CHICAGO, April 30 — Government investigators said Monday that byproducts from pet food contaminated with wheat gluten imported from China were used in chicken feed on some farms in Indiana.
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Melamine - the substance responsible for the recent spate of pet deaths, apparently made it into chicken feed stock. Those chickens have been processed and sent through the human food supply chain.
The Agriculture Department and the Food and Drug Administration said that some 30 broiler poultry farms and eight breeder poultry farms in Indiana had received contaminated feed in early February and fed it to chickens within days of receiving it. All of those potentially affected chickens have since been processed.
The source article also mentions over six thousand hogs fed with the tainted feed as well. Currently, the FDA is not concerned that these animals pose a risk to people given the dilution of the toxin through the animal.
More and more, my vegetarian wife is looking like the smart one in our family. I'm glad the FDA doesn't think there is any risk to us, but I'm still more than a bit worried to discover we all may have been eating this stuff:
Dictionary
mel·a·mine (mĕl'ə-mēn') pronunciation
n.
1. A white crystalline compound, C3H6N6, used in making melamine resins and for tanning leather.
2. A plastic made from such resin.
[German Melamin : blend of Melam, distillate of ammonium thiocyanate (mel-, arbitrary pref. + Am(monium), ammonium) and Amin, amine.]
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