Just FYI- Del Monte has said that the contaminated ingredient(s) were used in human grade food as well

I GOT THIS FROM THE YAHOO GROUP...

From: "~ Leonard ~"
Sent: Monday, April 02, 2007 8:29 PM
PLEASE ALL TAKE NOTICE

Just in today...



NEWS
THE GLUTEN STORY, PART 1
by Robert Jay Russell, Ph.D., President, Coton de Tulear Club of America
CotonNews@... (@aol.com)
www.CotonClub.com

April 2nd, 2007.

As you know, I've been publishing many warnings about wheat gluten in dog and
human foods since this pet poisoning crises burst on the scene. I have also
been sharply critical of our government's inaction, and their obvious protection
of guilty corporate parties. A story released by Elise Weise and Julie Schmit
yesterday ("Pet Foods Recall Spreads, and So Does Confusion, " USA Today, 4/1/07)
affirms much in my previous reports.

Weise and Schmit report that:
The FDA has not publicly identified the firm that supplied the contaminated
wheat gluten to the USA. But on Friday, the agency issued an import alert "
found on its website" saying wheat gluten from the Xuzhou Anying Biologic
Technology Development Co. of Peixian, China, could be detained without
inspection until it produced results from "the firm's investigation(s) into the
problem of melamine contamination" and documents showing that corrective action
had been taken.

Dr. Russell continues:

Let's examine that shocking news:

(1) The FDA -- an agency we the taxpayer pays for -- will not tell us where the
wheat gluten poisoning the US food supply is coming from, and;
(2) The FDA will rely on the Chinese company that made and sold the poisoned
wheat gluten to tell us that it's product is safe and we can all eat it.

As it happens, I was grabbing information off the net about the Xuzhou Anying
Biologic Technology Development Co. of Peixian, China, about a week ago and
found that they export wheat gluten to both human food and pet food makers. They
do not, in their commodities sales literature, classify this gluten -- which
they market as "Wheat Vital Protein" -- as specifically for pets only. Here is
their product statement (it's in broken English, to be sure, but I appreciate
their effort since my Chinese would be impossible):
Wheat gluten meal is also named wheat vital protein. The flour is used as its
raw material, and from which extracts a light brown natural Grain powder through
intensively processing. It is a good solubles protein, containing fifteen amino
acid essencial for human body. After all, it can yet be regarded as a plant
protein food looking good, smelling good and tasting good.

Qualification:
Protein: 75% min
Moistur: 8% max
Ash (lime) : 1% max
The rate of absorbing water: 160% min
The degree of thickness: 99% through 200um tough silk sieve
Taste smell: normal, with grain delicious
Outward ap: light yellow powder

The product description is innocuous, but additional referencing elsewhere on
the web has lead me to hypothe<myspace>size</myspace> that an as yet undisclosed Chinese
experimental gluten additive may have been added to this export gluten product
as early as last summer (July, 2006 or even earlier) and that this additive, if
I am correct, could have produced the diverse findings of byproducts such as the
plastic melamine (which the FDA says may have been represented a whopping and
very visible 6% of the total Chinese gluten package!) and the compound
aminopterin (which Cornell labs state unequivocally is present in their samples
today). At present, the etiology of kidney disease caused by either of these
two compounds is vaguely understood at best, although both are known to be
nephrotoxic under proper conditions. If my hypothesis is correct, another
compound altogether, which is definitely causative of acute renal tubule failure
and which is a newly announced Chinese wheat gluten additive,
is at fault and the previously discovered compounds are secondary and
contributory.

Further, if I am correct, other Chinese gluten producers may be using this
additive and supplying markets other than those already identified in the pet
poisoning debacle. Stay tuned.

As soon as I work out the biochemistry on this, I'll write an article here and
contact Cornell. I think its a lead worth looking into. Hopefully their
collective, extremely intelligent heads will beat me to the punch on this. But
even if I am dead wrong about the causative molecule, these observations stand
today:

1. The human food supply subject to wheat gluten is suspect.
Bread, pizza dough, candy, crackers, pasta, cereal and so much more may contain
suspect Chinese wheat gluten;

2. The US pet food industry gets 80% of its wheat glutens from China. No pet
food, dry or wet or treats, can be considered in any way safe if it contains
wheat gluten. Period;

3. The date which toxic wheat gluten was first used in US food products (human
or pet) is NOT KNOWN. Only Menu foods has stated tangentially that it "changed
gluten suppliers
in November" and that the tainted Chinese gluten was used in its food from that
time onwards. None of the other companies who have been outed (Purina and
Delmonte to date) have stated when Chinese gluten first appeared in their
products.

4. There is a possibility that is not denied by the FDA that a great many of
America's pets are now suffering progressive assymptomatic kidney disease. There
is also a possibility that many people are in that same boat, albeit with an
absolutely larger kidney festooned with geometrically more tubules, they could
remain assymptomatic for quite a bit longer than either Fido or Fluffy.

From the onset, I have urged everyone to avoid wheat and wheat gluten in their
pet's diet. I would also suggest that this is an excellent time for the bipeds
in your household to start a wheat gluten-free dietary program. I know that that
is difficult, and that gluten, which was never good for us, sure makes so many
things taste good. But look at it this way: none of us want to compete for donor
kidneys down the road. And our poor pets don't even get kidney transplants, they
just sicken and die painfully.
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(c)2007 Dr. R. J. Russell & the CTCA



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I guess the recent news shows it most certainly is in the human food!
I’ve known this for years now!
Nestle owns Purina, which makes pet food, and Nestle also makes human food. Why would they get their wheat gluten from different sources?
Canada buys wheat gluten from china and American companies do business getting the stuff via Canada, so the China link is indirect.
I ate some macaroni an cheese from Stouffer’s (nestle) around the time my cat got sick, and I was soooooo sick, it was reminiscent of my cat’s illness... so I read the ingredients on the macaroni box, what was the main ingredient?? WHEAT GLUTEN. I called the fda, but they probably ended up doing nothing.
So, kids, when the largest poisoner of pets also makes human food, don’t think for a second it isn’t in your food.