Post #382,817
10/28/13 5:54:38 AM
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Got a dog? Death of 600 pets tied to jerky treats.
http://www.salon.com..._to_jerky_treats/
Deaths of almost 600 pets tied to jerky treats
The FDA still doesn't know why the imported treats are making animals sick
BY LINDSAY ABRAMS
A mysterious illness has killed nearly 600 pets, mostly dogs, and sickened over 3,600 others. And the only thing investigators know about it, according to an FDA update released today, is that it has something to do with jerky treats imported from China.
While the investigation has been ongoing since 2007, officials still have few answers for distressed pet owners, NBC News reports:
ÂWe still are extensively testing treats for a number of things, [Martine Hartogensis, a deputy director for the FDAÂs Center for Veterinary Medicine] told NBC News. ÂWe do seem to be getting some leads, but we still have a little bit of a ways to go.Â
Kendal Harr, a veterinary clinical pathologist who has been tracking the problem, says that the specific compound responsible for the illnesses continues to elude experts.
ÂI think that what it tells us is that the intoxicant is something that weÂre not used to dealing with as a toxin in North America, she said.
The FDA hasnÂt issued a formal recall, so they arenÂt able to name the affected brands. They are reminding people that jerky treats arenÂt essential to pets diets. Until they can figure out whatÂs killing the animals, it might be best to seek out a different way of rewarding your dog.
Oh BRAVO! Murican biochemists, importers and other incompetents.
SIX YEARS.. and they Have. Not. a. CLUE??
Did they spend upwards of a C-note in their 'research'?
I wonder.. after the baby-formulas with melanin and other execrable episodes--what Would it take? for 'Made in USA' to become more fashionable than,
Made CHEAP: so it costs less-no matter what else it COSTSÂ
If there's any potential Up-side?
Murican Vulture-capitalism, adopted with about as much diligence/research-of-pernicious Side-Effects as... say? the above:
may well show up at the necropsy of China's entire massively self-polluting enterprise, as:
Root-cause assigned.
WHAT!?!--TWO dead ex-SuperPowers?.. a few years apart??
Now THERE's Cosmic Justice if I've ever seen one.
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Post #382,818
10/28/13 7:53:08 AM
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My first thought was dioxin
We had an episode with it in Belgium where an agro-industrial fat processor mixed spent transformer oil in the chicken feed stock. We weren't testing for it at the time because noone thought anyone would be greedy enough to bring it near any food chain.
The symptoms are varied but eventually the result is death once the accumulated dose is high enough.
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Post #382,936
10/28/13 11:01:33 PM
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What did Belgium do with that creep?
Your is best more-than-random guess I've heard. (Ricin.. doesn't happen accidentally IIRC--and would have to be deliberate.)
But there's lots of stuff via n!/n-factorial accident which No One could cover, encyclopedically :-/
Would Chinese capitalists use awful xfmr oil to make a buck?
Did a Chinese "entrepreneur" put melanine in baby formula (to game the %protein test?)
He did--and lost his head/cleanly, I imagine.
We exported this deadly-system and China has Improved it beyond the merely unethical to the outright vicious.
Some pretty-Serious Cosmic Humor, worldwide now--if that's what it's about.
(Thus a pretty-sick Cosmos, to boot ?)
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Post #382,952
10/29/13 8:11:15 AM
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This is Belgium. In short: nothing.
This happened in 1999. In 2010, the two brothers who owned/operated the plant were sentenced to 2 years in jail and 1M euro restitution to one private plaintiff. The brothers appealed and as far as I know, this is still pending. They have not spent a day in jail, or paid a penny. The rolled up damages claims of the smaller operators and the government, totalling over $230M euro will not even reached the docket until the appeal has been handled.
Cases like this, where captains of industry come under direct threat, have a strong likelyhood of dying due to expiration under the statue of limitations. I fully expect that to happen here as well.
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Post #382,953
10/29/13 8:16:20 AM
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Wow. :-(
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Post #382,954
10/29/13 8:32:20 AM
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Statute of Limitations apply even if they've filed charges?
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Drew
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Post #382,988
10/29/13 10:07:12 PM
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It is complicated...
In a nutshell, the initial term starts when the nefarious act is committed. Assuming someone got caught, the initial term ends. A new one starts with each investigative or prosecution act. The replacement term has the same length as the original.
For criminal acts, the total term is usually limited to the double of the original. In civil cases, the timer can be reset indefinitely. That is usually used against small fry by both government and private persuers, but given a defendant with deep enough pockets, they can stretch the case until the court finally punts.
A sales tax fraud case where the State was duped for 10M euro was just tossed that way. The main suspect was the grandson of Brussels' largest real estate developer. Par for the course there...
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Post #382,989
10/30/13 12:23:32 AM
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Why.. why Belgium seems to be competing with ... US for #1!!
in institutionalized corruption (beneath mandatory veneers of sanctimonious blather too--I presume.)
May Be: When Terra's Gross Population exceeded the sane-level for cohabitation with other species AND amongst their diverse selves:
Self-government was doomed to fail via the perpetual virus of cupidity in biped (primordial) jelloware?
Are These? those famous End Times beloved of the nutters now ubiquitous.. ever since that Guttenberg thing took off--and exponential since transistors happened?
People within Gated Compounds WANT. TO. KNOW.
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Post #382,823
10/28/13 8:38:40 AM
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Re: Got a dog?
Sure do.
When I first saw that report, I looked at the box containing my dog's jerky treats. It had a prominent diagonal "Made in the USA" verbiage. They obviously knew the report was coming.
Reminds me of Trader Joe's ginger jam jars that went missing from their shelves. When asked, they said they had come from China and some had "quality issues". Yep.
It pays to look at the origin of a product and say "No!" to China. They know pure capitalism.
Alex
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Post #382,826
10/28/13 9:45:49 AM
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Some packaging makes it hard
Dot printed in black-ish ink on a clear bottle containing purple grape juice. Good luck even finding the CoO labeling, much less reading it.
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Drew
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Post #382,976
10/29/13 5:38:26 PM
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I've got dogs...
I haven't bought them treats that originated in China for at least 5 years now. We suspected that contaminated treats were involved in one of our dog's sickness.
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