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On April 27, 2007, the Food and Drug Administration issued Import Alert #99-29.
The Import Alert involves vegetable protein products from China for both human and animal food use because of the
presence of "melamine and/or melamine analogs." This Import Alert demonstrates that this contamination was far more pervasive than previously thought.
Here is Food and Drug Administration's list of products from China at risk of such contamination:
- Wheat Gluten
- Rice Gluten
- Rice Protein
- Rice Protein Concentrate
- Corn Gluten
- Corn Gluten Meal
- Corn By-Products
- Soy Protein
- Soy Gluten
- Proteins (includes amino acids and protein hydrosylates)
- Mung Bean Protein
A "Poisonous or Deleterious Substance" that's
"Unfit For Food"
It is feared in some quarters that many of these seemingly ubiquitous vegetable protein products imported from China may contain, in Food and Drug Administration-speak, a "Poisonous or Deleterious Substance" that is "Unfit For Food". Nevertheless, it should be noted that, "There is very low risk to human health from consuming meat from hogs and chickens known to have been fed animal feed supplemented with pet food scraps that contained melamine and melamine-related compounds, according to an assessment conducted by scientists from five federal agencies." This statement is found in an Food and Drug Administration/USDA Joint News Release dated May 7, 2007.
Food and Drug Administration Received over 17,000 Consumer Complaints
The recent outbreak of cat and dog deaths and illness was associated with pet food manufactured with vegetable proteins contaminated with melamine and melamine related compounds. Responding to this outbreak, Food and Drug Administration launched what it called "an aggressive and intensive investigation." This followed "one of the largest pet food recalls in history, a recall that continues to expand." So far, Food and Drug Administration said, "18 firms have recalled product, 17 Class I and 1 class II, covering over 5,300 product lines. As of April 26, 2007, Food and Drug Administration had received over 17,000 consumer complaints relating to this outbreak, and those complaints included reports of approximately 1950 deaths of cats and 2200 deaths of dogs."
The Food and Drug Administration possibly holding out on who the wheat gluten supplier to Menu Foods was (we already know that Menu Foods, Nestle Purina PetCare Co. were holding out the info), and wouldnÕt you know that when I did a search on the Food and Drug Administration site with the terms Òwheat glutenÓ to verify the information being given to me, THIS popped up (will copy below)! If it was dated 3/30/07 WHY WASNÕT IT RELEASED TO THE PUBLIC SOONER???
Mind you, the supplier mentioned at the bottom of the Food and Drug Administration document, Xuzhou Anying Biologic Technology Development Co. Ltd, may in fact NOT be the one who supplied the wheat gluten to Menu Foods (sorry, but the notice gets a tad confusingÉwill refer to those of you with more knowledge on this subject to offer up some insight, please!), but it is, at the very least, one which has tainted wheat gluten. And this information posted by the Food and Drug Administration is a somewhat good sign that they seem to be checking supplies at some point. I would like to hear, though, why the Food and Drug Administration didnÕt bother putting a link to this information on the page theyÕve been posting all other pet food recall press releases. Oh wait, silly me, a press release means RELEASE (publicly) of information through the press and that is NOT what it seems they wanted to do with THIS particular information.
IÕm sure IÕll be adding more to this entry as information comes along, and I sure as heck hope main media sources are working on this development, too. If youÕd like to read more about the conversation weÕve been having here about wheat gluten, click here. Some great information by some fabulous posters in the comment sectionÉmany thanks to them! Please note that I had to adjust some formatting of the Food and Drug Administration notice below so that it would fit, but HOPEFULLY I didnÕt delete anything except a bunch of spaces. For the EXACT document, click the link here. Also, I could NOT find the attachments mentioned in the document anywhere on the site. That, of course, does not mean they werenÕt right in front of me
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source from: socalmuchacha.wordpress.com)
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The Food and Drug Administration is enforcing a new import alert that greatly expands its curtailment of some food ingredients imported from China, authorizing border inspectors to detain ingredients used in everything from noodles to breakfast bars.
The new restriction is likely to cause delays in the delivery of raw ingredients for the production of many commonly used products.
The move reflects the Food and Drug Administration's growing unease with what the alert announcement called China's "manufacturing control issues" and that country's inability to ascertain what controls are in place to prevent food contamination. For example, the agency says that, after weeks of investigation, it still does not know what regions of China are affected or what firms there are major manufacturers of vegetable proteins.
Inspectors are now allowed to detain vegetable-protein imports from China because they may contain the chemical melamine. Melamine, used in the manufacture of plastics, was found in the wheat gluten and rice protein concentrate that has led to the recall of 5,300 pet food products.
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