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05-08-2007, 01:16 PM | #1 |
Loved by Layla Donating Member Join Date: Aug 2006 Location: Canada
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| Now Fish are affected too! Fish Fed Melamine-Tainted Feed, Rice Protein Actually Wheat Flour UPDATE: Here’s a picture of the mis-labeled bag imported through ChemNutra that containted the melamine-tainted wheat flour. (Correction: Wheat flour spiked with melamine was sold as wheat gluten and rice protein concentrate) May 8th FDA press conference on melamine investigation update. We have posted the major points below. Fish feed contaminated: Contaminated feed went into fish feed in Canada, sold to US fish farms. Investigators have only been to one farm and no fish has entered the market yet. Learned in the last week (about 2 months after the first recall) that contaminated fish feed ingredient was brokered through ChemNutra — the same company that supplied Menu Foods. Fish meal constitutes less than 50% of fish food. Pet food quality control failed to detect problems: Wheat flour added instead of rice protein concentrate or wheat gluten. Pet food companies are responsible for testing for correct ingredients. Contaminated shipments actually wheat flour: Not labeled wheat flour. Wheat gluten and wheat flour are related. Pet food with contaminated rice protein concentrate actually contained wheat flour. Affects on farm animals not yet conclusive: Animal exposure risk assessment not yet complete. May take a week. Although the FDA is saying that the exposure to the animals was brief and the concentration is low and even if you take an extreme position of exposure, the risk is 2500 times below any known possible risk. FDA in reactive mode: FDA is currently focused on testing new imports of wheat gluten and rice protein concentrate, not other possible suspects. FDA will look at other ingredients if they start to see unusual spikes of unexplained illnesses. The process of making wheat gluten: FDA comments: Wheat gluten is a component of wheat flour. It uses a process where you wash the starch away and then you’re left with the wheat gluten (the protein). This is when we are speculative — it certainly is a simpler process of a manufacturer where they take wheat flour or whole wheat and grind it up and then it would still have some wheat gluten in it. The total protein content of that is low. If you add melamine, you are adding nitrogen to it and when you do that, the measure of protein is actually measuring nitrogen. You have a wheat based product with high protein and then that creates the appearance of high protein when it actually is high nitrogen. |
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05-08-2007, 02:16 PM | #2 |
Donating Member Join Date: Jul 2006 Location: wiith my furbabys
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| this is getting so ridicules, thanks for sharring the info, my daughter has fish ,going to forward this to her asap.
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05-08-2007, 06:03 PM | #3 |
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| Geez!!!
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05-09-2007, 06:11 AM | #4 |
Senior Yorkie Talker Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: CENTRAL NEW JERSEY
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| Just Say No to Wheat OMG, what a mess! Can't trust any ingredients now. We have been "grain-free" thank goodness. I just can't believe that we pay US farmers not to grow crops and import such crap from China and elsewhere. Makes you wonder how easy it is to kill pets and people on a huge scale if our government doesn't get control of this.
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05-09-2007, 06:17 AM | #5 |
Donating YT 2000 Club Member Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: FL
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| Excellent points! If I was more of a conspiracy buff, I might just think this was some sort of test just to see how easy it would be to contaminate a nation's food supply. FAR TOO EASY I think. Hopefully, this will heighten awareness and prevent further deaths (both pets and humans!).
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05-09-2007, 08:00 AM | #6 |
Love my Boys Donating Member Join Date: Dec 2006 Location: w/ my boys
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| Let's see now....so far it's been the pet food...pork... chickens... fish...I guess we have been eating it ourselves for who knows how long...it's amazing we are not seeing mass numbers of sick people on the news...yet I hear the fish that is farmed is way filthier than the fish caught in the wild, I would never buy farmed fish just for that reason....
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05-09-2007, 08:04 AM | #7 |
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| OMG, now I need to homecook for my fish I am serious! Well, what the heck do I feed them? raw fish.........
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05-09-2007, 08:05 AM | #8 |
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| Seems to me if terrorists wanted a way to get to us all this is it. Our government does not care about anything. It is all about money.
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05-09-2007, 08:06 AM | #9 |
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| This is going way out of control!
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05-10-2007, 12:57 AM | #10 | ||
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05-10-2007, 01:33 AM | #11 |
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| Canidae dog food DOES NOT use any ingredients imported from China. We switched Shylah and Brynna to this dog food about two months ago, and it's a big hit with them. http://www.canidae.com/ ~Marly
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05-10-2007, 04:21 AM | #12 |
YT Addict Join Date: Feb 2007 Location: Houston
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| Yeah I too now feed Canidae AND Merricks. I switched after all this started. I have to order food online though because no stores sell either of these near me. But I found a place that sell canned food for 1.69 per can(I think that was the price). SO I feed Merrick canned as a treat once a week or so but regularly they eat a mixture of Canidae and Merricks dry. So far I have been pleased
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05-10-2007, 06:10 AM | #13 |
Yorkie Yakker Join Date: Oct 2005 Location: Kaufman, Texas
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| Wow! This is so unreal. Thanks for sharing.
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