http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/04/29/AR2007042901121_pf.htmlIn a joint statement, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) stressed, "We are not aware of any human illness that has occurred from exposure to melamine or its by-products." They added that they have identified no illnesses in swine fed the contaminated feed.
The USDA first announced on Thursday that meat from 345 hogs suspected of eating the contaminated feed had entered the U.S. food supply. Some 6,000 hogs suspected of eating the contaminated product have since been quarantined and meat from these animals would be withheld from the food supply, both agencies said.
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"Today we notified eight states that adulterated swine products will not be approved to enter the food supply," Capt. David Elder, director of the FDA's Office of Enforcement Office of Regulatory Affairs, said during a Thursday afternoon teleconference.
According to theAP, potentially contaminated pet food scraps may also have found their way to a poultry feed mill in Missouri. That case remains under investigation.
I ask if they are looking for sick humans because no articles have mentioned them examining those who ate the contaminated feed. Taking blood and urin from hogs YES. Testing humans - no. Also consider how California officals advised people who ate suspect pork to NOT go to the doctors:
http://www.sacbee.com/101/story/158956.htmlDr. Kevin Reilly, deputy director of preventive services for the California Department of Health Services, said scientists are having to design tests as they go because so little is known about how melamine affects people. The chemical has caused tumors in rats and is not considered safe for animal foods.
About 100 private customers bought hogs killed and packaged by American Hog Farm during the time they were fed the tainted pet food. The butchered pork was intended for private use and stamped as unavailable for resale, said Dr. Richard Breitmeyer, the state veterinarian. State officials were using farm records to contact those individuals and tell them not to eat the pork.
Reilly said that the risk to humans is considered minimal and that the customers are not being told to seek medical treatment