Exclusive: Lab Finds Toxin In Unopened, Unrecalled Pet Food
The same Texas lab that has reported acetaminophen in pet food, has reported finding cyanuric acid after receiving an unopened container of Hills Science Diet Light Adult canned dog formula. This is the first report we have received that was tested from an unopened container. The picture above shows 2 more cans from the same batch.
Science Diet Light Adult formula has not been recalled by the manufacturer.
The lab report from Expertox obtained by Itchmo states that the tested product had a best before date of 01 2009 and had the lot number T0520917 7048. Cyanuric acid was reportedly found in concentrations of more than 400 ug/g — that’s micrograms/gram.
Hill’s representatives declined to be interviewed over the phone and emailed questions were not returned in time for this deadline.
An Itchmo reader tested the food based on veterinary tests on a dog. The reader’s email is after the jump. It has been edited to remove personal information.
Reader’s email:
I received today the test results on the canned food from the case lot my 4-year old Shih Tzu was eating from when her blood work indicated that she was in kidney failure. We did IV for 4 days, antibiotics for one month, and now fluid therapy once a week. She is still alive, eating home cooked food, has a good appetite, but I don’t know where her kidney levels are at present. Her BUN was 160 before the IV therapy. The BUN came down following 4 days on IV, but was still high when I brought her home.
The reader also said that another dog that did not eat the canned food had normal blood tests.
June 12th, 2007 at 6:26 pm
We are the worlds third largest honey producer. Now cut that in half. You can see the trend. Bye bye honey coated cereal.
June 12th, 2007 at 6:30 pm
And YaYa too.
June 12th, 2007 at 6:32 pm
I’m in apple orchard country. The lilacs have come and gone, the honeysuckle have come and gone, and the wild roses are in bloom. There are hardly any bees. Bye, bye fresh fruit, too.
June 12th, 2007 at 6:44 pm
How about a Pet Food Safety Initiative to reduce pet food-related deaths in the United States. ????
FDA PRESS RELEASE
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
June 12, 2007
P07-102
Media Inquiries: 301-827-6242
Press Officer: Michael Herndon
michael.herndon@fda.hhs.gov
Consumer Inquiries: 888-INFO-FDA
FDA Implementing Initiative to Reduce Tomato-Related Foodborne Illnesses
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) will begin a multi-year Tomato Safety Initiative to reduce the incidence of tomato-related foodborne illness in the United States.
“Produce is an important part of a healthy diet and FDA wants to improve its safety by better understanding the causes of foodborne illness and by promoting more effective methods of safe food production, delivery, and preparation,†said Robert Brackett, Ph.D., director of FDA’s Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition. “This initiative is part of a strategy to reduce foodborne illness by focusing food safety assessments on specific products, practices, and growing areas that have been found to be problematic in the past.â€
The initiative, part of FDA’s Produce Safety Action Plan, is a collaborative effort between FDA and state health and agriculture departments in Florida and Virginia. Several universities and members of the produce industry also are part of the effort. It will begin during this year’s growing season for Virginia in the summer and for Florida in the fall.
During the past decade, the consumption of fresh and fresh-cut tomatoes has been linked to 12 different outbreaks of foodborne illness in the United States. Those outbreaks include 1,840 confirmed cases of illness. The majority of these outbreaks have been traced to products from Florida and the eastern shore of Virginia; however, tomato-associated outbreaks also have been traced to tomatoes from California, Georgia, Ohio, and South Carolina. The effort will include identifying practices or conditions that potentially lead to product contamination, which will allow FDA to continue to improve its guidance and policy on tomato safety. The initiative will evaluate the need for additional produce safety research, education, and outreach.
Other components of the initiative include:
· continuing outreach with the industry at all points in the supply chain,
1 facilitating and promoting research on tomato safety,
2 communicating early and often in the event of an outbreak, and
3 continuing to build and strengthen collaborative relationships with federal, state and local public health officials in disease prevention, detection, and outbreak response.
FDA investigators in coordination with their respective state counterparts will visit tomato farms and packing facilities in Florida and Virginia to assess food safety practices and use of Good Agricultural Practices (GAPs) and Good Manufacturing Practices (GMPs). During their visits, officials will also evaluate a variety of environmental factors including irrigation water, wells, procedures for mixing chemicals, drought and flooding events, and animal proximity to growing fields.
June 12th, 2007 at 6:55 pm
Beware the Stevia replacement that the BIG Corps are pushing into production, just in time to replace all that nasty honey.
http://www.cspinet.org/nah/4_00/stevia.html
It can cause Sterility in males and cancer, etc.
June 12th, 2007 at 6:55 pm
Menusux - I’m not having it tested but if someone else wants to fund it they’re more than welcome to it.
June 12th, 2007 at 6:55 pm
About 150 illnesses to 12 outbreaks of tomato illness—thousands of illness and deaths to 1 outbreak of dishonest pet food manufacturers and suppliers—it just doesn’t add up to me
June 12th, 2007 at 6:59 pm
I need to correct my post—150 illnesses PER 12 outbreaks—-still doesn’t add up
June 12th, 2007 at 6:59 pm
I KNEW IT I have been posting my suspicions on Hills…as well and Wellness (I hope someone has their ANI foods tested soon) and Purina were way too quiet and my cats ate Hills
June 12th, 2007 at 7:06 pm
Right now, I am not interested in scattering my efforts to the big picture of food safety, plenty of folks are fighting that one, the pets have only us.
For damn sure the pet food companies are not doing anything to make this right.
Yes, we all need to eat and I worry about the bees, have been worried for a while but the fight in front of me, the one still going on after 3 FREAKING months-that is the battle I am putting MY energy into.
June 12th, 2007 at 7:14 pm
xyz & Debbiei 474,
I think your on to something there with the water issue too.. We’ve got toxins coming in from so many different sources.. Add up all the various toxins into pet foods and it blows the lid off of “acceptable tolerance” (if FDA ever thought there was one).. which our furbabies are not holding up to AT ALL, but have probably had lower concentrations from the past.. thus the slower death/illness with build up in their systems and no one really noticed, until NOW when the big spiking started happening.. Just a rise in kidney failures, cancers, etc for our pets from the past with all these chemicals, and people are beginning to wonder what really killed and sickend their pets in the past… and it sure looks like the beef industry has been getting their rations of melamine/cynauric acid too.. Our pets eat that and so do we! Now how much of that dilution factor prinicle is FDA going to sell us? If the melachickens, melahogs were sent out as human grade for consumption, imagine what happens when the organ meats gets recycled back to our pets as human grade? - I just don’t buy the it won’t hurt you BS…
June 12th, 2007 at 7:37 pm
Thanks to all of you for your energy to keep up the pressure. I just visited the webside of the Illinois Dept of Agriculture.
http://www.ilga.gov/legislatio.....hapAct=410Â ILCSÂ 620/&ChapterID=35&ChapterName=PUBLIC+HEALTH&ActName=Illinois+Food%2C+Drug+and+Cosmetic+Act%2E
It seems to me that the states all have similar regulations. I found that in Illinois there are regulations that prohibit contaminating food , falsely marketing food’s benefits and other items that apply here.
According to Illinois Law- “Food” means (1) articles used for food or drink for man or other animals, (2) chewing gum, and (3) articles used for components of any such article.
(Source: Laws 1967, p. 959.)
Sounds like the states should be involved.
June 12th, 2007 at 7:39 pm
AMY!!
Please, please call your state agriculture department and ask them to test it.. the probabilities are high, that there isn’t a fee for you in your own state.
June 12th, 2007 at 7:42 pm
Did any of you see that MF has a 13 page code of ethics?
http://www.menufoods.com/ir/ethical_conduct.html
Code of Ethical Conduct
January 4, 2006
http://www.menufoods.com/ir/do.....onduct.pdf
Don’t think it was coincidental that this document disappeared from the MF website when the recalls began. The “code” looks like one of a large pharmaceutical company who’s also earned my eternal contempt. The pharma calls it their Red Book. For both of these companies, these are nice things to show their investors–neither of them conduct their business by them, no matter what they say.
June 12th, 2007 at 7:48 pm
We call it “Science Fiction Diet”…. be afraid, be VERY afraid…..
so sorry for the losses.
Also so sorry that vets keep on recommending this (and other)foods that are potentially harmful. I know vets “think” they are doing well, but they need to wake up and smell the cyanuric acid/melamine/acetaminophen, et al…….
People are quite knowledgeable about home-preparing food for their companion animals.
Just Say No to SD.
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June 12th, 2007 at 7:52 pm
Gosh–can’t get over how thoughtful MF is. In an effort to get people to part with their hard-earned cash in exchange for their shares, they’ve provided this handy little link so you can click it and instantly see how much of your investment they’ve managed to flush along with themselves:
http://tinyurl.com/2fjttk
June 12th, 2007 at 7:53 pm
Ann H Says:
June 12th, 2007 at 7:39 pm
AMY!!
Please, please call your state agriculture department and ask them to test it.. the probabilities are high, that there isn’t a fee for you in your own state.
Ann - no need for shouting; if you would provide me your mailing address I would be more than happy to send you the sample so you can have it tested. I live in a Ag state with a low population no state service is free… believe me… you should see the taxes alone.
June 12th, 2007 at 8:01 pm
HI All
I posted a bit ago. But had to say a bit more about Science Diet and vets.
I am an herbalist, veterinary herbalist and homeopath. I am NOT a vet.
However, in the last 12 years or so, I have spoken to many vets, holistic and not holistic, and been to many seminars/conferences on vet medicine.
In my experience, vets are brainwashed in vet school. The big companies, like SD, come in and give nutrition courses…..well, they say that “independent” nutritionists come in, however, they are most likely previous employees of the big companies.
Vet students are told how wonderful the food is, and are probably given food during their student years.
When the vet graduates, they BELIEVE that the company that came to their particular school is THE best in the world.
Then they carry it in their clinics. THEN, they make a certain percentage from the sales of those products…..it goes on and on.
ANd yes, as someone mentioned, SD is Colgate-Palmolive Inc.
The also EXPERIMENT on animals.
The whole time my dog was/is in renal failure (NOT from food, but elder age), I was going to the vets office for IV fluids for him and at least 2x a week, saw the Hills’ truck making a delivery…….
Get the word out, as one comment said, one vet at a time, but the more and the sooner, the more animals can be saved!
Hugs to all
Mary
June 12th, 2007 at 8:24 pm
TORONTO (CP) - Units in Menu Foods Income Fund (TSX:MEW.UN) shed more than one quarter of their value Tuesday as investors and customers continued to desert a beleaguered pet-food giant still struggling to put a months-old poisoning scandal behind it.
Excellent. I hope their stock collapses and they go out of business. They can take the whole PFI with em too.
http://tinyurl.com/3aourk
June 12th, 2007 at 8:33 pm
Well, golly gee, a pet food company that produces a poison by the ton, harasses the people whose pets they KILLED, lies and waits almost a month to recall a product that killed their own test animals, so the CFO can sell HIS stock at a profit and no one wants to snap up this goldmine?
(yes, sarcasm fully intended)
They are just the FIRST, got plenty of steam left in me to use for the taking down of the other offenders.
And Duane? We have NOT forgotten about you.
June 12th, 2007 at 8:38 pm
Amy - sorry was just trying to get your attention.
If you’ve already called them then I guess that’s that for that thought.
I had emailed mine and they contacted me. I called them back & my state inspector is going to try to get my stuff up tomorrow for testing.
June 12th, 2007 at 8:42 pm
Steve Says:
June 12th, 2007 at 8:24 pm
TORONTO (CP) - Units in Menu Foods Income Fund (TSX:MEW.UN) shed more than one quarter of their value Tuesday as investors and customers continued to desert a beleaguered pet-food giant still struggling to put a months-old poisoning scandal behind it.
Excellent. I hope their stock collapses and they go out of business. They can take the whole PFI with em too.
There’s another gem to be found here:
http://tinyurl.com/3aourk
“The company had said after markets closed Monday that a “significant customer” - reported to be Procter and Gamble - had dropped a contract worth 11 per cent of sales last year.
“With revenues of about $356 million last year, the loss represents a hit worth close to $40 million.
“The customer, which had previously put its order on hold, would continue to purchase “loaf” products or solid canned food, Menu said in brief statement.”
So this may mean that P & G’s canned products will still be made by them, but not the pouched foods. And that falls in line with this UDA Today statement re: P & G’s total MF business:
http://www.usatoday.com/money/.....usat_N.htm
“P&G is Menu’s biggest customer, accounting for 21% of Menu’s 2006 revenue.”
June 12th, 2007 at 8:51 pm
Steve Says:
June 12th, 2007 at 8:24 pm
Article also says it has been found Menu Foods is not at fault—who the heck thinks that??? IF they had tested their ingredients (from a new supplier) I think they may have found a problem
June 12th, 2007 at 8:56 pm
“Not at fault”. . . . Hilarious.
Silgardo have a stake?
June 12th, 2007 at 9:02 pm
Ann - the point I was trying to make is that even if they did yank all the food off the shelves there are still samples out there floating in the market, stuck in litter bags, etc. There might be people who haven’t followed the recall and have dodged the poison bullet so far who will figure they can give the sample to their pet and think nothing of it and possibly wind up with a very ill pet. Luckily, it’s a single serving sample, however, it didn’t take much Natural Balance to get my girl sick, so, who knows?
June 12th, 2007 at 9:07 pm
Everyone who bought and didn’t test is at fault-from the importers on down.
Before he opened his mouth and let the stupid fly out, he made sense:
“Robert Silgardo, an analyst at Dundee Securities Corp. in Toronto, said it’s not surprising customers are fleeing Menu in response to their customers, who are demanding changes to where their pet food comes from.”
CYA as best they can from the PF companies’ standpoint, but they are equally to blame.
Maybe if everyone sent the respective PF company a label or front of bag from their new, non-Menu-made food, with a note re: which Menu produced food this replaces, it would be even more incentive for those who stayed to let the Menu door hit them on the butt on their way out.
June 12th, 2007 at 9:07 pm
TC Says:
June 12th, 2007 at 6:02 pm
I am having a bad day contemplating how depressing I find human kind right now.
Ah but TC, all you have to do is look around you on Itchmo’s blog and Pet Connection and see the number of people that can restore your faith in human kind. And there are many more that read but dont post (Im not talking trolls) that are also concerned. Chin up OK?
June 12th, 2007 at 9:16 pm
Even funnier is that if you look at the bottom of the first page of that article there are Google Ads:
Tainted Pet Food
TheDogFoodConspiracy.com
How Not To Kill Your Pet
www.askthepetfoodexperts.com
June 12th, 2007 at 9:25 pm
Well cripes! I can’t believe the Drop in Bees already shwing like that. I think it’s worse than the reports let on {why am I not suprised?}
I still have some fresh honey left from last year in jars from friends. {thank goodness}
And as far as the FDA Tomato Initative! Damn!
I can dip my store bought tomatoes in alcohol then rinse real well, {they Do have a Skin!} BEFORE I cut them up. Can’t others ‘WASH’ their Tomatoes too, so we don’t have to have a Whole Dang Initiative for them????? What a waste!
How bout they spend that money and effort on PET Food ingredients?
My head just exploded for the second time today :-(
June 12th, 2007 at 9:31 pm
From all the reports, it looks like the boycott on P&G and Wal-Mart, as well as the PFI is really working. YEAH!
June 12th, 2007 at 10:00 pm
TC, please hang in there Ok.
You are, We are, doing all we can and I think we are difintely having an effect!
Go out and hug yer horse. That Always makes me feel better, I just sort of wrap my arms around her and hang there. She’s pretty peppy usually, but just stands there and lets me :-)
Generations of Pets will be Safer because of what *we* Do/are doing, now.
Believe it!
June 12th, 2007 at 10:20 pm
TC,
this mess would kill the compassion of Mother Theresa.
And I sure know about the down days.
I had to go bury my dead and cry my eyes out and lick my wounds and then find a way to get up off my whining knees and DO something and it was the folks here that are DOING WHAT HAS TO BE DONE that helped.
And we ARE doing it.
Menu is hurting from our refusal to lay down and die.
All the pet food companies are in trouble.
We have Hills by the balls and the PFI is going down and they KNOW it!
We can’t trust the FDA? Fine, we don’t NEED them.
The media abandons us, cool, we have BECOME the media we need.
This, right here, this site, these people, is a story of heroes!
This is a magnificent epic historic thing happening and don’t you forget it!
And you are part of it.
TC, everyone here, except the paid spies and flunkies for the bad guys , should be proud.
P.S. to the paid spies and flunkies,
I lay it on you that you and your descendants, unto a thousand generations , develop boils on your reproductive organs. Incurable, festering boils.
June 12th, 2007 at 11:03 pm
Bravo E!
Ditto on the festering boils too! :-þ
June 12th, 2007 at 11:27 pm
I owna apet shop and have been telling all of our customers what Hills is not saying. I’m having a hard time convincing them to switch foods. But I am not purchasing Hills any more EVER.
June 13th, 2007 at 1:36 am
Trudy did not hear til you stated boycott of wally world. P&G already doing that but will include wally world too.
E. Hamilton bravo to you. Yes we are all making a huge difference. My local Pet Supplies Plus is putting in another aisle just for the premium food that is not on the recall list. They see the writing on the wall and are doing something about it too.
June 13th, 2007 at 1:37 am
Here is a story that you can comment on. These people have some facts on just how AWARE of all the recalls people really are and some good quotes about it really should have been done.
http://tinyurl.com/2qj8rw
Here is a little thing the entire pet food industry missed.
quote
When a response is called for, the old PR adage goes, ‘tell the truth, tell it all, tell it fast’ is sound advice for shoring up an organization’s reputation. Unquote
Gee, NONE of the pet food companies have told the truth YET!
And another,
quote
A week or even a day wasted trying to figure
out what to do can exact a huge price in terms of loss of trust and reputation. unquote
I don’t think they recommend blowing off your customers for 3 months.
And the worst public relations firm in the world probably would not say that killing your customers pets and THEN harassing them is a smart move.
So comment on just how badly this has been handled.
Oh crap, I forgot to say anything about that lying PFI and Duane!
Well, I am sure someone will.
June 13th, 2007 at 1:45 am
Here is the study about how concerned and AWARE people are of the recalls, pretty much shows you that Duane and the PFI lied through their teeth, as we suspected.
People are far more aware of the pet food problem than the esteemed weasel, Duane, wants to admit.
http://tinyurl.com/2nqd99
Higher numbers of people being aware of the pet food recalls than the spinach, peanut butter or other recalls!
June 13th, 2007 at 4:10 am
[…] Lab says toxin found in sealed, unrecalled Science Diet Adult Light canned dog food. […]
June 13th, 2007 at 10:14 am
I posted this over on Pet Connection, what do you think?
Hey I was thinking of another idea to get Congress or the press to do something about this and I was thinking probably 80% of them dont realize these individual stories that come up such as the new finding of toxins in Hill’s Science Diet or the rest of the newd findings as they arise. Maybe we should get a group of people together that would be willing to either e:mail or write the press person for each Congressperson each time a story like this hits. Eventually you would think, with all the new stories weekly that are still happening, they would get tired of us and start looking into it further. We could even add news media and newspapers to the story along with our old buddy, Duane Eckedahl. It could either be an indivual post of the story or an accumulated list as they occur. I dont know how to organize something like this but if anyone is interested, Im sure Itchmo would let us create a section in his forums and we could brainstorm this if anyone is interested?
June 13th, 2007 at 12:43 pm
E. Hamilton - thanks for the reminder, esp. from you. Your story made my heart hurt when I read it. And had that happened to me, I too would have come up swinging, but fear it would have taken months to get over my bitterness. My story ended differently due to a random act of stupid blind luck by the universe, ie no reason my dogs are not dead too but for luck (I won’t even allow my mind to think about the bad time for now). I think I am just temporarily overcome by the sheer evil inherent in some of human nature (I still see that little dog in his plastic collar that the vet beat to blindness, every time I have some downtime on the computer, and even the death cans of vet recommended S. Diet that are being fed to unsuspecting owners). Thanks for the encouragement, I will be past this in a few days.
SandiK and YaYa - I have my chin up this a.m., and not only have hugged the horses, I plan to go for a ride later. There definitely has been good coming out of this. Been local stories too lately of animal cruelty that I can’t even speak about, it is so bad. I only read headlines and avoid the story itself, but sometimes the headlines just drive me mad seeing what some are capable of doing. That’s all. I am glad to be around people online who feel the bond I do with animals.
June 13th, 2007 at 1:24 pm
Does anyone have or can you get a bag of Evangers dry dog pheasant & rice formula 4.4lb bag ?I need the date Oct 19th 2009 with the code 001. 1 of my dogs was sick & another of mine & a neighbors had some of the same symptoms. I have 2 opened bags but not a sealed 1 for testing. I will buy it from you if you can find 1.
June 13th, 2007 at 1:44 pm
Trudy - not ignoring the request for my dogs story, but it was traumatic enough that I am just blocking those thoughts for the moment. To concentrate on the fact that I am lucky enough to still be taking long walks with my best friends each day that we have left, when it so easily could have gone the other way. So if ever I can look back at that without being upset, I will.
June 13th, 2007 at 2:14 pm
Carol, June 12th, 2007 at 1:54 pm Says: “I wonder why the toothpaste “Urgent Recall†is dated June 8…”
In case you hadn’t noticed, the FDA makes public press releases, as in this case, on June 67/8th announcing the recall. Public press releases will reach many, many more people than a web site posting. Maybe you should be monitoring: http://www.accessdata.fda.gov/news/
June 13th, 2007 at 2:29 pm
TC Says:
June 13th, 2007 at 1:44 pm
TC, I am not over the bitterness and you may not have noticed but I am just not the “turn the other cheek” kind of gal, learned some of my tough in Texas so you may be familiar with that. If not, go to the nearest farm, find an old woman who wears her wrinkles and gray hair like she is proud of them and can STILL outwork , outride and outcuss the hands-ask her what happens to those that harm what belongs to her- my answer is the same.
I WISH I could curl up on the couch in a fetal position and whimper, sounds mighty nice some days.
Not happening anytime soon.
I aint letting the folks here down, or the pets, because I am just not that kind of gal either.
Yes, there is plenty of evil to go around, maybe it helps us love the good all the more. I know what side I want to be on, that is all I need to know.
June 13th, 2007 at 3:24 pm
Krista & xyz, June 12th, 2007 at 6:05 pm, Says: “Debbie4747: …I want to know what’s in the water. Three of the chemicals listed appear to be used in water treatment.”
“Are they common in our water supply? Do food manufacturer’s use filtered water for processing?”
There are Federal EPA drinking water contaminant limits. Periodic testing of every municipal and community well is required. Since I am on a privately owned community well, every consumer and I gets the test results several times a year. For municipal systems, the municipality gets the reports. Today very low limits are placed on all contaminants. My/our well is slightly over the limit for radon and will be remediated by hooking up to another water system. A near by municipality has had to close a number of wells with industrial solvents in them.
“…beef industry has been getting their rations of melamine/cynauric acid too.. ”
Ruminants can digest these via bacteria in one of their stomachs. Melamine has been tested on ruminants for cost effectiveness and found to not be as cost effective as other cattle feeds. Since then the use of melamine has been discontinued. I think that the FDA as prohibited melamine as a ruminant food, but couldn’t find it in writing on their web site.
June 13th, 2007 at 3:47 pm
TO menusux, June 12th, 2007 at 9:07 pm.
If it makes you feel better, Menu Foods Income Fund, the major owner of Menu Foods Cos., has had their stock price drop 25% yesterday and today, for a total of 69% since last Feb & March.
June 13th, 2007 at 3:52 pm
check out the latest letter to pet owners
http://www.hillspet.com/media/.....lease.html
June 13th, 2007 at 9:29 pm
By the way, the world’s largest producer of honey is China
June 14th, 2007 at 12:36 pm
Hi Rockman -
Thank you for addressing the USA patent that allowed melamine to be used in the process of developing Biuret for livestock feed.. Perhaps this is an old patent and it was allowed years ago, but not anymore. hmmm.
I do have a few more questions, hope you can weigh in on this or someone can give an opinion..
It was stopped because of cost effectiness? Too expensive, therefore it was banned because of this? I would think that conclusion (cost) would be a corporate thing, rather than a ban formality by FDA.. Why would FDA go to the trouble, or better yet.. get involved to ban a chemical substance from feed simply because of cost?
I thought they (FDA) were all about health and would leave “cost measures” to the companies that make Biuret. Unless later studies done on Ruminants posed some problems to health safety.. there is where I could see FDA getting involved - and their decision to ban melamine in this process, for health reasons rather than cost reasons.. That would be their appropiate roll… health/safety.. not cost effectivness.. Wonder when that ban date was? Last year, 5 years ago? FDA Dr. A, said it was not allowed in any animal feed… banned, prohibited…
Still we find 2 USA livestock feed manufacturers testing positive for melamine (yet cyanuric acid is already okayed, which that alone makes me sick to think of, I’m damn sick of chemicals in feed, period…) Aren’t we all?
Did the price of melamine go down and they cheated? Something manufacturers have been doing all along anway? You know, self regulation… Or.. is it a play on words? Like scrape melamine vs melamine? What is the real excuse for these feed suppliers using a banned substance even thou a cow can digest it, but was banned by FDA? (per DR. A’s press conference a few weeks ago - his words, not allowed)
Wonder What the FDA health studies showed and why they prohibited it? Did it accumulate in their meat/organs (even thou they can digest it) and consumpuion over time didn’t dilute for us? Just a question
I just don’t understand why melamine was found in livestock feed and the reasons stated above for FDA involment - it was obviously okay years ago, but not anymore.. what’s it doing in there now? and why did the 2 companies get called down for it? If there is no saftey issue, FDA could care less what the cost is.. Then they said it was for export only, and FDA says.. oh, then that is okay?
Something just isn’t right here…
I know, I’m skeptical, but something other than “cost” made FDA ban it, IMO.. Kinda goes along with China stating, “hey, you’ve been using it for a long time”.. And I see kidney dialysis centers all around town, so much more kidney problems and kidney cancer in humans. Not to mention our little poundage furbabies…
I’m thinking of the accumlated chemicals over time for human/pet consumption.. Even if this was supposedly stopped years ago.. (wink, wink)Perhaps FDA should check other livestock feeds to see if they comply with their ban.. cause these 2 suppliers surly didn’t …they scrammbled for answers and explanations.. That quite frankly concerned Americans didn’t accept and should question.. At this point everything is suspect and relevant… Just my questioning mind… hmmm..
June 14th, 2007 at 2:08 pm
I have in my possession 5 packages of food on the recall list from February. I would like to get them all tested in order to have a comparison, with also food purchased in June. I live in Canada and it costs $400 per pouch. If anyone knows of a reasonable lab please let me know as I think it would be a great comparison.