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Tainted-gluten-fed-pork

Poisoned pet food now on the human dinner table

By Judi McLeod

Monday, April 30, 2007

"Tainted-gluten-fed-pork has hit the dinner plates of humans, according to www.denverpost.com.

"California officials have revealed that the contamination got into the food chain. About 45 residents ate pork from hogs that consumed animal feed laced with melamine from China. Melamine is used to make plastics, but it also artificially boosts the protein level--and thus the price--of the glutens that go into food." (denverpost.com, April 29, 2007).

Even after Captain David Elder of the FDA said, "The combination of melamine and cyanuric acid is of concern to human and animal health," the FDA is saying that the recall of thousands of hogs was not warranted. (Italics, canadafreepress.com).

Given the way authorities have handled the contaminated pet food outbreak to date, we should be worried, very worried.

As Ann Hahn, of Atlanta wrote to Canada Free Press (CFP), "Pet owners believe we should all be very, very concerned. Why? Because cyanuric acid is a hydrolysis product of melamine. Melamine in and of itself is all right as long as you don't eat it and your body metabolizes it. And notwithstanding the fact that the wheat gluten imported by ChemNutra in the Menu Foods pet food recalled was "human grade"."

And the scary chain of events that got its start months ago doesn't even end there.

We know where the tainted-gluten-fed pork is. Ergo, we know too where the wheat gluten-tainted pet food went. It went into the pigs. The pigs went into the human food supply.

"In a joint statement, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) stressed, "We are not aware of any human illness that has occurred from the exposure to melamine or by its by-products." They added that they have identified no illnesses in swine fed the contaminated feed." (Forbes.com, April 29, 2007).

No statement from either party about why salvaged pet food known to be contaminated was fed to farm animals.

Somewhere out there –destination unknown--are 440,000 pounds or 201 tones of the Las Vegas-based ChemNutra's rice protein concentrate, imported from the same Chinese trading agent that handled exports of the tainted wheat gluten.

According to ChemNutra PR spokesman Steve Stern, 10 of the 11 containers of rice protein concentrated imported by ChemNutra over the last year went to undisclosed pet food companies. The 11th is under quarantine and being tested. But just one of the other 10 is known to have been tested; results from those tests, conducted last week, showed it was not contaminated, Stern said.

Now we have a deadly cycle where ChemNutra's wheat gluten was making the rounds until pets became ill or died, its end product going to feed hogs and 201 tons of ChemNutra's rice protein concentrate still out there.

If that's not enough to have people throwing their dinner forks and knives away, check out the latest news from Zhangqiu, China, where operatives openly admit the practice of leftover melamine scrap--small acorn-shaped chunks of white rock--is being sold to local entrepreneurs--and has been for years. Our Chinese friends readily admit that they "secretly mix a powdered form of the scrap into animal feed to artificially enhance the protein level."

"The melamine powder has been dubbed "fake protein" and is used to deceive those who raise animals into thinking they are buying feed that provides higher nutrition value." (International Herald Tribune, April 29, 2007.) "It just saves money," says a manager at an animal feed factory here. "Melamine scrap is added to animal feed to boost the protein level."

FDA agents headed to the Orient should skip Xuzhou Anying Biologic Technology Development Co. Ltd., where all traces of wheat gluten would be long gone and head right over to Zhangqiu, the heavily polluted city in Shandong Province in the northern part of the country.

Better still they should be chasing down ChemNutra's 201 tones of rice protein concentrate on American soil.

In their own words (ChemNutra website, Feb. 6, 2005): "ChemNutra imports high-quality nutritional and pharmaceutical chemicals from China to the U.S…. The types of chemicals we import are amino acids, vitamins, preservatives & antioxidants, nutritional minerals, proteins, flavors & flavor enhancers, thickeners & emulsifiers, acidifying agents and sweetners."

"The principals of ChemNutra have exported over $100 million of feed, food and pharma ingredients from China to manufacturers in the US and elsewhere worldwide. Annually our volume exceeds 1,000 tons of Amino Acids, plus many other quality ingredients."

A husband and wife team runs ChemNutra, and because no list of a board of directors seems to exist anywhere, no one knows its principals.

For reasons unknown, Sally Qing Miller, ChemNutra president, has maintained a low profile since the outbreak of the contaminated pet food.

As well as having earned an MBA, Sally Miller has earned an Engineering degree in Food Engineering. She has been a member of the Institute for Supply Management in the U.S. Sally Miller has also been certified as an IS0 9000 Chief Auditor.

The ISO (International organization for Standardization) 9000 family is primarily concerned with "quality management", which includes "applicable regulatory requirements".

The contaminated pet food which made ill and even killed off an untold number of cats and dogs and was then fed as "salvaged" food to hogs--which some 45 people have eaten--is a cautionary tale whose end could bring disaster for the human populations of North America, Puerto Rico and South Africa.

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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