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Saturday, April 07, 2007
The continuing (pet) food contamination scandal
note: Wheat Gluten is also used in human foods such as noodles (macaroni, spaghetti, etc,), cereals, ice cream, chocolate beverages, and more. Are there investigations of whether manufacturers used this Chinese supplied wheat gluten in foods intended for human consumption? Menu Foods didn't supply the Alabama manufacturer of the dog treats. Previous mention was made that a US supplier/manufacturer had imported the contaminated wheat gluten and that the FDA was shielding that supplier. Does this US Supplier also manufacture foods for human consumption? We are getting a glimpse of the inter-relations inside our food manufacturing industry as scrambling and heavy CYA is taking place.
note 2: I just finished removing the recalled Ol'Roy dog biscuits from my dog treat bin. Last week I purchased a bag of them for my dog Maggie Mae. They are easily identifiable, with Ol' Roy molded into the upper surface of the biscuit. I have approximately 3 pounds of them. Sunshine Mills was the manufacturer of the Ol'Roy brand dog biscuits. See the Sunshine Mills press release [link at bottom of this page] for their list of affected dog biscuits.
note 3: A major importer and distributor of wheat gluten and other Chinese manufactured chemicals is ChemNutra Inc. The link is at the bottom of this page. Their press release says that they only shipped the gluten to manufacturers that produced pet foods, but they do not release the 4 major customers they serviced. More coverup. We know that Nestle-Purina was one and the Nestle side of that business is all human food production. Did any gluten cross over as a cheap source cost cutter? They claim not but when the almighty dollar is involved, cost cutting happens.
Wal-Mart dog treats join pet food recall
Cross posted from Yahoo News (the link at left will dissapear in a day or two, Yahoo Links SUCK!)
By ANDREW BRIDGES, Associated Press Writer Thu Apr 5, 2:52 PM ET
WASHINGTON - The recall of pet foods and treats contaminated with an industrial chemical expanded Thursday to include dog biscuits made by an Alabama company and sold by Wal-Mart under the Ol'Roy brand.
The Food and Drug Administration said the manufacturer, Sunshine Mills Inc., is recalling dog biscuits made with imported Chinese wheat gluten. Testing has revealed the wheat gluten, a protein source, was contaminated with melamine, used to make plastics and other industrial products.
Also Thursday, Menu Foods, a major manufacturer of brand- and private-label wet pet foods expanded its original recall to include a broader range of dates and varieties. Menu Foods was the first of at least six companies to recall the now more than 100 brands of pet foods and treats made with the contaminated ingredient.
The recall now covers "cuts and gravy"-style products made between Nov. 8 and March 6, Menu Foods said. Previously, it only applied to products made beginning Dec. 3. In addition, Menu Foods said it was expanding the recall to include more varieties, but no new brands.
The FDA knows of no other pet product companies planning recalls, agency officials told reporters.
"Other than that, I think, you know, the public should feel secure in purchasing pet foods that are not subject to the recall," Stephen Sundlof, director of the FDA's Center for Veterinary Medicine, told reporters.
Sunshine, of Red Bay, Ala., sells pet foods and treats under its own brands as well as private labels sold by grocery, mass merchant and dollar stores, according to its Web site. The recall included some of the products made for sale under five private labels, including Ol'Roy biscuits, sold by Wal-Mart Stores Inc., and Stater Bros. large biscuits, sold by Stater Bros. Markets. It also covered a portion of Sunshine's own Nurture, Lassie and Pet Life dog biscuit brands.
Previously, Menu Foods had recalled some wet-style dog foods it made for sale under the Stater Bros. and Ol'Roy brands as well.
Sunshine said there have been no reports of dog illnesses or deaths in connection with the recalled dog biscuits, which contain one percent or less wheat gluten by weight.
The FDA continues to focus on melamine as the suspected contaminant of the pet products, though Sundlof said it could be a marker for the presence of another, yet-unknown substance. Melamine previously was not believed to be toxic.
The recall is one of the largest pet food recalls in history, Sundlof said. The FDA has received more than 12,000 complaints but has confirmed only about 15 pet deaths. Anecdotal reports suggest the tally is in the hundreds or low thousands.
Sunshine Mills said it would post a complete list of the recalled dog biscuits on its Web site, http://www.sunshinemills.com/.
The FDA last week blocked wheat gluten imports from the Xuzhou Anying Biologic Technology Development Co. in the eastern city of Xuzhou, saying they contained melamine. A Las Vegas importer, ChemNutra Inc., recalled this week all wheat gluten it had purchased from the supplier and in turn distributed to pet food manufacturers.
Xuzhou Anying has said it is investigating the claims.
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Sunshine Mills Inc.: http://www.sunshinemills.com/
Sunshine Mills Press release: http://www.sunshinemills.com/press_release.html
FDA pet food recall: http://www.fda.gov/oc/opacom/hottopics/petfood.html
another FDA link: http://www.fda.gov/bbs/topics/NEWS/2007/NEW01590.html
and another:http://www.fda.gov/oc/po/firmrecalls/archive.html
ChemNutra Inc.: http://chemnutra.com/
FDA recall RSS Feed
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Monday, April 02, 2007
The pet food scandal
As the weeks drag on more is coming out. Menu Foods in Canada was listed as the manufacturer with a supplier of contaminated wheat gluten from China. The latest info from Associated Press is that the supplier is in the USA that the FDA refuses to disclose. The FDA is after all a bureaucracy. Bureaucrats are available to the highest bidders and there are mega bucks in the food industry. Wheat gluten is a protein and is used in many pet and human foods, ice cream, macaroni products, some instant chocolate beverages, breakfast cereals, etc.
My questions:
- How much of this USA supplied wheat gluten was used in human food?
- Why is the FDA hiding the identity of this US supplier?
Looks like some very heavy CYA is going on right now.
[update: Looks like Nestle-Purina is a MAJOR importer of chinese wheat gluten though they claim that the contaminated product was limited to pet foods. I still cant get it out of my head that this is a producer of many human food products through the Nestle side of the business. Wheat gluten is WIDELY used in food products including chocolate beverages. Does Nestles Quick use any wheat gluten? It is a common additive to this type of beverage. I have to check if I have any in the pantry. Gluten is also common in noodle products, breakfast cereals, and ice cream products. Is this the US manufacturer that the FDA is shielding? BTW didja know that Nestle is a Swiss company?]
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Thursday, March 01, 2007
Cuba, the next bio-terror source
From the NewsMax.com Staff
For the story behind the story...
Wednesday, Feb. 28, 2007 9:51 a.m. EST
Defector: Cuba Preparing Biological Weapons
The former head of Cuba’s military medical services says the communist government is stockpiling biological warfare agents like the plague, botulism and yellow fever at a secret underground lab near Havana.
Roberto Ortega ran the Cuban military’s medical services from 1984 to 1994 and defected to the U.S. in 2003. He said he told the CIA nearly two years ago about the secret Cuban facility, and is speaking publicly now because he did not see the CIA take action on his information and wants international inspections of the lab.
The Cubans "can develop viruses and bacteria and dangerous sicknesses that are currently unknown and difficult to diagnose,” Ortega told the Miami Herald. "They don’t need missiles or troops, they need four agents, like the people from al-Qaida or the Taliban, who contaminate water, air conditioning or heating systems.”
According to Ortega, Cuba was prepared to use the biological weapons "to blackmail the United States in case of an international incident” such as the threat of an American invasion.
Ortega told the Herald he visited the lab, called Labor One, in 1992 when he accompanied a high-level Russian military delegation.
"I saw it,” he said. "I lived it.”
Russian defector Ken Alibek, who was deputy director of the Soviet Union’s bioweapons program, told the Herald: "If you ask whether the Cubans are capable [of developing bioweapons], I’d say easily.”
[ed: This defector, Ortega, has been sounding the alarm for some time and has been ignored...or has he? Now we see another example of the danger of El Presidente Jorge Boosh leaving the border open and unprotected. Kinda makes you wonder what is the REAL Bush agenda, doesn't it? He obviously does not give a good god damn about the USA borders, sovereignty, and safety, or he could have cleared out the illegals and secured the border years ago. So what is the traitor in chief really up to? Cubans already speak the language. Many (or most) could pass for Mexican to waltz across the border carrying enough bioterror supplies to kill a big city, all with the Bush blessing, imprimatur, and nihil obstat! The border patrol gets prosecuted for doing its job, and the national guards are under orders to retreat at the possibility of confrontation. Whatever it is, Senator Mel Martinez is neck deep in it too!]
[ed: Please pardon my french, but I am really very angry right now!]
[note: nihil obstat - latin meaning "nothing hinders". Used by Roman Catholic Bishops to certify that a copy of the bible is a true translation. And YES the National Council of Bishops of the American Catholic Church is complicit in the open borders conspiracy.]
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