Post by kandice on Mar 30, 2007 11:19:54 GMT -5
In case you haven't heard, Get the Word Out.
FDA JUST ANNOUNCED THE POISON MAY BE IN SOME DRY FOOD, ALSO! JUST LIKE WE THOUGHT! THEY ARE NOT TELLING US WHICH DRY FOOD IS AFFECTED! READ BELOW.
WWW.PETCONNECTION.COM IS POSTING THE LATEST NEWS DEVELOPMENTS ON THEIR BLOG FOUND ON THEIR WEBSITE.
In an FDA press conference this morning, it was announced that melamine, not the rat poison amimopterin, was found in the samples of food involved in the recall, and that some of the contaminated wheat gluten had been sold to another pet food manufacturer, one who, unlike Menu, does make dry food as well as wet.
One reporter asked the FDA’s Dr. Stephen Sundlof if people could be feeding unsafe food to their pets right now, because the FDA isn’t revealing the name of that company.
The response? “It is possible, but I think we’ve been following every lead that we can. My sense is that we have gotten most of it under control.”
As soon as we have any information, he assured reporters at a press conference this morning, we’ll notify the public. Except for the name of the company, it seems.
How about the numbers? asked another attendee. You’re still saying only 15 confirmed deaths, but some reports are in the thousands. How do you explain the discrepancy?
Dr. Sundlof said FDA can’t confirm any cases beyond those first few in Menu’s test labs, even though they have received over 8800 additional reports, because “We have not had the luxury of confirming these reports.” They’ll work on that, he said, after they “make sure all the product is off the shelves.”
He pointed out that in human medicine, the job of defining what constitutes a confirmed case would fall to the Centers for Disease Control, not the FDA… and there is no CDC for animals.
More to come.
SPREAD THE WORD!!
FDA JUST ANNOUNCED THE POISON MAY BE IN SOME DRY FOOD, ALSO! JUST LIKE WE THOUGHT! THEY ARE NOT TELLING US WHICH DRY FOOD IS AFFECTED! READ BELOW.
WWW.PETCONNECTION.COM IS POSTING THE LATEST NEWS DEVELOPMENTS ON THEIR BLOG FOUND ON THEIR WEBSITE.
In an FDA press conference this morning, it was announced that melamine, not the rat poison amimopterin, was found in the samples of food involved in the recall, and that some of the contaminated wheat gluten had been sold to another pet food manufacturer, one who, unlike Menu, does make dry food as well as wet.
One reporter asked the FDA’s Dr. Stephen Sundlof if people could be feeding unsafe food to their pets right now, because the FDA isn’t revealing the name of that company.
The response? “It is possible, but I think we’ve been following every lead that we can. My sense is that we have gotten most of it under control.”
As soon as we have any information, he assured reporters at a press conference this morning, we’ll notify the public. Except for the name of the company, it seems.
How about the numbers? asked another attendee. You’re still saying only 15 confirmed deaths, but some reports are in the thousands. How do you explain the discrepancy?
Dr. Sundlof said FDA can’t confirm any cases beyond those first few in Menu’s test labs, even though they have received over 8800 additional reports, because “We have not had the luxury of confirming these reports.” They’ll work on that, he said, after they “make sure all the product is off the shelves.”
He pointed out that in human medicine, the job of defining what constitutes a confirmed case would fall to the Centers for Disease Control, not the FDA… and there is no CDC for animals.
More to come.
SPREAD THE WORD!!