From The Associated Press, 5/16/07:
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/05/16/business/16food.html?ex=1336968000&en=b6dc11964157a7db&ei=5088&partner=rssnyt&emc=rss
Tainted-Feed Pigs Cleared
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
WASHINGTON, May 15 (AP) —
Roughly 56,000 pigs that were fed contaminated pet food scraps are
safe to be eaten, the Agriculture Department said Tuesday.
The decision permits the pigs to be slaughtered for human consumption.
They had been held off the market in seven states: California,
Illinois, Kansas, New York, North Carolina, South Carolina and Utah.
The pigs’ feed included scraps from pet food made using an imported
Chinese ingredient later found to have been tainted by the industrial
chemical melamine and related compounds.
While those chemicals proved lethal to an unknown number of dogs and
cats fed tainted pet food, the contaminants were diluted enough when
mixed into farm animal feed that they posed no risk to pigs or the
people who eat them.
About 80,000 birds fed contaminated feed at poultry farms are still
held off the market in Indiana.
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uh huh
Harry
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