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NEW INFO TO WORRY ABOUT! GRRRR PLEASE HELP SPREAD
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Full details:
http://www.itchmo.com/read/fish-fed-melamine-tainted-feed_ 20070508

Latest recall-related news at: www.itchmo.com

Fish Fed Melamine-Tainted Feed, Rice Protein
Actually Wheat Gluten

Fish now affected by melamine-tainted feed.
Numbers unknown.

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 that contaminated fish feed ingredient
came 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 gluten added instead of rice
protein concentrate due to labeling issues.

Contaminated shipments labeled wheat flour: Not
labeled wheat gluten or rice protein concentrate.
Wheat gluten and wheat flour are related. Pet food
with contaminated rice protein concentrate
actually contained wheat gluten.

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.
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