Human Food Tainted By Pet Food

[Paul]

   Wilbur-Ellis Co. imported melamine-tainted rice protein from China and sold it to Diamond Pet Foods. Diamond sold pet food to the American Hog Co. Urine samples from the pigs have tested positive for melamine. 100 of the hogs are known to have been slaughtered for meat for human consumption.

State Issues Pork Warning
Pet Toxin Found In Pigs From Stanislaus County Farm
By Linda Goldston, Mercury News

      Paul

[momoffuzzyfaces]

Gosh will this never end?
I had seen where they found the melamine in rice protein too. I wondered then if more pet food companies had used it than originally thought. Lots of them use rice instead of wheat in stuff!

I'm glad I don't eat pork!

[DrKym]

As I said in earlier thread ..........................................

[Cinder & Smoke]

Wilbur-Ellis Co. imported melamine-tainted rice protein from China
and sold it to Diamond Pet Foods.
Diamond sold pet food to the American Hog Co.

From the article:
"The salvage product provided to American Hog Farm in Ceres, Calif.,
by Diamond Pet Foods, was sold prior to Diamond Pet Foods
being notified of the contamination in rice protein concentrate.

It is a common regulated practice for animal food facilities to provide
salvage product to farms with non-ruminant animals."

So, WHY was Diamond selling their stuff as "salvage product" ???

Labeling it as "salvage product" hints that Diamond knew there was "something wrong"
with the stuff - otherwise they wouldn't have downgraded it to "salvage" status
and sold it into a secondary market as opposed to selling it into their primary market
as either dog or cat food.
Something sure smells *Phisshie*!

/s/ Phred

[Roxyluvsme13]

Are you serious? It's in human food now, too? That's just lovely. Vegetarianism here I come.

[cyber-sibes]

Oh great. I wonder how many other places will recall pork? Makes me wonder about chicken, too - do they buy "salvage" feed?

[gini]

And we need these products from CHINA.................WHY?

[Laura's Babies]

Something sure smells *Phisshie*!

Sounds that way don't it..

And RIGHT! WHY are we buying that stuff from other countries when we grow it here? Maybe all this will change that!

I figures it was in the human food chain from the start and have only eaten home cooking since this started. NP processed food... But who would have thought it be in the meat?

[momoffuzzyfaces]

And we need these products from CHINA.................WHY?

Because it's:
cheap cheap cheap cheap cheap cheap!!!!

[lizbud]

The FDA needs to tighten up with restrictions in food product imports.
Who knows anymore, what the heck we are eating everyday.

[Paul]

   I have only watched a few minutes of the congressional testimony, but I did see the CEO of ChemNutra testify that three quarters of the wheat gluten used in the US was imported. I thought we were a major exporter of wheat.

   The New York Times has an article from Zhangqiu, China, Filler in Animal Feed Is Open Secret in China

   Last Friday here in Zhangqiu, a fast-growing industrial city southeast of Beijing, two animal feed producers explained in great detail how they purchase low-grade wheat, corn, soybean or other proteins and then mix in small portions of nitrogen-rich melamine scrap, whose chemical properties help the feed register an inflated protein level.

   The manager, who works at a small animal feed operation here that consists of a handful of storage and mixing areas, said he has mixed melamine scrap into animal feed for years.

   “It’s true you can make a lot more profit by putting melamine in,” said another animal feed seller here in Zhangqiu. “Melamine will cost you about $1.20 for each protein count per ton whereas real protein costs you about $6, so you can see the difference.”

      Paul

[finn's mom]

Thanks for posting the article, Paul. Such compassionless, ignorant people. It's so sad when it is 100% all about making a higher profit.

[gini]

http://news.blogs.nytimes.com/2007/0...seas/#comments

I hope that you will be able to open this link on the New York Times.
It appears this morning - and relates to this thread. What an eye
opener.

The only way the manufactuers are going to get it is if WE, the public,
start complaining.

I was about to buy a frozen food product from Trader Joe's. It is a vegetable mixture. But I stopped to read where it came from - CHINA!

I live in California - yes, the land of fruit, nuts and vegetables. I actually wrote Trader Joe's - something I never normally do. The response is on my other work computer - but I will copy and paste it later today for all of you to read.

[lvpets2002]

Well thats a good point gini.. Well this news is just great & now whats next?!

And we need these products from CHINA.................WHY?

[Vela]

And we need these products from CHINA.................WHY?

Because our government pays farmers not to farm, and those that do the government stockpiles or destroys much of what is produced, at least what isn't exported. It's all about the money and how it changes through all of their hands at the expense of everyone else. Fun isn't it?