Melamine tainted chicken enters food supply

forestal

forestal

I'm the Boss of Me
Anyone got kidney failure yet? Anyone want a stronger FDA that actually protects its citizens?

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/18405363/

38 poultry farms in Indiana given tainted feed
Some chickens likely in food supply, but human risk is low, government says
MSNBC News Services
Updated: 9:09 p.m. ET April 30, 2007

WASHINGTON - The U.S. government said on Monday 38 poultry farms in Indiana were given contaminated feed containing melamine in early February, with some of the animals likely to have entered the food supply.

The Agriculture Department and the Food and Drug Administration said in a joint statement that officials learned of the link between the chicken feed and tainted pet food as part of the investigation into imported rice protein concentrate and wheat gluten that have been found to contain the industrial chemical melamine and related compounds.
 
Lenny

Lenny

Lovin' being Texican
aps45819 said:
Notice how this happened right after the Democrats took over congress :ohwell:
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Yes, but only now will you hear that "it takes time" for a new adminstration to have an impact on. . . (Name your agency)"
 
rack'm

rack'm

Jaded
aps45819 said:
Notice how this happened right after the Democrats took over congress :ohwell:
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Coming from China (Slick Willie's favorite place) is what should be taken note of.
 
forestal

forestal

I'm the Boss of Me
Is this how you want to live? Eating food contaminated by the Chinese with an additive made from COAL???

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Melanine, it's what's for Dinner
Filler in Animal Feed Is Open Secret in China
By DAVID BARBOZA and ALEXEI BARRIONUEVO

ZHANGQIU, China, April 28 — As American food safety regulators head to China to investigate how a chemical made from coal found its way into pet food that killed dogs and cats in the United States, workers in this heavily polluted northern city openly admit that the substance is routinely added to animal feed as a fake protein.

For years, producers of animal feed all over China have secretly supplemented their feed with the substance, called melamine, a cheap additive that looks like protein in tests, even though it does not provide any nutritional benefits, according to melamine scrap traders and agricultural workers here.

“Many companies buy melamine scrap to make animal feed, such as fish feed,” said Ji Denghui, general manager of the Fujian Sanming Dinghui Chemical Company, which sells melamine. “I don’t know if there’s a regulation on it. Probably not. No law or regulation says ‘don’t do it,’ so everyone’s doing it. The laws in China are like that, aren’t they? If there’s no accident, there won’t be any regulation.”

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“They have fewer people inspecting product at the ports than ever before,” says Caroline Smith DeWaal, the director of food safety for the Center for Science in the Public Interest in Washington. “Until China gets programs in place to verify the safety of their products, they need to be inspected by U.S. inspectors. This open-door policy on food ingredients is an open invitation for an attack on the food supply, either intentional or unintentional.”
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The Department of Agriculture has also stepped in. On Thursday, the agency ordered more than 6,000 hogs to be quarantined or slaughtered after some of the pet food ingredients laced with melamine were accidentally sent to hog farms in eight states, including California.

Scientists are now trying to determine whether melamine could be harmful to humans.
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In recent years, for instance, China’s food safety scandals have involved everything from fake baby milk formulas and soy sauce made from human hair to instances where cuttlefish were soaked in calligraphy ink to improve their color and eels were fed contraceptive pills to make them grow long and slim
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Here at the Shandong Mingshui Great Chemical Group factory, huge boiler vats are turning coal into melamine, which is then used to create plastics and fertilizer.

But the leftover melamine scrap, golf ball-size chunks of white rock, is sometimes being sold to local agricultural entrepreneurs, who say they mix a powdered form of the scrap into animal feed to deceive those who raise animals into thinking they are buying feed that is high in protein.

“It just saves money if you add melamine scrap,” said the manager of an animal feed factory here.
 
forestal

forestal

I'm the Boss of Me
Hey Guess what? You've probably eaten the same kind of poison your dead cat or dog did.

I want a tougher FDA, and I want to stop importing food food from China..

Feds: Millions have eaten chickens fed tainted pet food

http://www.cnn.com/2007/HEALTH/05/02/pet.food.poultry/index.html
NEW YORK (CNN) -- People have eaten millions of chickens that were given feed tainted with recalled pet food, federal officials said Tuesday, though they said the threat to human health is minimal.

The announcement came after an investigation of chicken farms in Indiana found that 38 of the facilities had given contaminated feed to poultry raised for human consumption, and that 2.5 million to 3 million people ate them.

The officials added that they expect to discover that chickens on possibly hundreds of farms in other states were also given tainted feed.
 
ylexot

ylexot

Super Genius
forestal said:
Hey Guess what? You've probably eaten the same kind of poison your dead cat or dog did.

I want a tougher FDA, and I want to stop importing food food from China..

Feds: Millions have eaten chickens fed tainted pet food

http://www.cnn.com/2007/HEALTH/05/02/pet.food.poultry/index.html
NEW YORK (CNN) -- People have eaten millions of chickens that were given feed tainted with recalled pet food, federal officials said Tuesday, though they said the threat to human health is minimal.

The announcement came after an investigation of chicken farms in Indiana found that 38 of the facilities had given contaminated feed to poultry raised for human consumption, and that 2.5 million to 3 million people ate them.

The officials added that they expect to discover that chickens on possibly hundreds of farms in other states were also given tainted feed.
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...and nobody died! :jameo:
 
Coventry17

Coventry17

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rack'm said:
Coming from China (Slick Willie's favorite place) is what should be taken note of.
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I'd rather my president be tight with China than Saudi Arabia. The Chinese have yet to fly a plane into any of our buildings, they comprised 1/4 of the U.S. Cavalry and they built some awesome railroads.
 
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