Melamine has contaminated pork sold in California; criminal probe underway.

[pnwmom]

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/04/20/AR2007042002016.html

"The Food and Drug Administration has opened a criminal investigation in the widening pet food contamination scandal, officials said yesterday, as it was confirmed that tainted pork might have made its way onto human dinner plates in California.

More than 100 hogs that ate contaminated food at a custom slaughterhouse in California's Central Valley were sold to private individuals and to an unnamed licensed facility in Northern California during the past 2 1/2 weeks. The hogs consumed feed that contained rice protein tainted with melamine, the industrial chemical that has sickened and killed dogs and cats around the world.

Almost a dozen companies have found that they have used melamine-contaminated ingredients from China in their animal foods, either wheat gluten, corn gluten or rice protein concentrate. In the United States, more than 60 million containers of cat and dog food have been pulled from the market in the past five weeks.

People who bought pork from the American Hog Farm, a 1,500-animal facility in Ceres, Calif., between April 3 and April 18 are being advised not to eat the meat, California health officials said yesterday, although there have been no reports of illness in either people or the hogs. Authorities are tracking down all the purchasers.

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[Fovea]

1. Somehow this just puts a whole new frame

around the term 'Factory Farm' donnit?

[Madspirit]

2. I'm glad, personally

That it made it to the human food supply. NOW they might actually do something about it.
Lee

[lovuian]

3. FINALLY!!! they start thinking a CRIME has been done here

We have been freakin poisoned governments get a grip

[SoCalDem]

6. Lots of "kidney" ailments around these days...no?

What if this imposter-protein has been in our food supply for a long time?

I have a friend who is training for a new dialysis center job, and he was told that they cannot build these centers fast enough :(

[kestrel91316]

8. I have seen an increase in chronic renal insufficiency/failure cases

in the past year or so. Nothing really dramatic, probably just because it has been a busier year altogether, but it makes me go HMMMM. Especially because so few of my patients eat anything with wheat gluten or rice protein concentrate in it.........

[Rex]

4. As I said two weeks ago, get ready people here it comes.

Alot of us already know it is the human food supply. This is what happens when you gut the FDA...anyone remember the EPA?

[tavalon]

5. Yep

That was a no brainer. Sadly, our government seems to be filled with less than no brainers.

[pnwmom]

7. And even being a veggie won't keep you safe

since so many veggie foods contain various forms of gluten (as a binder, a source of protein, or as a meat substitute.)

[kestrel91316]

9. Highly processed foods of all stripes are the problem there, NOT

anything to do with meat eating.

I never did like that fake meat crap. Except for Morningstar Farms' fake breakfast sausage patties.........yummmmmmm. But haven't had them in years.

[Morgana LaFey]

10. Hmmm, wonder how long before it's safe to eat prok again? nt