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Topic started on 2-4-2007 @ 12:30 PM by strangefires

Pet Food Recall Expands;Will human food be next?


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As pet owners panic and consider how they should react to a wide and ever changing pet food recall that now includes dog food, cat food and both dog and cat treats some are considering if the recall may move towards human food. In a Washington Post article it is noted that the Food and Drug Administration expanded its investigation this weekend to a dry pet-food maker, and a Hill's recalled one variety of dry cat food, as the mystery of what has sickened and killed an untold number of cats and dogs deepened.

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reply posted on 2-4-2007 @ 02:15 PM by SmallMindsBigIdeas
The FDA, as of yesterday, has released the name of the Chinese supplier of tainted wheat gluten used in these animal food products.

Pittsburgh Live Article


The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has identified the Chinese company that it said supplied the contaminated ingredient used in now-recalled pet foods that has sickened and killed thousands of animals nationwide.
The FDA ordered "detention without examination" of wheat gluten from Xuzhou Anying Biologic Technology Development Co. Ltd., which is based in Jiangsu province. Xuzhou Anying's wheat gluten contains melamine, which is described as a poisonous or injurious substance and an unsafe food additive, according to an import notice issued Friday by the FDA.

Xuzhou Anying officials who speak English could not be reached for comment Sunday evening, and translators were unavailable.

The FDA import notice said all wheat gluten from China and the Netherlands is to be inspected. The Netherlands is included in the order because Chinese wheat gluten is shipped through that country, it said.


I think what is more important than naming the source of contamination is what steps these companies can take to make sure all their ingredients are pure and safe. I have no idea how easy or hard it would be to test the gluten and other ingredients but they're has to be some sort of quality/safety control the company uses to ensure this type of widespread contamination doesn't occur.

If for some reason you want to reach the company here's their website, the English is very limited on it so they might not understand an English email.

Xuzhou Anying Biologic

[edit on 4/2/2007 by SmallMindsBigIdeas]


reply posted on 2-4-2007 @ 02:37 PM by strangefires
Originally posted by DontTreadOnMe
What I want to know is what happened to the rat poison? They had the name of the poison, they said the food was tainted and then all or a sudden it's Melamine?
Are we being deliberately misled? Any one have any info about the change in contaminants?

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New York State is still standing by the rat poison findings. Basically they found rat poison as well as melamine.

[edit on 2-4-2007 by strangefires]

New York officials have detected melamine in the recalled food as well. Yet New York remained confident in its aminopterin finding, said Patrick Hooker, commissioner of the New York state Department of Agriculture and Markets. Hooker added that neither aminopterin nor melamine should be in pet food, but that it was unclear why the latter substance would be poisonous to the cats in which it was found.


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