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Cat Forum / Health and Behavior / April 2007China Gluten Blocked After Pet Food Recall
China Gluten Blocked After Pet Food Recall Chemical Melamie Found In Wheat Gluten Samples WASHINGTON -- The government has blocked imports of wheat gluten from a company in China because of contamination, acting after the recent pet-food deaths of cats and dogs in the U.S. The Food and Drug Administration took action against wheat gluten from Xuzhou Anying Biologic Technology Development Co. in Wangdien, China, after the U.S. recall of nearly 100 brands of pet food. Tainted pet food apparently has resulted in kidney failure in animals across the country. Imported wheat gluten from China was suspected in the outbreak, and the FDA reported last week that it had found the chemical melamine in samples of the gluten, which was used in the pet foods. On Monday, the FDA posted an import alert on its Web page notifying its field offices to detain any gluten offered for import from the company. The order applies to gluten from China as well as from the Netherlands, a country through which transshipping of Chinese products can occur. Their business is providing gluten for edible-animal feed. Pet food additive is a small fraction. The FDA needs to provide some direction fast: 1. Does this alter safety of meat and milk from our feedlot cattle? 2. What is supposed to happen to already pelletized animal feed? 3. Exactly what do we do with rail cars used to ship this crap, assuming they haven't been refilled with food grade grain and the end user finds a landfill in which to dump the unused contents (if any)? > I posted: > > My not-always-reliable sources tell me that the probable vendor for the [quoted text clipped - 12 lines] > political wisdom of keeping silent will be poor once the extent of the > problem comes out. > China Gluten Blocked After Pet Food Recall > Chemical Melamie Found In Wheat Gluten Samples [quoted text clipped - 19 lines] > The order applies to gluten from China as well as from the Netherlands, a > country through which transshipping of Chinese products can occur. This is scary: "The Chinese supplier sells both animal-feed-grade wheat gluten and human-food-grade gluten. Menu Foods, which manufactured most of the recalled pet foods, has said that the wheat gluten it used was human food grade." http://www.usatoday.com/news/world/2007-04-02-china-pet-food_N.htm "Geng Xiujuan, Xuzhou Anying's sales manager, said the company was aware of the FDA's import alert and was looking into it. However, Geng said the company, based in the eastern province of Jiangsu, had not manufactured the wheat gluten but had instead bought it from companies in neighboring provinces. She said Xuzhou Anying sold it onward to another Jiangsu company, Suzhou Textile Import and Export Co." http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/17915607/ Where's Steve Crane? I want him to tell me again that Hill's only uses fixed formulas and not least cost formulation... > http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/17915607/ > > Where's Steve Crane? I want him to tell me again that Hill's only uses > fixed > formulas and not least cost formulation... Heh heh. "You could see crystals in the wheat gluten" Jeeez.... Also, I think thousands of cats have died. ...too much anecdotal evidence. This story might be being repressed (censored). Tainted pet food a bigger risk to cats - Pet Health - MSNBC.com You could see crystals in the wheat gluten,” Sundlof told The Associated Press. Feline sensitivity a mystery Sundlof and others have not been able to ... www.msnbc.msn.com/id/17870750/ - 61k - Cached - They’ve also found the chemical, in apparently raw form in concentrations as high as 6.6 percent, in wheat gluten used as ingredient of the recalled cat and dog foods, said Stephen Sundlof, the FDA’s chief veterinarian. “There was a sizable amount of melamine. You could see crystals in the wheat gluten,” Sundlof told The Associated Press. Pet Food Recall Expanded - Melamine & Wheat Gluten Toxicity The latest recall is associated with melamine, found in the wheat gluten ... may be sufficiently high to cause the formation of crystals in kidney tubules. ... chemistry.about.com/b/a/257722.htm - 24k - Cached - Similar pages Chemistry Blog Pet Food Recall Expanded - Melamine & Wheat Gluten Toxicity ... in the gluten may be sufficiently high to cause the formation of crystals in kidney tubules. ... chemistry.about.com/b/ - 47k - http://chemistry.about.com/b/a/257722.htm - Cached - Similar pages Although I can't see how a wheat fertilizer (melamine) and rodenticide (aminopterin) would be present in high concentrations in the food, the contamination may be the result of poor processing, and not some intentional addition. Melamine normally is not considered a toxic ingredient, but the concentration in the gluten may be sufficiently high to cause the formation of crystals in kidney tubules. Although there are two separate toxins now, the damage and symptoms of poisoning are essentially the same (unusual behavior, loss of appetite or vomiting, excessive thirst, excessive urination, diarrhea). In lower doses, melamine acts as a diuretic, so I would say increased thirst and urination would be likely initial symptoms. [ More results from chemistry.about.com ] WSVN-TV - National News - Pet food contaminant believed more ... You could see crystals in the wheat gluten," Sundlof told The Associated Press. Sundlof and others have not been able to explain why the chemical would have ... www1.wsvn.com/news/articles/national/BO47745/ - 24k - Cached - Similar pages  SignatureWhen one gains a political certainty akin to a loyal sports fan, one has achieved the final tranquility of servitude, a joyous slavery. "If ye love wealth better than liberty, the tranquility of servitude better than the animating contest of freedom, go home from us in peace. We ask not your counsels or arms. Crouch down and lick the hands which feed you. May your chains set lightly upon you, and may posterity forget that ye were our countrymen." - Samuel Adams, August 1, 1776 |
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