http://news.vin.com/VINNews.aspx?articleId=17298 This will affect the manufacturers whose foods that contained melamine back in 2007 when so many animal animals died from that: places like Purina, Blue Buffalo, Hill's, Iams, Walmart and more. The full list can be found at <http://www.fda.gov/AnimalVeterinary/SafetyHealth/RecallsWithdrawals/ucm129575.htm> http://www.accessdata.fda.gov/scripts/petfoodrecall/index.cfm >The pet food scandal was caused by unscrupulous suppliers in China who >spiked wheat gluten and rice protein with nitrogen-rich melamine in an >attempt to boost the products' apparent protein levels. > >Melamine is an industrial chemical not approved for consumption. If >ingested, it can combine with the chemical byproduct cyanuric acid >to form crystals in the kidneys, causing potentially fatal renal >blockage. Here is the Animal and Veterinary section of the FDA: http://www.fda.gov/AnimalVeterinary/default.htm and general pet food recall info can be found in http://www.accessdata.fda.gov/scripts/newpetfoodrecalls/ even by searching on brand also remember these resources for pet welfare news, and for areas where the agencies do not overlap: http://www.fsis.usda.gov/News_&_Events/2008_news_releases/index.asp http://www.aphis.usda.gov/animal_welfare/ and remember that it is only very recently (not long ago this very year) that there has been the power to IMPOSE recalls; before they could only be REQUESTED. Anyway, I recall people here who lost ferrets and other pets from melamine who may be interested in the settlement going through related to their 2007 heartbreak. Sukie (not a vet) Recommended ferret health links: http://pets.groups.yahoo.com/group/ferrethealth/ http://ferrethealth.org/archive/ http://www.afip.org/ferrets/index.html http://www.miamiferret.org/ http://www.ferrethealth.msu.edu/ http://www.ferretcongress.org/ http://www.trifl.org/index.shtml http://homepage.mac.com/sukie/sukiesferretlinks.html all ferret topics: http://listserv.ferretmailinglist.org/archives/ferret-search.html "All hail the procrastinators for they shall rule the world tomorrow." (2010, Steve Crandall) On change for its own sake: "You can go really fast if you just jump off the cliff." (2010, Steve Crandall) [Posted in FML 6926]
