Wheat, corn, rice gluten
Will China's poisoned pet food lead next to human food chain?
By Judi McLeod
Friday, April 20, 2007
ChemNutra, the Las Vegas importer of the contaminated wheat gluten that led to the original 100-plus packaged pet food recall--also imports pet sickening rice protein concentrate from China, "though from another source". "The company has been testing those shipments," according to spokesman Steve Stern. (Andrew Bridges, AP, April 18, 2007).
In other words, ChemNutra, whose Chinese headquarters are within 50 miles of wheat gluten-producing Xuhou Anying Biologic Technology Development Co. Ltd., is up to its bag brim in the rice gluten poison pet food scandal.
Binzhou Futian Biology Technology Co. Ltd. is suspected as the company making the rice protein.
In the poisonous path leading to dead or sickened animals, first came North America, then Puerto Rico. Now 30 pets are dead from contaminated pet food in South Africa.
"Tests have confirmed that Vets Choice and Royal Canin dog and cat dry pet-food products contained corn gluten contaminated with melamine, says the manufacturer. The contaminated corn gluten was delivered to Royal Canin by a South African third-party supplier and appears to have originated from China. www.news24.com.
Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has hit a dead end in its ongoing investigation into the pet food scandal: "U.S. senator Dick Durbin (D-IL) and Congresswoman Rosa DeLauro (D-CT) today met with U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) Commissioner, Andrew von Eschenbach…"
"In the meeting, Durbin and DeLauro learned that the Chinese government has blocked requests from the FDA to send personnel to China to inspect the facilities suspected of producing the contaminated products." www.how1911.com.
Sherlock Holmes' hint for FDA: ChemNutra Chinese headquarters, Zuhou Anying Biologic Technology Development Co. Ltd. and Binzhou Futian Biology Technology Co. Ltd. are all within the same 300 to 400-mile region of each other, right there on the East coast of China.
Faster and cheaper than a slow boat to China: ChemNutra's Las Vegas office is located at Durango and Charleston Streets.
Detective tip two: ChemNutra President Sally Qing Miller is now plain Sally Miller and according to information retrieved by Canada Free Press (CFP) from www.thewaybackmachine dropped the Qing after February 2005.
Nineteen dogs in Cape Town and Johannesburg--who ate Vets Choice food--have been diagnosed with acute kidney failure, according to News 24, South Africa's premier news source.
This isn't the first time South African pet owners have worried about the food they're feeding their dogs and cats.
Earlier this year, approximately 35 dogs in that country died after eating toxic pet food. In that case, the pets died from ethylene glycol-contaminated food--manufactured by Aquanutro--and sold at Woolworth's in South Africa.
Word that the contaminated pet food may lean more on deliberate than accidental is drifting out from Washington, D.C.
"It could have been intentional, not accidental," Senator Durban said in an interview after meeting privately in his office with federal health officials. "Economic fraud is a "theory" the investigators are pursuing, Durbin said.
Meanwhile the raw-materials-in-food-originating-from-China story--knocked from the headlines by Anna Nicole Smith, Dom Imus and the 24-7 television clips of Virginia Tech massacre gunman Cho Seung-Hui-- has taken on more sinister tones.
Earth to mainstream media: The story has deadly potential for bigger game than Fido and Fluffy. We all have to eat.
Canada Free Press founding editor Most recent by Judi McLeod is an award-winning journalist with 30 years experience in the print media. Her work has appeared on Newsmax.com, Drudge Report, Foxnews.com, Glenn Beck. Judi can be reached at: judi@canadafreepress.com
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