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last update:6 Aug 2012
Melamine scare
On March 17, 2007 Menu Foods, Inc. a major manufacturer of dog and cat food
in North
America recalled 60 million containers of wet food
after it received reports of pets suffering
kidney failure.
Since then, the company has expanded its recall and several other companies also have voluntarily withdrawn products from the market.
Initial reports in March reported the death of about 10 animals after consuming the infected pet food, supplied to Wal-Mart, Safeway, Kroger, PetSmart and other retailers. The food that has been specifically targeted for recall was sold between Dec. 3 and March 6 throughout the US, Canada and Mexico.
After a major investigation it was shown that
wheat gluten contaminated with melamine from Chinese producers was the cause of this major pet food contamination. Later, the melamine was
also found in pig feed. The farmer has used salvage (contaminated) pet food to feed the pigs.
Indiction
As a result of FDA and USDA's comprehensive investigation, on February 6, 2008, FDA announced that two Chinese nationals and the businesses they operate, along with a U.S. company and its president and chief executive officer, were indicted by a federal grand jury for their roles in a scheme to import products purported to be wheat gluten into the United States that were contaminated with melamine.
Not only the Chinese companies were punished, through the whole incident, Menu Foods
lost its major client; Wal-Mart.
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