Tainted poultry has entered food supply
 

Tainted poultry has entered food supply
Millions of chickens ate feed containing melamine, government officials say
NBC News and news services
Updated: 8:04 p.m. ET May 1, 2007
WASHINGTON - The Food and Drug Adminstration said Tuesday that as many as 3 million chickens that may have been given contaminated feed containing melamine have already been eaten by consumers, according to NBC News.

Although the chickens, which came from 38 poultry farms in Indiana, have already made their way into the food supply, there appears to be minimal or no health risk to humans, the government said.

The Agriculture Department and the FDA said in a joint statement Monday that officials learned of the link between the chicken feed and tainted pet food as part of the investigation into imported rice protein concentrate and wheat gluten that have been found to contain the industrial chemical melamine and related compounds.

The affected poultry farms and breeder poultry farms fed the contaminated feed to poultry within days of receiving it, the agencies said. Other farms will probably be identified as having received tainted feed, they added.

All the broilers believed to have been fed contaminated products have been processed, while the breeders are under voluntary hold by flock owners, the agencies said. The farms were given the contaminated feed in early February.

Birds that were given the contaminated feed will not be allowed to enter the U.S. food supply. Farmers will be compensated if they destroy the birds that consume the feed.

The agencies also said there was a “low-risk” to humans and no food recalls were expected at this time. They are uncertain how many chickens were involved, how many entered the food supply or where they went.

“We haven’t completed counting yet,” said USDA spokesman Keith Williams.

Pet food tainted with melamine was also found in feed given to hogs. Last week, the USDA said about 6,000 hogs in six states — California, Kansas, New York, North Carolina, South Carolina and Utah — may have been given the contaminated feed. On Saturday, the agencies cited similar reasons for not issuing a recall.

More than 100 brands of pet food have been recalled since March 16 because they were contaminated with melamine. An unknown number of dogs and cats have been sickened or died after eating chemical-laced pet food.


© 2007 MSNBC InteractiveNBC’s Tom Costello, The Associated Press and Reuters contributed to this report
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Little known fact:

Before WWII, few northern whites ate chicken. It was considered dirty meat. However, druing WWII, chicken was not rationed (some say as a politcal favor) and was widely available while other meats were not. It was only then that eating chicken became common among whites in the north.

Weird. Interesting, but weird.

By the way, I don't know why that lady was "rejected" but I don't think it was her bangs. What is that all about anyway?

Maybe she has bad breath. That's always a turn off.

She looks Norwegian. Maybe she's eating that salted cod stuff?

Just great. I eat a lot of chicken.

I was thinking about KFC tonight. Damn! ;D

Now that they've got the cats & dogs protected, maybe we should just eat them.


























just kidding. just kidding. :flush:

Guess I want be having chinese tonight now either ;D

this isnt shocking , Chickens are a very dirty animal , and worse then vultures .Chickens will eat their own crap

Regardless, I think we have a Darwinian duty to eat all the chickens we can, because they are the closest living relative to the T-Rex, and gosh only knows how many poor cavemen* got chewed up by those beasts.

Payback is a biatch.























* And even if there weren't cavemen running around back then Mr. Smarty Pants Whoever You Are, you and I both know that they were probably eating some sort of ancestor of ours, so let's not get technical, okay?

LOL , I was going to ask if this was first hand knowledge , but I saw the small print ;D

LOL