WASHINGTON (AP) - The same industrial chemical that led to a massive pet
food recall was used by a U.S. manufacturer of ingredients for feeding
livestock, fish and shrimp, 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 food
ingredient. The pet food recall was a result of melamine-contaminated
wheat gluten made in China.
Melamine is not approved as an additive for the feed. Officials said the
use of the chemical in animal feed posed no threat to human health.
Officials said the melamine and related compounds were used to bind feed
pellets for cattle, sheep and goats, or fish and shrimp.
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.
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