ChemNutra, Xuzhou Anying Biologic Technology, Melamine
Scam artists in poisoned pet food scandal destroy evidence
By Judi McLeod
Thursday, May 10, 2007
Scam artists in the thriving food additive export industry are quickly giving the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) the reputation of Keystone Cops.
FDA officials made much of heading off to the Orient to get down to the roots of the melamine sickening and killing off thousands of cats and dogs in the ongoing contaminated pet food scandal. But even as they were telling us "Bon Voyage", melamine bossman Mao Lijun, who exported tainted wheat products to Las Vegas-based ChemNutra, was razing his own building.
This news comes courtesy of www.latimes.com and not the FDA.
"It wasn't authorities that finally acted: Mao himself razed the brick factory--days before the investigators from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration arrived in China on a mission to track down the source of the tainted pet food ingredients." (latimes.com, May 9, 2007).
It's not just the current distribution of tainted pet foods in which Mao plays a starring role. According to his own affected neighbours, his factory Xuzhou Anying Biologic Technology Development Co. had been sickening people and plants in Xuzhou, China for years.
Guess Global Warming promoter Al Gore and his sidekick Kyoto architect Maurice Strong--who calls China home--never made pit stops in Mao Lijun territory: "Farmers in this poor rural area about 400 miles northwest of Shanghai had complained to local government officials since 2004 that Mao's factory was spewing noxious fumes that made their eyes tear up and the poplar trees nearby shed their leaves prematurely. Yet no one stopped Mao's company from churning out bags of food powders and belching smoke--until one day last month when, in the middle of the night, bulldozers arrived and tore down the facility.
"In the end, Chinese authorities caught up with Mao and arrested him. And Tuesday, after weeks of denials, China acknowledged that Mao's company and another Chinese business had illegally exported wheat and rice products spiked with melamine, a chemical used in making plastics and fertilizers. That chemical is banned in foods in the U.S."
The same melamine that poisoned pets has been recycled in feed for thousands of hogs and millions of chickens in the U.S., and its latest path leads to feed for farmed fish in Canada and the U.S.
Long before anyone had heard of Mao's melamine, it had seeped with seasonal rains to his next-door neighbour's cornfield, killing off the crops.
"Xuzhou Anying's website posted certificates claiming, among other things, that it had won top quality grades..." ( " www.dickdestiny.com<>).
"The Times reported Xuzhou Anying's website, xzay.com, was down and pictures of its ESB Protein Powder, its melamine product, had been taken down. However, you can still see them on Alibaba, the global trading website. (DD did not verify xzay was gone.)
"However, it is possible to review Xuzhou Anying's website, up until April of last year, at archive.org.
"China is a big country of agriculture; the people's life is improving along with the development of social and need more meat, and egg and mild (sic)," reads a Xuhou webpage. "But for the high price of protein feed it improves the cost and decreases the benefit, which results in the pasturage develop slowly. 'ESB Biologic Protein Meal' settles the tableau of the protein resource in China, it decreases the cost of feed and improves the integral benefit and boosts the pasturage integral development of China. So developing the item is very necessary in this form."
ChemNutra, a supplier to MenuFoods--which distributed rebranded tainted pet foods-- has testified before a congressional hearing that it was Xuzhou Anying's victim.
"...Simple due diligence--or even a visit to the place and a talk with the locals--should have dissuaded a reasonable person, one not cutting corners in the mad pursuit of profit, to not do business with Xuhou and others of similar ilk," said www.dickdestiny.com.
ChemNutra maintains Chinese offices--or at least did in opening chapters of the poisoned pet food scare--in the same region as Mao's gluten factory.
The distance? Forty miles as the crow flies and 55 miles by road.
Attention FDA authorities: While you were holding media conferences with signs promoting organic foods in the background, someone tossed the proverbial baby out with the bathwater.
Scam artists took down thousands of our beloved pets and the poisoned powders they used have found their way to the human food chain--all in the name of dollar profit.
The only mystery left to solve is whether melamine in low concentrations in pork, chicken and fish, won't hurt you.
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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