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This latest news begins, “Ingredient used to make plastics, but no rat poison, found in samples.” Now, I really don’t understand what is going on, because wasn’t it announced just days ago that the substance had been identified, “as aminopterin, a cancer drug that once was used to induce abortions in the United States and is still used to kill rats in some other countries.”
Why do I get the impression that we are being spun a yarn here?
Continuing with today’s report:
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 in the wet-style products. The FDA was working to rule out the possibility that the contaminated wheat gluten could have made it into any human food, but was not aware of any risk to people.
Is this a wriggle? I thought there was a pretty clear consensus that the rat poison, not only was there, but was also the culprit for the deaths:
It wasn’t immediately clear whether the melamine was the culprit in the deaths of more than a dozen cats and dogs and the illnesses of hundreds more, said Stephen F. Sundlof, director of the FDA’s Center for Veterinary Medicine.
So far we have been told that this affects canned or wet pet food only, but now there’s this worrying piece of news. And, IMHO, they better start naming names PDQ, so we can avoid inadvertently killing our pets:
In a news conference, FDA officials said that the apparently melamine-contaminated wheat gluten also was shipped to a company that manufactures dry pet food, but they would not name the company. (emphasis added)
FDA tests reveal chemical in recalled pet food Via: Cat Blogosphere
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