Animals
The directive from Mission Foods Corp. and Tyson Foods Inc., made quietly earlier this month, underscored consumers’ and manufacturers’ fears about the safety of imported food ingredients after contaminated wheat products from China killed and sickened cats and dogs in the United States.
In the last decade, China has become the world’s leading supplier of many food flavorings, vitamins and preservatives. Like fingernail clippers, playing cards, Christmas ornaments and other items, some food additives are available in large quantities only from China.
- From The New York Times
Contamination with melamine is especially embarrassing. Pet food that included ingredients made in China laced with melamine sickened thousands of pets and killed an unknown number last year in the United States, and the Chinese government promised at...
- Not Enough
Chinese regulators said today that they had revoked the licenses of three companies that had exported mislabeled drug ingredients and tainted pet food ingredients to the United States and other parts of the world. Well it's about time. The tainted...
- Pet Food Recall ~ Ban Ingredients Of Chinese Origin
After dogs began falling ill and dying as a result of eating the food, Royal Canin SA recalled a number of its products, and stated it would no longer use any ingredients of Chinese origin in their foods. The government of South Africa also stopped imports...
- Pet Food Recall ~china Says Don't Blame Us For Killing Your Pets
The New York Times is reporting in Thursday's paper that China has urged the United States not to take punitive action against the country's exporters of agricultural goods even though the government found that two Chinese companies intentionally...
- Has The Wheat Gluten Gotten Into The Human Food Supply?
Has the wheat gluten gotten into the HUMAN food supply? Check out the post at PetConnection, links are provided to the USA Today article. Wheat gluten in wet pet foods is largely used as a binding agent. In dry foods, it's used as a cheap source of...
Animals
Pet Food Recall ~ no more ingredients from China.
As the tainted pet-food recall mushroomed into an international scandal, two of the largest U.S. food manufacturers put out a blanket order to their American suppliers: no more ingredients from China.
The directive from Mission Foods Corp. and Tyson Foods Inc., made quietly earlier this month, underscored consumers’ and manufacturers’ fears about the safety of imported food ingredients after contaminated wheat products from China killed and sickened cats and dogs in the United States.
Finally!!!!!
But to my horror the article in The State goes on to say.
But to my horror the article in The State goes on to say.
The problem is, what Mission and Tyson want is next to impossible.
In the last decade, China has become the world’s leading supplier of many food flavorings, vitamins and preservatives. Like fingernail clippers, playing cards, Christmas ornaments and other items, some food additives are available in large quantities only from China.
That's a disgrace. We need a safe food supply, apparently we don't have one.
- From The New York Times
Contamination with melamine is especially embarrassing. Pet food that included ingredients made in China laced with melamine sickened thousands of pets and killed an unknown number last year in the United States, and the Chinese government promised at...
- Not Enough
Chinese regulators said today that they had revoked the licenses of three companies that had exported mislabeled drug ingredients and tainted pet food ingredients to the United States and other parts of the world. Well it's about time. The tainted...
- Pet Food Recall ~ Ban Ingredients Of Chinese Origin
After dogs began falling ill and dying as a result of eating the food, Royal Canin SA recalled a number of its products, and stated it would no longer use any ingredients of Chinese origin in their foods. The government of South Africa also stopped imports...
- Pet Food Recall ~china Says Don't Blame Us For Killing Your Pets
The New York Times is reporting in Thursday's paper that China has urged the United States not to take punitive action against the country's exporters of agricultural goods even though the government found that two Chinese companies intentionally...
- Has The Wheat Gluten Gotten Into The Human Food Supply?
Has the wheat gluten gotten into the HUMAN food supply? Check out the post at PetConnection, links are provided to the USA Today article. Wheat gluten in wet pet foods is largely used as a binding agent. In dry foods, it's used as a cheap source of...