First Pork, Then Chicken, Now Fish
Farmed fish have been fed meal spiked with the same chemical that has been linked to the pet food recall, but the contamination was probably too low to harm anyone who ate the fish, federal officials said Tuesday.
The Canadian-made meal included what was purported to be wheat gluten, a protein source, imported from China. The material was actually wheat flour spiked by the chemical melamine and related, nitrogen-rich compounds to make it appear more protein rich than it was, officials said.
After pigs and chickens, the farmed fish mark the third food animal given contaminated feed. The level of contamination is expected to be too low to pose any danger to human health, said Dr. David Acheson, the FDA’s assistant commissioner for food protection.
This is getting ridiculous, it really is. What’s on the plate for tomorrow?
Seriously, if some “evil do’ers wanted to “contaminate” the food supply, do you really think we would find out before it was too late? 51 days into this whole debacle and they are still in the discovery phase and they still don’t know what affect if any, melamine has on human beings.