Now contaminated fish??

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Fish Fed Melamine-Tainted Feed, Rice Protein Actually Wheat Gluten

Fish now affected by melamine-tainted feed. Numbers unknown.

Fish feed contaminated: Contaminated feed went into fish feed in
Canada, sold to US fish farms. Investigators have only been to one
farm and no fish has entered the market yet. Learned in the last week
that contaminated fish feed ingredient came through ChemNutra - the
same company that supplied Menu Foods. Fish meal constitutes less
than
50% of fish food. Pet food quality control failed to detect problems:
Wheat gluten added instead of rice protein concentrate due to labeling
issues.

Contaminated shipments labeled wheat flour: Not labeled wheat gluten
or rice protein concentrate. Wheat gluten and wheat flour are related.
Pet food with contaminated rice protein concentrate actually contained
wheat gluten.

Affects on farm animals not yet conclusive: Animal exposure risk
assessment not yet complete. May take a week. Although the FDA is
saying that the exposure to the animals was brief and the
concentration is low and even if you take an extreme position of
exposure, the risk is 2500 times below any known possible risk.

FDA in reactive mode: FDA is currently focused on testing new imports
of wheat gluten and rice protein concentrate, not other possible
suspects. FDA will look at other ingredients if they start to see
unusual spikes of unexplained illnesses.