[litbrit wonders why this isn't front-page news...yet.]
I've been following the pet food poisoning story for a while, and with the advent of last week's revelation that not only wheat gluten, but also corn gluten and rice protein concentrate--all imported from China, all used in pet food, animal feed, and human food--had tested positive for melamine and may have been introduced into the human food supply, I knew it was only a matter of time before this happened: melamine has indeed been detected in the feed and body fluids of pigs meant for human consumption, and California authorities have issued both a quarantine and an advisory to not consume pork from at least one farm (along with weak assurances that eating pork tainted with the industrial chemical poses only "minimal" health risks); others may follow, since the tainted feed was also shipped to New York.
Ahazardous chemical believed to have killed scores of pets nationwidehas been found in California and New York hog farms, raising concernsfor the first time that it could have been consumed by humans.
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California authorities have quarantined American Hog Farm, in Ceres south of Sacramento, after melamine was detected in a least seven urine samples and three samples of the animal's food, news report said.
California officials and are trying to trace what happened to slaughtered animals.
