- Hello Jeff -- Do we believe the Congress when they promise
to legislate safe food? NOPE. Do we need another government agency to
protect us? NO, just look at the USDA. They say chicken and fish fed the
poisoned pet food China sent us is safe for human consumption. So much
for the pet food recalls...
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- Who knows what nano tech poison is in the mix? If we
don't know what ELSE is in the poison food. How can we test specifically
for poisons if we don't even know what
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- So, eat up all of the chicken, fish and pork - whatever
China sends us - because the USDA says it is 'safe.'
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- This is so disgusting and frustrating. As I said last
night, people need to let the American poultry producers know they won't
buy ANY chicken products. Same for pork and fish. How do we know what
came from China and what is American? We DON'T. A name like Perdu or
Tyson doesn't assure us the meat is from the US only, and totally produced
in the US.
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- Anyone who buys pre-packaged and pre-cooked meat is taking
a big risk with their health. People may have to get together and form
co-ops. I have permission to plant an acre across the road and this weekend
I will begin working on the garden. Like old times for me when I had my
test plot. Tomatoes, some potatoes, beans, spinach, lettuce all edible
because I will grow it. At least I will be sure of my food for a couple
of months, anyway.
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- Disgusting, I simply cannot believe the USDA says this
stuff is safe...and they are sending to China for even MORE poison food
from our good pals, the Chinese. I wonder what George Bush eats? Hope
they serve him up a whopping good helping of Chinese veggies, pork, chicken,
fish and all the other goodies imported from our sworn enemy, China. And
let's not forget to add some 'healthy organic' veggies and fruits from
those 'clean and sanitary' Mexican farms.
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- Oh, and I certainly hope he drinks plenty of our good,
clean tap water -- the water that has at least 9 pharmaceuticals in it
as stated below. So, here in North America, we allow livestock industry
to use plenty of medications on the livestock we eat, and vast amounts
of those meds are ending up in our rivers, streams and lakes...and eventually
coming out of our taps into our glasses and into our bodies. Nice, eh?
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- No wonder all sorts of diseases and infectious auto immune
disorders are showing up in people. As I've stated many times, I think
our parents generation is the very last generation that will experience
longevity. It is obvious our children and grandchildren are doomed to
often tragically-shortened lives because of the pollution, saturation medication
of livestock and of humans, out of control superbugs, over-vaccination,
genetically-modifying our crops and fruits, the poisoning of the environment,
loss of the rain forests, and on and on.
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- The time is past when we will hear of people living to
104, 105, etc. A 'normal' 50 year life span my be our grandchildren's
future. How can they live a long healthy life when the food supply is
rotten, the air is toxic with heavy metals, etc, and our water is polluted
with a multitude of poisons and pharmaceuticals.
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- Oh, and I like the way they say no DETECTABLE melamine
was found in fish in the US. What are the benchmarks of their 'testing'? Sounds
like double talk to me.
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- There is obviously not much this administration won't
do for our friends in Communist China.
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- Patty
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- USDA Releases Poultry For Processing
- United States Department of Agriculture
- 5-18-7
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- WASHINGTON -- Testing confirms
that meat from poultry fed rations supplemented with pet food scraps containing
melamine and related compounds is safe for human consumption. Based on
the validated test results, the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) will
allow approximately 80,000 birds held on farms in Indiana to be released
and approved for processing.
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- Testing of meat from poultry exposed to the feed in question
confirms that melamine does not accumulate in birds and is eliminated by
the body quickly. The testing also reinforces the conclusions of a human
health risk assessment that there is a very low risk of illness from the
consumption of meat from animals exposed to the feed in question. Poultry
held on farms appear healthy, which will be confirmed upon the rigorous
inspection that USDA's Food Safety Inspection Service conducts on all poultry
during processing.
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- The risk assessment concludes that in the most extreme
risk assessment scenario, when scientists assumed that all the solid food
a person consumes in an entire day contained melamine and the melamine
compound cyanuric acid at levels potentially present in the poultry meat,
the potential exposure is about 250 times lower than the dose considered
safe. Translated to consumption levels, this means that a person weighing
132 pounds would have to eat more than 800 pounds per day of chicken or
other food containing melamine and its compounds to approach a level of
consumption that would cause a health concern.
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- USDA and US Food and Drug Administration continue to
conduct a full and comprehensive investigation. As additional information
is confirmed, updates will be provided and decisions will be made using
the best available science to protect the public's health.
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- http://www.usda.gov/wps/portal/usdahome?contentidonly=true&contentid=2007/05/0147.xml
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- No Melamine Found In Fish From Two Commercial
Farms In The US
- By David Brown
- Washington Post
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- Federal officials were quoted yesterday as saying that
tests found no detectable melamine in the flesh of fish that ate feed adulterated
with the chemical at two commercial fish farms in the United States. The
fish was cleared for human consumption.
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- Although 198 hatcheries received potentially contaminated
feed from a Canadian supplier, only two -- Kona Blue of Hawaii and American
Gold Seafoods of Seattle -- sell fish for human consumption. The Hawaiian
company raises tropical amberjack, much of it for sushi, and the Seattle
company produces Atlantic salmon.
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- The story goes on to say that the FDA has also impounded
all "vegetable protein concentrate" imported from China since
April 27, a total of 46 shipments.
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- http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/
article/2007/05/17/AR2007051702075.html
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- Drugs Used To Treat Animals Show Up In Streams
- By Sarah O'Donnell
- Edmonton Journal
- 5-17-7
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- EDMONTON -- Small quantities
of pharmaceuticals used by the livestock industry are, according to this
story, making their way into streams in agricultural areas.
- A study conducted by Alberta Agriculture and Food study
investigated water sampled from 22 streams across the province, testing
those samples for more than two dozen compounds administered to cows, swine,
chickens and turkeys for everything from disease treatment to growth promotion.
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- Trace amounts of nine drugs were found in 17 streams.
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- James Wuite, head of Alberta Agriculture's water management
section was cited as saying "It shows that, yes, some of these things
are making it to surface water. By and large, they're in quantities that
we don't believe to be toxic, although there's another gap here in terms
of the toxicology side of a number of these things."
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- Battersea Drain, northeast of Lethbridge, had the highest
number of compounds detected, with four different products showing up in
the water, and had the most compounds detected over the six-month testing
period.
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- While some compounds were found in 17 streams, Wuite
went on to say that the department sees the results as good news. "The
nine we detected were at very low levels, just barely above the detection
capacity of the lab methods, in the parts per trillion range."
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- The story goes on to say that the study also has raised
plenty of questions. For example, why are these nine compounds, particularly
Monensin (used in disease prevention and growth promotion), detected more
frequently that other products? And how exactly do they get into the water?
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- The study also offers advice to farmers about how to
reduce the presence of pharmaceuticals.
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- Patricia A. Doyle DVM, PhD
- Bus Admin, Tropical Agricultural Economics
- Univ of West Indies
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- Please visit my "Emerging Diseases" message
board at:
- http://www.emergingdisease.org/phpbb/index.php
- Also my new website:
- http://drpdoyle.tripod.com/
- Zhan le Devlesa tai sastimasa
- Go with God and in Good Health
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