[Cagdu] FW: USA: (RE: toxic contamination) FDA Testing Reveals Chemical in Pet Food

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Subject: USA: (RE: toxic contamination) FDA Testing Reveals Chemical in Pet
Food

Chicago Tribune news: FDA Testing Reveals Chemical in
Pet Food

chicagotribune.com

FDA Testing Reveals Chemical in Pet Food
By ANDREW BRIDGES
Associated Press Writer

March 30, 2007, 10:03 AM CDT

WASHINGTON -- Recalled pet foods contained a chemical
used to make plastics, but government tests failed to
confirm the presence of rat poison, federal
officials said Friday.

The Food and Drug Administration said it found
melamine in samples of the Menu Foods pet food, as
well as in wheat gluten used as an ingredient. Cornell
University scientists also have found the chemical,
also used as a fertilizer, in the urine of sick cats,
as well as in the kidney of one cat that died
after eating the company's wet food.

Menu Foods recalled 60 million containers of cat and
dog food earlier this month after animals died of
kidney failure after eating the Canadian company's
products. It is not clear how many pets may have been
poisoned by the apparently contaminated food, although
anecdotal reports suggest hundreds if not
thousands have died. The FDA alone has received more
than 8,000 complaints.

The new finding comes a week after scientists at the
New York State Food Laboratory identified a rat poison
and cancer drug called aminopterin as the likely
culprit. The FDA said it could not confirm that
finding.

New York officials have detected melamine as well,
though it's not clear how that chemical would have
poisoned pets. It's typically used to produce plastic
kitchen wares, though it's apparently used as a
fertilizer in Asia, said Stephen F. Sundlof, director
of the FDA's Center for Veterinary Medicine.

The recall involved nearly 100 brands of "cuts and
gravy" style dog and cat food made by Menu Foods. The
recall covered products carrying names of major
brand-name and private-label products sold throughout
North America.

The apparently melamine-contaminated wheat gluten also
was shipped to an unnamed company that manufactures
dry pet food. The FDA is attempting to determine
if that product, imported from China, was used to make
any pet food, Sundlof said.

Menu Foods used wheat gluten, a source of vegetable
protein, to thicken the gravy of its pet foods, FDA
officials have said.

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