They are recalling chicken food...
chickens feed
were and what?
Whoa!!!! Where did you hear that Tracey??? Tell us more!!!
I just googled it and its true
but they are not naming brands
just that some poultry farms had tested positive for the stuff
they are worried cause they are large poultry farms ....birds are for human consumption
They haven't recalled any feed but are barring 20 million chickens from sale because they may have eaten tainted feed. According to this story, they were fed pet food that was tainted.
http://www.reuters.com/article/topNews/idUSWAT00743720070505
google it and all chicken feed that came from china is being recalled...
The story is at the link I posted. NO chicken feed is being recalled. The problem was apparently from pet food mixed with the feed.
Here's the AP story, a little longer than the Reuters story posted above/
http://www.suntimes.com/news/nation/372362,chicken050507.article
Eu, and others,
It is true that they are calling chicken feed back
thier was some thing to do with china and they say chickens are dieing and it will hart other chickens and make them very sick...
and I toke mine back to the feed store and they gave me bird seed for now and told me that when it is safe for chicken feed to come back he will give me a dicecount on it...
Tracey
I haven't been able to find a link saying which chicken feed products are being recalled Tracey. Which brand did you take back to the feedstore ??
I bought feed Saturday at the feedstore and didn't see anything posted there about a problem. But I was buying gamebird starter.......
~Julie
I bought feed on Monday and they had no clue
still can't find brands being recalled
no birds dying..........everyone looks happy and healthy
[www.google]This will show you...Type in chicken feed recall
first one click on it...
Tracey
Tracey, that's from nine years ago. I did a Google news search twice - there is no feed recall.
Hart, my mother inlaw saw it on the news 4 days ago...
The chickens that were being held have now been released and are probably at our stores now
the feed was fed to them in Febuary
and now its in fish food..........
will it ever end?????
Pet Food Recall Spreads To Fish, FDA Says Ingredients Mislabeled
Posted on Tuesday, 8 of May , 2007 at 8:32 pm
The pet and human food contamination scandal widened Tuesday as federal agencies announced that now the nation’s fish supply has been compromised due to contaminated feed having been fed to farm fish.
Additionally, federal officials said it’s wheat flour, not wheat gluten and rice protein concentrate, that is at the heart of the massive pet food recall after the death and illness of thousands of cats and dogs from kidney failure.
At a press conference held Tuesday, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration and the U.S. Agriculture Department announced that wheat flour, mislabeled as wheat gluten and rice protein concentrate, is actually the melamine-contaminated ingredient that has been the focus of a massive pet food recall, not wheat gluten or rice protein concentrate as previously believed and told the American public.
Levels of melamine in meat products from animals given contaminated feed are very low and pose little risk to humans if eaten, officials reiterated. None of these ingredients has been used in the human food supply.
The officials said that a portion of the mislabeled wheat gluten has been used in the preparation of fish feeds and has been used in some U.S. aquaculture production operations. Officials stated that levels of melamine in affected fish tested so far have been comparable to those found in hogs and chickens.
A transcript of the conference can be found at http://www.usda.gov/wps/portal/!ut/p/_s.7_0_A/7_0_1OB?contentidonly=true&contentid=2007/05/0134.xml
Dr. David Acheson, assistant commissioner for food protection with the FDA, said that they had learned that a portion of the mislabeled wheat gluten from Chinese manufacturers had been sent to Canada and when in Canada, was used to manufacture fishmeal. Acheson said that fishmeal was then imported back into the United States for use in feeding fish in certain industrial aquaculture type situations.
The ingredients came from two Chinese firms: Xuzhou Anying Biologic Technology Development Co. and Futian Biology Technology Co. Ltd.
In essence, Acheson appeared to be shifting the blame from the United States to Canada.
“As with the situation with the poultry and the hogs, the levels that we’re seeing in the fishmeal are very comparable, and therefore based on the risk assessment we do not believe there is any significant human health risk associated with consuming these fish”, Acheson said. “The investigation is very active at this point. We know of a number of firms that received this fishmeal and our investigators are as we speak getting out there to those firms to determine just exactly what they are doing with the fish that were fed this fishmeal”.
“We have so far managed to get to one of these establishments where we confirmed the positive finding, and that particular establishment is dealing with very small fish that are ones that are I believe called fry or small. So these are tiny fish that are not yet ready for human consumption anyway. That is really just the current state of this investigation”.
Farmed fish are usually sold for direct consumption or for stocking lakes and streams.
Initially, FDA said that the Canadian-made meal purportedly contained wheat gluten, a source of protein which Chinese manufacturers allegedly intentionally added to their products in order to make it appear higher in protein than they actually were. Now, U.S. inspectors say that material contaminated with melamine was actually wheat flour.
For nearly two months, since Menu Foods of Canada, a major pet food manufacturer announced that they were recalling nearly 100 brands of pet food believed to be responsible for the deaths and serious illness of dogs and cats by kidney failure, the nation has apprehensively read of increasing recalls of pet food on nearly a daily basis. So far, at least 16 companies have announced recalls.
Menu Foods is currently facing more than 50 lawsuits and have in turned sued ChemNutra who they claim supplied them.
As pet owners were struggling to find something they felt was safe to feed their cats and dogs, the federal government announced that the nation’s pork products were at risk because farmers had fed their pigs the salvaged contaminated pet food, those products which had been found to have been contaminated by melamine, a substance not approved for food in the United States. The food that was suspected of killing cats and dogs was being fed to animals meant for human consumption.
As consumers became more and more wary that the FDA is withholding information about the safety of the nation’s food supply, both for human consumption as well as for pets, the agency created the position of assistant commissioner for food protection “to provide advice and counsel to the commissioner on strategic and substantive food safety and food defense matters”.
After USDA and FDA declared that the nation’s pork supply was safe and there was a minimal risk, they then announced that byproducts from pet food manufactured with contaminated wheat gluten imported from China had been used in chicken feed on some farms in the state of Indiana.
At least 30 broiler poultry farms and eight breeder poultry farms in Indiana received contaminated feed in early February and fed it to poultry within days of receiving it. All of the broilers believed to have been fed contaminated product have since been processed. The breeders that were fed the contaminated product are under voluntary hold by the flock owners, and over the weekend, it was announced that 20 million chickens were on hold. They were released for market on Monday.
Initially, FDA identified the contamination as originating with wheat gluten from just one pet food manufacturer, obtained from one importer from China, ChemNutra but now the contamination has spread to more than a dozen manufacturers of wet and dry pet foods as well as treats, hundreds of foods, and expanded to rice protein concentrate from Wilbur-Ellis.
Melamine, a chemical found in plastics, pesticides and fertilizer, is not approved for use in pet or human food in the United States.
To read the North Country Gazette’s continuing coverage on the pet food recall and contamination of food for human consumption, see the archives at www.northcountrygazette.org 5-08-07