Comments | zandperl: It's not just Chinese food that's poisoned anymore

zandperl

It's not just Chinese food that's poisoned anymore

Jan 21, 2009 21:03

In case you missed this news of the past few years, the melamine-poisoned milk from China that surfaced in Sept 2008 was prefaced a year and a half earlier in April 2007 by a massive recall of pet foods made by company Menu Foods due to melamine poisoning. Melamine is a chemical usually found in plastics that causes complete kidney shutdown in ( Read more... )

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spazzy444 January 22 2009, 04:28:19 UTC

Ummm.....what are you talking about... Peanut butter is being recalled like crazy! Especially peanut butter snacks like crackers & cookies.

zandperl January 22 2009, 04:45:56 UTC

People's replies to this are the first I'd heard of PB recalls.

spazzy444 January 22 2009, 15:50:22 UTC

Well, to be fair your post was the first I'd heard of the pet food....

http://www.fda.gov/opacom/7alerts.html

LOTS of PB things being recalled, might care to check it out to be safe.

galbinus_caeli January 22 2009, 16:01:41 UTC

And this time the Peanut butter came from a US factory. Here in Georgia.

zandperl January 22 2009, 16:27:38 UTC

Exactly. The pattern that started with pet foods in China exported to the US is now *originating* in the US.

spazzy444 January 23 2009, 20:54:26 UTC

Well at least this time is is a bacteria that has been an issue in our food supply since like 2005, and not chemicals meant to con people by producing false protein content.