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Your morning Chinese food contamination update: new developments, widening crisis

Posted on 2007.05.01 by winterSmith Leave a comment

UPDATE: – BREAKING: Americans ate 3 million melamine-tainted chickens! In a conference call with media this afternoon, USDA Assistant Administrator Kenneth Petersen revealed that as many as 3 million chickens, contaminated with melamine from a single Indiana feed mill, have already been slaughtered, distributed and eaten. An additional 100,000 breeder chickens are currently being voluntarily quarantined by farmers. Well, great.

World

Melamine story gets worse and worse

Posted on 2007.04.30 by winterSmith 4 comments

The melamine-spiking story continues to build, and so far nothing about it offers any reason for comfort. HorsesAss offers a mortifying blow-by-blow here, and after reading it you have to wonder not whether you have Chinese melamine in your system, but how much. He also points to the curious tone and timing of a joint USDA/FDA release that tries awfully

Politics/Law/Government

Food contamination investigation expands: how trustworthy is the fox guarding the henhouse?

Posted on 2007.04.25 by winterSmith 15 comments

UPDATE: Now the FDA is investigating whether melamine may have gotten into … wait for it … baby food. It started out as a pet food contamination crisis – dozens of dog and cat food brands associated with Menu Foods were recalled because pets were dying. An investigation was launched, and as these things so often go, it just keeps

Politics/Law/Government