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作者：秃公 在 罕见奇谈 发贴, 来自 http://www.hjclub.org
怪不的WHAET GLUTEN的第三供应商没公布。
看来美国的鱼虾也不能多吃了：
本报记者吴越华盛顿5月30日报道】食品和药物管理局（FDA）30日宣布，检查人员在美国制造的动物饲料成分中也发现了有害化学物质三聚氰氨，在此之前，含有三聚氰氨的宠物饲料一直被认为只进口自中国。
在30日下午举行的电话会议中，FDA主管食品安全的副局长阿奇森表示，FDA正在招回由两个公司生产的饲料成分，因为调查人员在成分中发现了三聚氰氨。和过去的发现不同的是，制造这些饲料的公司是两家美国公司，一家是位于俄亥俄州的Tembce of Toledo公司，另一家是位于科罗拉多州的Uniscope Inc。调查人员发现，这两家公司生产的几种作为饲料成分的产品中含有三聚氰氨和三聚氰氨有关的化合物。
阿奇森说，此次招回的产品和之前宠物饲料没有直接关系，相同的仅是在宠物饲料中和这次的动物饲料中发现的有害物质都是三聚氰氨。阿奇森说，FDA已经警告家畜、鱼类以及虾类饲料的制造商自动招回由这两家美国公司生产的饲料成分，因为FDA目前尚不能确定究竟有多少饲料有问题。
三聚氰氨最先被认为是由中国的生产厂家加入到麦麸（wheat gluten）中，目的是为了提高蛋白质的含量。加入这一有害物质的麦麸被加拿大某宠物饲料制造商使用，饲料成品再出口到美国，结果造成大量猫狗中毒死亡事件；此后，FDA又在猪、鸡以及鱼饲料成分中相继发现这一有害物质,并查出含有三聚氰氨的不是原先认为的麦麸，而是小麦粉（wheat flour）。
与此同时，FDA加强了可能含有三聚氰氨进口商品的检验，国会也举行听证会要求严查中国的相关进口商品。有关中国饲料成分含有有毒物质的各种报道一时间更是甚嚣尘上。
三聚氰氨未获准可作为食品的添加剂，但它具有不少工业用途，包括制造粘合剂和阻燃剂。在美国以外的其他国家，三聚氰氨有时也会被用作肥料。FDA的官员宣称，由于“稀释作用”，食用了含有三聚氰氨饲料的猪和家禽不会出现中毒现象、食用了有毒饲料的猪和家禽产出的肉的人也不会有中毒的危险。http://www.chinapressusa.com/yaowen/200705310099.htm
Problem Pet Food Ingredient in US Feed
By KEVIN FREKING 05.30.07, 7:04 PM ET
The same industrial chemical that led to a massive pet food recall was used in animal feed ingredients made by a U.S. company, health officials said Wednesday.
The announcement by the Food and Drug Administration was the first indication that a U.S. company had used melamine as an animal feed ingredient. Agency officials said that melamine and related compounds were used to bind feed for cattle, sheep and goats, or fish and shrimp.
Previously, the problem of melamine in animal feed was thought to be contained to China, where manufacturers had added it to wheat gluten.
Melamine is not approved as an additive for the feed. It has a number of industrial uses, including as a binding agent and flame retardant. It's also used as fertilizer in some parts of the world, but not in the U.S.
U.S. officials said the use of melamine in animal feed posed no threat to human health. In China, they said, the chemical was probably added to show greater levels of protein.
The FDA alerted feed manufacturers that ingredients containing melamine and related compounds were found in products made by Tembec BTLSR Inc. of Toledo, Ohio, and used by Uniscope Inc. of Johnstown, Colo.
Tembec makes two products, AquaBond and Aqua-Tec II, which it distributes for Uniscope. The products are used in fish feed.
Uniscope also makes a product for livestock feed called Xtra-Bond, and it uses ingredients produced by Tembec. The FDA advised feed manufacturers and others not to use the products and to contact the two manufacturers.
The agency also advised manufacturers to recall feed made from AquaBond or AquaTech II. Official did not make the same recommendation for feed made from Xtra-Bond, based on the low levels of melamine and related compounds.
Officials said they had no idea how much feed contains the ingredients in question.
The FDA learned on March 15 that certain pet foods were sickening and killing cats and dogs. The agency found contaminants in vegetable proteins imported from China. The discovery prompted thousands of news stories, some congressional hearings and much scrutiny of China's manufacturing processes.
FDA officials said Uniscope contacted the agency about two weeks ago. The officials could not say how long Tembec had used melamine in the manufacturing process.
"All I can tell you is that this came to our attention on May 18 when Uniscope let us know what they found, and we followed that up," Acheson said. "What Tembec knew, didn't know, and what their activities were is part of the investigation."
Uniscope officials did not immediately return calls seeking comment. John Valley, an executive vice president at Tembec, said melamine was an element in the product made for Uniscope.
"That binder in turn is a small component of the overall fish pellets. It's a minor part of a minor part, if you will, so the concentrations are very low," Valley said.
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http://www.forbes.com/feeds/ap/2007/05/30/ap3772244.html
作者：秃公 在 罕见奇谈 发贴, 来自 http://www.hjclub.org |
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誰学誰？美国公司也在动物饲料加三聚氰氨，FDA說。
