AP reports a second tainted pet food ingredient has been found; recall expanded.

[tiptoe]

Source: News Grinder

Melamine-contaminated wheat gluten is only part of the problem with ingredients imported from China for use in pet foods. Now Melamine has also been found in rice protein concentrate -- and that, too, came from China.
...
AP says:

"The chemical, melamine, is believed to have contaminated rice protein concentrate used to make a variety of Natural Balance Pet Foods products for both dogs and cats, the Food and Drug Administration said Wednesday."

Natural Balance is recalling all its Venison and Brown Rice canned and bagged dog foods, Venison and Brown Rice dog treats, and Venison and Green Pea dry cat food.

So far, there's no evidence the tainted rice protein has shown up in human food, but the FDA has not yet accounted for all the imported ingredient.
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Read more: http://newsgrinder.blogspot.com/2007/04/ap-reports-second-tainted-pet-food.html

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Added important info update not in earlier USA Today story: "So far, there's no evidence the tainted rice protein has shown up in human food, but the FDA has not yet accounted for all the imported ingredient."

(Make that the Bush-FDA)

[aquart]

1. Purina uses rice.

SHIT!

[barb162]

2. Pretty soon what we thought was safe throughout this ordeal

will be found otherwise. It's really disheartening as one more brand after another announces something.

[orleans]

3. it's the rice protein concentrate

check your ingredients

[tiptoe]

4. "...pet-food makers Nestlé Purina PetCare and Procter & Gamble said Tuesday that they don't use...

rice protein concentrate in their foods."

(from USA Today story posted earlier)

[NJCher]

7. thank you, tiptoe

appreciate the research.



Cher

[tiptoe]

16. you're welcome.

[aquart]

8. Thank you!

[tiptoe]

17. yah yah! :)

http://tinyurl.com/QKK23

[CountAllVotes]

23. Purina uses CORN gluten though

In the garbo for the cat treats!

This is gonna break me yet!

:grr:

:kick:

[NYC]

5. Recommended.

Spread the word.

[StarryNite]

6. "So far" no evidence

it's in human food. Gee, that sounds encouraging. I just don't buy it that human food isn't being contaminated too. Thanks for outsourcing us king george, you prick.

[kurth]

9. Ban all Chinese food imports

What are they waiting for?

[fasttense]

10. They are waiting for a mass of dead peasants

Once people start dying in droves (preferably non-uber rich folks) then they will stop importing Communist China's tainted food products. Until then eat up.

[underpants]

11. How about labeling to tell where the ingredients came from?

Oh no that's right the rightwingpopulists are against that because they were told to be and we mere citizens and sit and spin as far as they are concerned.

[lyonn]

21. Seems like a no brainer

Does the U.S. inspect food plants in China?

Is food from China inspected?

Who knows, but I have my doubts there are inspections.

[Vilis Veritas]

12. Tip of the ice berg...???

Thanks to farming out the manufacture of...well...EVERYTHING that the so called peasants (another poster on this thread) use to China in order to maximize the profit margins, we the people, are going to see more of the same. It will end up in our food supply. It is in the pet food supply, who here really thinks it has not made it into the food supply of people? Do we really need mass dyings? What about toxicity levels? It might take years for this to surface. The petfood supply may have been contaminated for years.

I read an article about manufacturing practices in China. They usually set up two plants. One that manufactures the product and one that manufactures the FACADE for the investors to see when they come to visit - Clean lines, quality inspectors, THE RIGHT INGREDIENTS, workers that are happy and working only 8 hour shifts, etc...

The other plant? Slave child and female laborers working 16 hour shifts. Poor or lacking quality control. Whatever ingredients are the cheapest and makes the product look and feel the same.

I want to believe this book is not true. I fear that it is.

This article bummed me out...sorry for passing it on...:-(

[The Backlash Cometh]

13. From China, with love.

[Felix Mala]

14. I have two sick dogs on two different diets, neither listed in recall

but Vet says, after tests, it has to be the dog food. I've been making their food at home and they are recovering. I can't understand why their brands are not on the recall list.

[catgirl]

15. What brands were you feeding them?

Do they have rice gluten in them?

[Shallah Kali]

19. VIN is going to have 5 nonrecalled foods tested that keeps showing up in case reports - link

http://www.sacbee.com/101/story/156967.html

Local veterinarians who've tracked kidney ailments nationwide have tentatively identified five more foods, not at this point under any recall, that they plan to have tested as soon as possible.

The Veterinary Information Network, used by about 16,000 of the estimated 35,000 U.S. veterinarians, noticed the five foods kept recurring in vet-described disease reports, said Paul Pion, the Davis vet who co-founded the service. Pion said it would be premature to name the foods.

He hopes to get suspect food samples to the California Animal Health and Food Safety Laboratory at UC Davis to start testing as early as today. As the recall expands, "my sense is it's time for every manufacturer to go testing for melamine," Pion said.

{snip}

Later, the New York Times reported that the Chinese company that supplied tainted wheat gluten to Menu Foods sought to buy large amounts of melamine through Internet trading sites.

[Shallah Kali]

18. Corn containing melamine kills pets in South Africa - article

http://www.news24.com/News24/South_Africa/News/0,,2-7-1442_2101493,00.html

Johannesburg - Tests have confirmed that Vets Choice and Royal Canin dog and cat dry pet-food products contained corn gluten contaminated with melamine, says the manufacturer.

The contaminated corn gluten was delivered to Royal Canin by a South African third-party supplier and appears to have originated from China.

Those products subject to the present recall were manufactured by Royal Canin South Africa in its Johannesburg plant between March 08 2007 and April 11 2007 and were sold exclusively in South Africa and Namibia.

[goforit]

20. I do use Natural Balance and this scares the shit out of me.

My dogs are bird dogs so therefore I only give them the duck and veggie version. Deer, beef and lamb are
not their natural food sources.

I have always prepared a special meal for them every night, chicken/turkey with real rice or potatoes along with the
Natural Balance dry meal. In addition, I have now filtered their water as well.

I live in a very humid climate and still to this day never used HEARTGARD heart worm preventative. With all the years I have owned dogs, they have never had heart worm. I have always felt the VETs always
got bonuses for pushing Heartgard, much less any other medication or specialized dog food.

So far my dogs have not had a reaction to Natural Balance, but now I will cook their food on my own until a solution is resolve.

I guess y'all can see I trust the US FDA....NOT!!!

[Eugene]

22. Royal Canin recalls dry pet-food products

Source: Reuters

Royal Canin recalls dry pet-food products

45 minutes ago

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Royal Canin USA said on Friday
it was voluntarily recalling all of its dry pet food products
containing rice protein concentrate after it found a
melamine derivative in some products.

Melamine is an industrial chemical used to make plastics
and fertilizers.

The announcement is the latest in a widening recall of
dog and cat food products across the United States since
mid-March. More than 100 brands of pet food have been
recalled after reports of cases of pets developing kidney
failure.

-snip-

Read more: http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070420/us_nm/royalcanin_recall_dc

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Also see Reply #18 regarding melamine found in corn gluten.

[stubtoe]

24. Recalled Royal Canin product list from their website

Link to webiste and list: http://www.royalcanin.us

"ROYAL CANIN SENSIBLE CHOICE® (available in pet specialty stores nationwide)

- Chicken Meal & Rice Formula Senior
- Lamb Meal & Rice Formula Puppy
- Lamb Meal & Rice Formula Adult
- Lamb Meal & Rice Formula Senior
- Rice & Catfish Meal Formula Adult

ROYAL CANIN VETERINARY DIET™ (available only in veterinary clinics)

- Canine Early Cardiac EC 22™
- Canine Skin Support SS21™
- Feline Hypoallergenic HP23™\

ALL PRODUCTS WITH AN EXPIRATION DATE OF APRIL 19TH, 2008 ARE MADE WITHOUT CHINESE SOURCED VEGETABLE PROTEINS AND ARE SAFE."