Excerpts from an April 9, 2007, Wenhui Daily article shed light on the spin the Chinese official media put on last year’s food safety reporting by US media outlets, translated by CDT: The newest development in the pet food...
After the poisoned dumplings, pet food from China rings a bell, too. From AP via Newser: Two Chinese businesses and a U.S. company were indicted Wednesday in the tainted pet food incidents that killed dozens of animals last year...
Finally, Chinese government spills the truth about pet food scandal. From Wall Street Journal (photo via cnad.com): Across Asia, small-scale food manufacturers and street vendors often boost profits by using cheap but toxic chemicals as sweeteners, dyes and preservatives. While the most egregious examples generally involve food for local consumption, dangerous additives occasionally end up […]
From the IHT, an update on the contaminated pet food story: Mao Lijun, head of the Xuzhou Anying Biologic Technology Development, is being held in coastal Jiangsu Province, about 500 kilometers, or 310 miles, northwest of Shanghai, although a police spokesman in Pei County declined to say on what charges. In a telephone interview a […]
Dr. John Moffett is an active research neuroscientist in the Washington, DC area, who has published articles on the nervous and immune systems. He wrote on OPEDNews.com: …… what exactly is causing the recent spate of pet illnesses and deaths? As a scientist I must initially conclude that there is not enough data to come […]
From Reuters, via Boston Globe: Melamine is so popular as a protein lookalike feed additive that at least one Chinese manufacturer is believed to have torn down buildings to get to leftover scraps, industry officials said on Monday. Melamine, used in making plastic and fertilizers, was blamed for killing pets in the United States and […]
The New York Times takes a closer look at the pet food scandal: As American food safety regulators head to China to investigate how a chemical made from coal found its way into pet food that killed dogs and cats in the United States, workers in this heavily polluted northern city openly admit that the […]
From USA Today: Chinese authorities acknowledged for the first time that ingredients exported to make pet food contained a prohibited chemical, stepping up their probe of two Chinese companies’ roles in one of the USA’s largest animal-food recalls. While pledging cooperation with U.S. authorities investigating the recall, the Chinese government in a statement Thursday also […]
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