Because much of the inspection budget comes from user fees paid by drug companies, the FDA does far more inspections in countries with well-developed regulatory systems such as Switzerland and Germany than it does in China.”

Within weeks, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention had reports of more than 350 similar cases from 12 states, most of them adults. Four people died. The culprit turned out to be contaminated heparin, a drug used in surgery and dialysis to prevent blood from clotting.

The FDA is so short-staffed and underfunded, the Government Accountability Office reported last month, that it would need 13 years to inspect every foreign drug plant that ships products into this country. Its record in China is even worse.

That country has more than 700 plants approved to ship drugs to the U.S. Between 2002 and 2007, the FDA inspected just 88 of them. At that rate, it would need 40 years to inspect every Chinese plant now shipping drugs into this country.”

MN and IN slaughterhouse workers were infected with what the Center for Disease Control is calling a “progressive inflammatory neuropathy.” These workers are already in varying states of the condition, from tingling limbs to severely disabled. Read more at Wired News.”
[here’s the link for that wired article: http://tinyurl.com/3asypa]

[NOTE: AFTER READING THIS I WONDER IF WE SHOULD BE WATCHING FOR DUMPING OF PORK IN PETFOOD]

“And in CA last week video footage was released from Hallmark Meat Packing slaughterhouse showing the workers abusing already sick animals (downers). The meat from this facility supplies Westland Meat Company. Westland sells their meat to agencies who feed needy families, the elderly and to schools through the National School Lunch Program. Read more about this story in the LA Times.”

Industrial grade melamine on the other hand is typically around 1% cyanuric acid.

So, how do you get a crystal that is 70% cyanuric acid and 30% melamine out of melamine that is 1% (or less) cyanuric acid?

According to information released by the FDA, some pet food samples tested as high as 2500 ppm cyanuric acid. Some melamine positive samples tested as high as 3000 ppm melamine. Under the circumstances, the highest level of cyanuric acid possible as a melamine byproduct would max out at 30 ppm.

Where did all the cyanuric acid come from?

Also, are the Feds etc. going to go back a year or two and get evidence? They should. Purr-Purr became ill in mid 2005 with renal failure, but I didn’t know what was wrong with her. She died in July 2006. Her soft food was TRADER JOE’S — a BIG CUSTOMER OF MENU FOODS. I will not buy any food that is associated in any way with Menu Foods or Diamond. My cats eat Innova Evo and Holistic Select now.

IF CROOKED PEOPLE GOT PAST THE INEPT FDA AND KILLED OUR PETS, THEY CAN DO IT TO US AND OUR CHILDREN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

LETS ALL WRITE THE NEWS AGENCIES AND ASK AND RE-ASK THEM TO DO THEIR OWN INVESTIGATIONS.

Do you think the lawyers for the China company’s and ChemNutra don’t know all this? Think they won’t use it?

The U of G studies leave a lot to be desired. The most glaring flaw is the only animals they studied were those provided by Menu Foods. There is NO chain of custody to estabilish exactly what Menu pumped into those pets in order to kill them.

The one thing the study did show is the crystals were 70% cyanuric acid.

Industrial grade melamine on the other hand is typically around 1% cyanuric acid.

So, how do you get a crystal that is 70% cyanuric acid and 30% melamine out of melamine that is 1% (or less) cyanuric acid?

According to information released by the FDA, some pet food samples tested as high as 2500 ppm cyanuric acid. Some melamine positive samples tested as high as 3000 ppm melamine. Under the circumstances, the highest level of cyanuric acid possible as a melamine byproduct would max out at 30 ppm.

Where did all the cyanuric acid come from?

In the pet food samples I had tested, the cyanuric acid positive sample was manufactured in September 2006 - 2 months before Menu Foods introduced their melamine gravy style pet food.

The acetaminophen positive sample was manufactured in April 2006.

Menu Foods has been producing poisoned pet food for a long time. Long before any China finger pointing started or was possible. The xenophobic China hype disgusts me.

If anyone wants to identify the source of the murderers of a quarter million cats, look no farther than the label on the can.

It says, “PRODUCT OF THE USA”.

(from the article at http://blogs.lasvegasnow.com/s.....6/7833083/)