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May 2, 2007
FDA Announces Detention of all Vegetable Protein Shipments from China for Animal or Human Food Use
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has issued an Import Alert (IA 99-29) requiring the detention without physical examination of all vegetable protein products from China for animal or human food use due to the presence of melamine and/or melamine analogs. The affected products and/or FDA product code descriptions include: wheat gluten, wheat flour gluten, rice gluten, rice protein, rice protein concentrate, corn gluten, corn gluten meal, corn by-products, soy protein, soy bean meal, powder protein isolate, or protein powder, soy gluten, proteins (including amino acids and protein hydrosylates), and mung bean protein. Milled rice products are also listed.
According to the FDA, the samples of vegetable proteins that have tested positive for the presence of melamine and melamine analogs have, thus far, been traced to two Chinese firms, Xuzhou Anying Biologic Technology Development Co., Ltd. and Binzhou Futian Biology Technology Co. Ltd. Although records relating to importation of these products indicate that these two firms had manufactured the ingredients in question, strong evidence indicates that they did not. Moreover, despite many weeks of investigation, FDA states that it is still unknown who the actual manufacturer or manufacturers of the contaminated products imported from China are.
FDA further explains that in recent weeks there has been an outbreak of cat and dog deaths and illness associated with pet food manufactured with vegetable proteins contaminated with melamine and melamine related compounds, causing the recall of dog and cat food and other suspect products and ingredients. As of April 26, 2007, FDA had collected 750 samples of wheat gluten and products made with wheat gluten and, of those tested, 330 were positive for melamine and/or melamine related products. Of 85 samples of rice protein concentrate and products made with rice protein concentrate, 27 were positive for melamine and/or melamine related compounds.
FDA Announces Detention of all Vegetable Protein Shipments from China for Animal or Human Food Use
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has issued an Import Alert (IA 99-29) requiring the detention without physical examination of all vegetable protein products from China for animal or human food use due to the presence of melamine and/or melamine analogs. The affected products and/or FDA product code descriptions include: wheat gluten, wheat flour gluten, rice gluten, rice protein, rice protein concentrate, corn gluten, corn gluten meal, corn by-products, soy protein, soy bean meal, powder protein isolate, or protein powder, soy gluten, proteins (including amino acids and protein hydrosylates), and mung bean protein. Milled rice products are also listed.
According to the FDA, the samples of vegetable proteins that have tested positive for the presence of melamine and melamine analogs have, thus far, been traced to two Chinese firms, Xuzhou Anying Biologic Technology Development Co., Ltd. and Binzhou Futian Biology Technology Co. Ltd. Although records relating to importation of these products indicate that these two firms had manufactured the ingredients in question, strong evidence indicates that they did not. Moreover, despite many weeks of investigation, FDA states that it is still unknown who the actual manufacturer or manufacturers of the contaminated products imported from China are.
FDA further explains that in recent weeks there has been an outbreak of cat and dog deaths and illness associated with pet food manufactured with vegetable proteins contaminated with melamine and melamine related compounds, causing the recall of dog and cat food and other suspect products and ingredients. As of April 26, 2007, FDA had collected 750 samples of wheat gluten and products made with wheat gluten and, of those tested, 330 were positive for melamine and/or melamine related products. Of 85 samples of rice protein concentrate and products made with rice protein concentrate, 27 were positive for melamine and/or melamine related compounds.
