Pet food recall news, 2 May: Chicken is DEFINITELY off the menu
Well, the update round for the new news ticker is in:
a) Upwards of 3.1 million chickens were slaughtered--and bought, and cooked, and eaten by the likes of you and me--before it was found they were contaminated from one run of contaminated feed (meaning there are probably lots more contaminated chickens in the food chain); 100,000 chickens are now quarantined and scheduled to be destroyed.
I think next time I go out, I'll be ordering the lamb. At least New Zealand has bans on Chinese-sourced grain :P
b) More reports re the synergistic effects of cyanuric acid and melamine in cat urine (now thought to be the cause of death)--reportedly plastic crystals found in urine are 70% cyanuric acid, 30% melamine, and may contain other melamine breakdown products. Some reports from vets are horrifying (including a report from a vet at the ASPCA's main hospital in New York describing the nearly complete plasticisation from within of a cat's kidneys).
c) Reportedly the FDA is finding melamine in over half the samples they've done so far of Chinese-origin grain products (those of us who've read the news re melamine doping in China being an open secret aren't too shocked at this).
a) Upwards of 3.1 million chickens were slaughtered--and bought, and cooked, and eaten by the likes of you and me--before it was found they were contaminated from one run of contaminated feed (meaning there are probably lots more contaminated chickens in the food chain); 100,000 chickens are now quarantined and scheduled to be destroyed.
I think next time I go out, I'll be ordering the lamb. At least New Zealand has bans on Chinese-sourced grain :P
b) More reports re the synergistic effects of cyanuric acid and melamine in cat urine (now thought to be the cause of death)--reportedly plastic crystals found in urine are 70% cyanuric acid, 30% melamine, and may contain other melamine breakdown products. Some reports from vets are horrifying (including a report from a vet at the ASPCA's main hospital in New York describing the nearly complete plasticisation from within of a cat's kidneys).
c) Reportedly the FDA is finding melamine in over half the samples they've done so far of Chinese-origin grain products (those of us who've read the news re melamine doping in China being an open secret aren't too shocked at this).