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Originally Posted by marcerella02  ya i've noticed there has been a bit of a lull in the recalls... nothing new lately... god let's hopet hat is the end of all of this!! |
The news I am reading lately is more about the same melamine entering the human food chain -- pork and chickens were fed feed which had some of the tainted ingredients. What is worse, no one is sure just how long all of this has been going on! I read a CNN report that there were over 4,000 pet deaths attributed to this. But if it was a long term practice, there may be a LOT more than that, just not previously connected to food. It also said prior to using the melamine to purposely elevate the protein count, they were using urea! (Urea is a nitrogen-containing substance normally cleared from the blood by the kidney into the urine. This is what they test when you see BUN listed on lab tests.) I think this current halt to import from China needs to be made more permanent until they allow FDA inspections and clean up their act!