Millions of chickens fed tainted pet food

[Mr.Dad]

Just imagine if they wanted to tamper with our food supply what they could have done under our noses again........

I can't help but continue to be very disappointed with the overall security of this country.....

 

[Sugar Sand Farm]

Check out these websites for additional informatiion http://tinyurl.com/32fhfo and http://www.msnbc.msn.comliid/18400433/ Iits getting so you can't trust any feed for any animal Micki

 

[beckt]

I have been following this pretty close as I am in Indiana. I made a couple phone calls this morning. One to the manufactuer of the feed I use and was told that they only use U.S. grown products in all their products. I use Kent brand feed. The second call was made to Purdue University here in Indiana & was given the phone number to the State Chemists Office located on campus & was told that they can test pet food for the Melamine. So I would suggest anyone in question on their feed get the number to your State Chemists office & ask them if they will test.

Spotted Crow, I see you said you feed the Blue Seal brand & if you go to Kent Feeds web page you will see that they list Blue Seal as not being in any recall. I would say Blue Seal is also made by Kent Feed. The lady I talked to was in Iowa.

What was kinda funny about the call to Kent Feed was that I asked the rep. where she was located & she said Iowa, ok, then she asked me where I was from & I said Indiana. Then she asked me where in Indiana & I told her close to Indianapolis & she said how close? Then mentioned the city that I work in. Come to find out she is from Indiana. It sure is a small world.

 

[fowlweatherfriends]

Arrest made in poisoned pet food:

http://www.iht.com/bin/print.php?id=5554120

 

[Wolf]

Is there an actual list of poultry-feed brands effected by this crap?

I love how US govermental folks try so hard to bend over backwards to appease foreign countries over their "Trade"... we have to fit such a list of criteria to get approval to export our food-products overseas! But do the other countries have to reciprocate??? It seems the Chinese involved with this just thought they'd send their trash here for American's consumption! They posted a request for Melamine scraps so they could add it to the gluten for pet and meat-critter food to increase the "protein number" in the resulting feed? Anybody read that stuff?

I caught that in a news article yesterday... but I forgot which one...

 

[fowlweatherfriends]

Not very good news: millions chickens are held from being sold due to the food recall.

http://www.cnn.com/2007/HEALTH/05/05/petfood.recall.ap/index.html

 

[Mr.Dad]

QUOTE:

"It is time to grant the FDA and other food safety agencies clear mandatory recall and inspection authority," she said in a statement. "These initial steps would help create a modern, comprehensive food safety agency that will be capable of protecting our food supply and restoring consumer confidence."

You'd think we would have done that 5 1/2 years ago....along with securing our borders....

 

[birdlover]

I just opened a bag of Purina Layena when the whole chicken thing exploded. I just went to the following website for Purina and it says none of their livestock/poultry feed is involved in the recall. Here's the address:
www.purina-mills.com Don't know if anybody can believe anything anymore!!! grrrrrr

 

[farmgirl2477]

so thats why the cost of chicken and turkey had gone through the roof at the store! Ill have to admit, I havent been watching the news lately.

Fortunatly it seems that the bag of food I opened not long ago seems to be ok.

Shannon