sue.t
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another update to CBC's story
Human food supply free of contaminated wheat gluten: Importer
Last Updated: Tuesday, April 3, 2007 | 4:09 PM ET
CBC News
The contaminated wheat gluten that prompted an extensive recall of pet food was not used in food for humans, the ingredient's importer confirmed on Tuesday.
Stephen Miller, ChemNutra Inc.'s chief executive officer, said his company distributed the wheat gluten only to pet food companies. He declined to identify the companies who purchased the wheat gluten.
Complete update at
http://www.cbc.ca/consumer/story/2007/04/03/pet-food.html?ref=rss
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Thanks Kathie, she's hanging in there. I think she's afraid to let go and let her brother get all the fresh chicken and tuna. Meanwhile, she's staring out the window, happy.
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JTMO wrote:Thanks Kathie, she's hanging in there. I think she's afraid to let go and let her brother get all the fresh chicken and tuna. Meanwhile, she's staring out the window, happy.
This is so sad, but better than letting her die in a metal cage in a vet's office. I've read that cats hypnotize themselves when they are in pain and I hope that's true. I wish her a peaceful passage to the Rainbow Bridge, if she must leave. ![[emoticon]](http://www.coastresorts.com/sharedcontent/cfb/images/frown.gif "frown")
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My heart goes out to you and your family. God Bless little Luna may she pass away peacefully. Hugs from Nova Scotia
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So sorry to hear about Luna. My thoughts and prayers to you and your family from Capo. Beach.
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She's still here, she may just prove the vet wrong yet, and beat this food poisoning yet....
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Did anybody else see the report on Anderson Cooper's show on CNN? They said that some poisoned pets had been saved by their vet, sent home to grateful owners just to be fed more of the food that was the culprit in the first place. OMG, how ironic! This was before the recall, of course. I'm so glad Luna is still among us, and hope she will be one of the lucky ones.
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Our cat Sassy passed away 1 week ago yesterday. She was 17.5 years old and had been diagnosed with failing kidneys several years ago. This is common for older cats. She had been fed brands of cat food that were recalled. I have no way of knowing if they were the recalled dates as the packaging had been thrown out in the garbage. Since the recall announcement we did not feed her any of the recalled brands.
I of coarse do not know if the death was food related, but it could have been. I filed a comment on the FDA site today. It may not help but as Americans it is our duty to support the FDA people. I told them that they need to fight hard on this as today it is pet food and tomorrow it could be our food! Remember they are people just like us and probably have pets also.
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So sorry Vern. We all know the feelings we get with the loss, but right now you get the added uncertainty about the food. We run into the same problem when we get cases of kidney failure now. We've have 4-6 cases since early February that were or could have been food related. We've just about as positive as can be that two were (I actually have in my possession a can of recalled food). The other 4 are suspicious enough that I believe they are.
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Dr Doug, does it seem that just one meal of the recalled food can put a cat or dog in the hospital or is it cumulative? Have you had more incidents involving cats than dogs?
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