FDA THEORY SUGGESTS PET FOOD INTENTIONALLY TAINTED

The Food and Drug Administration has announced that they are investigating the possibility that the recent tainted gluten ingredients may possibly have been purposely spiked with an industrial chemical to boost it's apparent protein content. So far, melamine's been found in both wheat gluten and rice protein concentrate imported from China. Media reports from South Africa suggest a third pet food ingredient, corn gluten, used in that country also was contaminated with melamine. That tainted ingredient has not been found in the United States, the FDA said.

FDA investigators are awaiting visas that will allow them to visit the Chinese plants where the vegetable protein ingredients were produced.

"Melamine was found in all three of those - it would certainly lend credibility to the theory that it may be intentional. That will be one of the theories we will pursue when we get into the plants in China," Stephen Sundlof, the FDA's chief veterinarian, told reporters.

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