Melamine in pet food, wheat gluten from China : FDA

I've been doing research to locate the corporate hands creating the chemicals here and the more I search the US news the more walls to finding facts and statements of concerns come up. There's a bit of a chemical trail but here's a link to an updated report and the FDA is protecting someone and the statement about contaminating human food even more vague. Plus we have so much, " a spokesman said" like people don't have names in the new millennium? The link but quotes..

In a news conference, Sundlof and other FDA officials said the melamine had contaminated a shipment of wheat gluten imported from China and purchased by Menu Foods from an undisclosed supplier in the United States. At least some of the that wheat gluten was used in all the recalled wet pet food, according to Menu Foods.

Why is any supplier undisclosed at this point, we had some poor janitor falsely accused of molesting a school kid and ever network had him lead every half hour. Here we know they're killing animals and they get to keep a name out of the news? I bet the petrochemical or Carlyle links on my link above are a clue to why there's a silence.

FDA emphasized it had found no indication that the contaminated ingredient had been used in food for people. The FDA said it would alert the public quickly if the melamine was found in any foods other than the recalled pet food.

About 70 percent of the wheat gluten used in the United States for human and pet food is imported from the European Union and Asia, according to the Pet Food Institute, an industry group.

And this should make us feel good that a pet food lobby says they use the same thing as humans eat and the FDA says they haven't heard bad news for people yet but trust they'll let us know.?? Forgive me if it seems a bit off the deep end but for 7 years I've dug into the horrid practices and inadequate measures to protect the food and this is like the tip of the iceberg.

I am heartbroken over the dying pets and hope so much people keep after the truth here and get the food ingredients and handling out in full view before we have something far sadder to live with.

Important point the accused school janitor of like 28 years was cleared the next day but all the news had smeared him, but the known corporation gets protection, horrible double standard in this One Nation Under Corporate Rules!!

That undisclosed corporation just might be involved in boosting the protein in your breakfast cereal and tortillas, etc.

The IWGA lists a variety of ways wheat gluten is used including in aquaculture, breakfast cereals and tortillas. It said significant quantities of vital wheat gluten are used by the pet food industry.

Now, this is a posting I would like to see: "Johnny Doe, a grocery delivery boy, noticed that all of a sudden, Ms xxx, a big shot at the xxx import company, stopped buying cat food, breakfast cereal and tortillas. Since last week, he's been skipping breakfast and snacks while he spends more time fishing for his cat's meals."

Ask your checkout person who stopped buying tortillas last week so we might get a lead on this.

Kathy, so sorry for the loss. Every broken heart hurts, that was my article when this started, puppy love and broken hearts anyway I'm rambling, too tired now, it's late and my memory isn't kicking in so well. There's another more recent AP piece, tagged with menu or pet food, U left a comment, something to track, but the toxicologist talked about how the melamine wasn't supposed to be toxic. It may have been the one about the lab's sudden notoriety.

Loopy road to the point, one of the common elements of the gmos is suppression of immune system, raising susceptibility to other things. It is a flag with the bees, I know the study they keep pointing to where selective exposure to the Bt didn't cause them to croak but immune failures are subtle and often manifest in a spectrum of secondary cause. It just stuck in my head and thought you'd be one who would take note of the factoid as a point to consider as you read and write. :~)

That U was I left a comment...side by side here U&I...lol...bed time for mom :~)

Heh. I left a comment, too.

Greg's loss was heartbreaking. Thank you. We held is hand, so to speak, across the miles with a couple of very long telephone calls. Then we drove out for his birthday.