From:
"Sukie Crandall"
Date: 2007-05-09 20:23:52 UTC
Subject: [ferrethealth] Re: some new melamine contamination info
To: ferrethealth@yahoogroups.com
There is a shorter link now for the FDA news interview
transcript today:
TRANSCRIPT OF MEDIA BRIEFING UPDATE BY FDA AND USDA
REGARDING ADULTERATED ANIMAL FEED
http://www.usda.gov/wps/portal?contentidonly=true&contentid=2007/05/0134.xml
Among other things, here are some bullet points:
1. all products claiming to be vegetable protein
concentrates from China are being tested.
2. the testing will expand to imports from
elsewhere
3. BOTH the "wheat gluten" (wheat that goes through
processing to remove the starch and concentrate the
protein), and what was supposed to be a rice protein
concentrate turned out to be just wheat flour with
melamine
4. the testing may expand to imported wheat flour but
since melamine when added gives falsely high
protein readings due increased nitrogen levels they
are concentrating for now on things that claim to have
high protein levels
5. the testing will also include imported fish meal
from China
6. the reason the fish were not tested until now
was because they had to create a reasonable way to
test (since it was suspected that some farmed fish
would be involved) and because the records of such
products are just now being found at the selling
companies
7. some reporters worried about the lack of
quality control this may point to at some
purchasing companies which process the foods
8. the two Chinese companies so far implicated have
sold to our market through importers since some
time in 2006
9. possible long term kidney effects have to still be
studied
10. about half of the quarantines chickens were found
safe enough to allow to be slaughtered, but another
10 million are still under quarantine
Sukie (not a vet)
Recommended ferret health links:
http://pets.groups.yahoo.com/group/ferrethealth/
http://ferrethealth.org/archive/
http://www.afip.org/ferrets/index.html
http://www.miamiferret.org/fhc/
http://www.ferretcongress.org/
http://www.trifl.org/index.shtml
http://homepage.mac.com/sukie/sukiesferretlinks.html
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