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The Food and Drug
Administration<http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/related-topics.html?subject=U.S.+Food+and+Drug+Administration>has
opened a criminal investigation in the widening pet food contamination
scandal, officials said yesterday, as it was confirmed that tainted pork
might have made its way onto human dinner plates in California.
More than 100 hogs that ate contaminated food at a custom slaughterhouse in
California<http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/related-topics.html?subject=California>'s
Central Valley were sold to private individuals and to an unnamed licensed
facility in Northern California during the past 2 1/2 weeks. The hogs
consumed feed that contained rice protein tainted with melamine, the
industrial chemical that has sickened and killed dogs and cats around the
world.
Almost a dozen companies have found that they have used
melamine-contaminated ingredients from
China<http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/related-topics.html?subject=China>in
their animal foods, either wheat gluten, corn gluten or rice protein
concentrate. In the United
States<http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/related-topics.html?subject=United+States>,
more than 60 million containers of cat and dog food have been pulled from
the market in the past five weeks.
Late Thursday, Royal Canin
USA<http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/related-topics.html?subject=Royal+Canin+SA>became
the most recent company to recall pet foods. Some of its brands were
contaminated with rice protein concentrate. Its South
African<http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/related-topics.html?subject=South+Africa>subsidiary
said contaminated corn gluten had been linked to the deaths of 30
pets there.
Five companies received the contaminated Chinese rice protein concentrate.
Three firms have identified themselves by announcing recalls; the other two
are not publicly known because the FDA will not name them until the
companies say they used contaminants in their products.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/04/20/AR2007042002016.html?referrer=emailarticle
Candace
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