat food products, the Associated Press reported.
The officials searched an Emporia, Kan., pet food plant operated by
Menu
Foods and the Las Vegas offices of ChemNutra Inc., the news service
said, citing information supplied by the companies.
Menu Foods made many of the more than 100 brands of pet food recalled
since March 16 because of contamination by the chemical melamine.
ChemNutra supplied Menu Foods with wheat gluten, one of two
ingredients
imported from China and tainted by melamine used in the recalled pet
products. Both companies said they were cooperating with the
investigation, the APsaid.
On Thursday, the FDA said some 6,000 hogs have been quarantined
across
eight U.S. states because they may have eaten contaminated salvage pet
food.
At the same time, U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) officials
said
that meat from 345 hogs that ate tainted feed has already entered the
U.S. food supply, theAPreported.
The quarantined hogs are on farms in California, New York, South
Carolina, North Carolina, Utah, Kansas, Oklahoma and Ohio, theAPsaid.
And the USDA reported that swine from slaughterhouses in Kansas and
Utah
may have entered the food supply. Government officials, however,
consider the threat to human health to be very low.
The swine are thought to have been exposed to food contaminated by
two
chemicals, melamine and cyanuric acid, that was sent as salvage by
companies who have had to recall massive quantities of dog and cat
food
as the pet food recall rolls on.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/04/28/AR200...
The people that own these companies care more about money than the
health of the American people. They knew the food was contaminated
when
they sold it as salvage, for food for hogs and poultry.
They deliberately exposed the population to these poisonous chemicals
out of greed, when they knew the pet food should have been destroyed.
Someone should go to prison, but I doubt it will ever happen. Just
remember the name of the companies, and never buy any of their
.
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