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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.
Public statements have indicated that the contaminated gluten was distributed by a single U.S. company, but since the FDA refuses to name the supplier, it is not yet known if this company also supplies human food manufacturers.
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.
However, Ms. Geng said the company based in the eastern province of Jiangsu had not manufactured the gluten but had instead bought it from companies in neighbouring provinces. She said Xuzhou Anying sold it onward to another Jiangsu company, Suzhou Textile Import and Export Co.
There are many other exporters and I don't see why they would just blame us,” Ms. Geng said.
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?
Rat poison discussion
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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.
Originally posted 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.
Originally posted by DJMessiah
I hope this leads the FDA to look more into foods. I recently did a presentation on the Taco Bell brand taco shells that were made with genetically modified corn; the same corn which was only to be used as feed for livestock. Their taco shells spurred many allergic reactions and deaths, because no one looked into their ingredients.
Originally posted by ProfTom
If it isn't fresh, I'm staying away from it.