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Pet Food Recall

By Judi McLeod

Thursday, May 10, 2007

Scam artists in the thriving food additive export industry are quickly giving the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) the reputation of Keystone Cops.

FDA officials made much of heading off to the Orient to get down to the roots of the melamine sickening and killing off thousands of cats and dogs in the ongoing contaminated pet food scandal. But even as they were telling us "Bon Voyage", melamine bossman Mao Lijun, who exported tainted wheat products to Las Vegas-based ChemNutra, was razing his own building.

By Judi McLeod

Wednesday, May 9, 2007

ChemNutra, the Las Vegas-based company at the heart of the ongoing contaminated pet food scandal, exported from China tainted wheat gluten that was used to make fish meal in Canada.

During a Tuesday FDA/USDA media conference, live blogged by www.ptconnection.com, David Acheson, the FDA's assistant commissioner for food protection, confirmed ChemNutra as the export source of the tainted fish meal.

AP's Andrew Bridges asked Acheson: "Who exported the wheat gluten or purported wheat gluten to the Canadians, and why are you learning this only now?

By Judi McLeod

Friday, May 4, 2007

When the latest contaminated pet food scare is over, thousands of hearts will have been broken. Pet people love their pets. What could possibly be worse than knowing a pet died from the very food you have fed it?

Shame on the FDA for consistently claiming the number 16 for dead pets in the latest wave of dead pets from poison masquerading as commercial pet food; the latest because the massive Menu Food recall is only the deadliest recall to date. Some of the same pet food manufacturers whose products are on current recall have made recalls for other contaminanted products as recently as 2006.

By Judi McLeod

Thursday, May 3, 2007

The robber barons of the $15-billion-a-year pet food industry are not nice guys.

They're not the guy next door who happened to go into the right business; not like Joe the Barber where you can go get your money back for a bumbled buzz cut or Uncle Charlie in the chocolate factory.

It's thanks to the allusive robber barons of the multi-billion dollar pet industry and their unbridled greed that melamine-tainted pet food has now made its way into poultry at 38 Indiana farms.

By Judi McLeod

Monday, April 30, 2007

"Tainted-gluten-fed-pork has hit the dinner plates of humans, according to www.denverpost.com.

"California officials have revealed that the contamination got into the food chain. About 45 residents ate pork from hogs that consumed animal feed laced with melamine from China. Melamine is used to make plastics, but it also artificially boosts the protein level—and thus the price—of the glutens that go into food." (denverpost.com, April 29, 2007).

Even after Captain David Elder of the FDA said, "The combination of melamine and cyanuric acid is of concern to human and animal health," the FDA is saying that the recall of thousands of hogs was not warranted. (Italics, canadafreepress.com).

By Judi McLeod

Friday, April 27, 2007

The Pet Food Institute (PFI), which represents U.S. pet food manufacturers, could be the only entity in existence claiming faith in swift action to answer questions about how melamine--a substance foreign to pet food--ended up in specific ingredients from China.

China banned melamine yesterday and said it would cooperate with U.S. Federal Drug Administration (FDA) agents expected in their country to investigate the melamine mystery.

ChemNutra was one step ahead of the FDA in announcing today that FDA has searched its offices.

By Judi McLeod

Wednesday, April 25, 2007

Stephen S. Miller Wanted by thousands of angry pet owners.

How to recoup lost revenues on pet food contaminated with an industrial chemical killing off an unknown number of pets? Brand it as "salvaged" and feed it to thousands of farm animals.

Within hours of yesterday's congressional hearing into food safety came the alarming news that tainted pet food on recall was fed to hogs in as many as six states.

"Food safety officials have quarantined hogs at farms in California, New York, North Carolina, South Carolina, Utah and possibly Ohio. (Fox News, April 24, 2007). The urine of hogs in some states has tested positive for the chemical melamine the Food and Drug Administration said.

By Judi McLeod

Friday, April 20, 2007

ChemNutra, the Las Vegas importer of the contaminated wheat gluten that led to the original 100-plus packaged pet food recall—also imports pet sickening rice protein concentrate from China, "though from another source". "The company has been testing those shipments," according to spokesman Steve Stern. (Andrew Bridges, AP, April 18, 2007).

In other words, ChemNutra, whose Chinese headquarters are within 50 miles of wheat gluten-producing Xuhou Anying Biologic Technology Development Co. Ltd., is up to its bag brim in the rice gluten poison pet food scandal.

By Judi McLeod

Wednesday, April 18, 2007

Even with no conclusive answers from the Food and Drug Association (FDA) on which particular poison is sickening what respectable veterinarian associations claim could be "thousands" of pets, ChemNutra, the U.S. company that imported the tainted wheat gluten from China seems to have disappeared off the radar screen.

All questions to ChemNutra are now being fielded by Stern and Company, a Las Vegas-based public relations firm.

By Judi McLeod

Sunday, April 15, 2007

The pet food poison scare has just jumped from North America to the Caribbean Islands.

Associated Press is reporting today that two dogs in Puerto Rico died of kidney failure after eating dog biscuits that were among the 100-plus brands of pet foods and treats contaminated with an industrial chemical, according to a veterinarians' group.

By Judi McLeod

4/9/07

ChemNutra, the Las Vegas Nevada company confirmed by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) as the distributor of the contaminant in nearly 100 brands of pet foods has offices in the Communist People's Republic of China.

And ChemNutra's Chinese office is within 50 miles of Xuzhou Anying Biologic Technology Development Co. Ltd., the company fingered as the one with the wheat gluten killing what veterinarian says are hundreds of North America's pets.

By Judi McLeod

Friday, April 6, 2007

Tawdry is a fitting description of events tracing the source in the current poison pet food scare.

Even with respected veterinarian associations stating otherwise, officials leave the death count of family pets due to contaminated pet food at 16.

Vets are saying that the number is already up to several thousand and growing.