Comments on: Pet-food recall: Another congressional hearing set

By: Robert M. Blevins

Robert M. Blevins — Mon, 23 Apr 2007 08:24:48 +0000

We signed on with the class-action suit in Seattle.
Anything that forces the pet food companies to rethink their safety policies is a good thing.

For those of you who don’t know, Adventure Books of Seattle lost our Offcial Office Cats ‘Ginger’ and ‘Sophie’ to tainted ‘Presidents’ Choice’ from Menu Foods. You can see their story, with pictures, at our Newsvine ‘Straight Talk’ page. Just scroll down the list of stories until you see the header ‘Close to Home - Victims of Menu Foods.’
http://www.adventurebooks.newsvine.com

Robert M. Blevins
Managing Editor
Adventure Books of Seattle

By: William Kanitz

William Kanitz — Mon, 23 Apr 2007 02:18:09 +0000

The upcoming hearing? “Diminished Capacity: Can the FDA Assure the Safety and Security of the Nation’s Food Supply?”

Not without mandatory recordkeeping from field to fork rules. Lets take corn and corn gluten here in the US,Diamond dog food used corn a 1 to 1 3/4 years ago that killed and sickened many dogs and they have yet to find the source of shippers of the micro toxin laced corn. Today the feed industry can not tell you which corn or corn gluten is in which bag or truck.They just are not keeping records period from source to finished product.

So my conclusion is NO ,the FDA CANNOT Assure the Safety and Security of the Nation’s Food Supply.

By: William Kanitz

William Kanitz — Mon, 23 Apr 2007 01:59:56 +0000

Your right Sharon,Administrative detention and record keeping in NOT being enforced. Most feed makers just don’t care a lick.No one checks up and the food maker and transporter doesn’t have a clue that the FDA rules say 24HOURS for all known food or feed handlers.The traceup should be to every retail store ,then they wouldn’t keep on selling pet food that HAD been recalled a week to two weeks ago.When the first reports of dead and sick pets came in months ago,The recall should have started THEN.

By: Sharon

Sharon — Sun, 22 Apr 2007 15:08:03 +0000

Administrative detention and record keeping are two requirements of the act. That is why I can say they aren’t doing their jobs. If they were the ingredients would have been detained and records seized at the minimun two months ago when the FDA was first notified of a problem.

http://sea.agr.gc.ca/us/bioterrorism_e.htm

By: William Kanitz

William Kanitz — Sun, 22 Apr 2007 03:01:51 +0000

Neither the FDA or Homeland Security are doing their jobs.Sharon Quote.

What really needs to be done is make sure that traceback records of pet food ingredients are keep and that the pet food customer can see country of origin of ingredients.The FDA Bioterrorism law came into effect in Dec. 2005 and June 2006. They have been not keeping records as if they did the info would be avaiable within 24 hours as per the law as the recalls would have been so much faster,less pets would have died.

By: Sharon

Sharon — Sat, 21 Apr 2007 22:50:23 +0000

Neither the FDA or Homeland Security are doing their jobs. They have the authority but not the will. The people heading these agencies are cronies of Bush who are not only incompetent but dangerous. They are in bed with industry and infused with power and greed. I hope they rot in hell.

By: CathyA

CathyA — Sat, 21 Apr 2007 10:40:46 +0000

Comment by Gary — April 20, 2007 @ 5:05 pm
Gary, what makes you think they haven’t? Remember they did “game” the possibility of planes hitting buildings………I can’t guarantee the intelligence or honesty of political appointees, and I’m sure the mechanism to deal with this situation never got fully put into place, but I will guarantee that scientists are not stupid. Seems they would have learned by now that slowing the information pipeline only freaks people out more.

By: William Kanitz

William Kanitz — Sat, 21 Apr 2007 02:52:53 +0000

Last Sunday, April 15, Wilbur-Ellis notified the U.S.
Food and Drug Administration that a single bag in a recent shipment of rice protein concentrate from its Chinese supplier, Binzhou Futian Biology Technology Co.
Ltd., had tested positive for melamine.
Unlike the other white-colored bags in that shipment, the bag in question was pink and had the word “melamine” stenciled upon it.
Wilbur-Ellis separated that bag and quarantined the entire shipment for further testing and since that time, no further deliveries of rice protein concentrate have been made.
Samples from the white bags tested negative for melamine.
However, subsequent and potentially more sensitive tests by the FDA came back positive for melamine, leading Wilbur-Ellis to voluntarily issue the recall.
Wilbur-Ellis began importing rice protein concentrate from Binzhou Futian Biology Technology in July 2006.
A total of 14 containers holding 336 metric tons of rice protein concentrate were sent from Futian to Wilbur-Ellis.
Correction ; not 100 tons BUT more as stated below!
Wilbur-Ellis has distributed 155 metric tons to date.

By: William Kanitz

William Kanitz — Sat, 21 Apr 2007 02:15:49 +0000

Quote;Hey FDA - It’s now after 9:00pm CDT and STILL we don’t know who the other 2 companies
are that sold POISON PET FOOD are!! **** They could or(Big Companies) might be the big one’s as there was over 100 tons as reported sold by Wilbur-Ellis of rice gluten laced with melamine.Seems like every story has a different twist by each reporter. Little news peices a little at a time.

By: Mary Smith

Mary Smith — Sat, 21 Apr 2007 01:13:27 +0000

Hey FDA - It’s now after 8:00pm CDT and STILL we don’t know who the other 2 companies
are that sold POISON PET FOOD are!! Why are you letting them get away with this??!!??