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Article: Industrial chemical found in Ohio feed
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- May 31, 2007
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A Toledo manufacturer added the same industrial chemicals that
sickened and killed pets nationwide to an ingredient used in
livestock and fish feeds, federal officials announced Wednesday.
It's the first time a U.S. company has been accused of
intentionally adding the chemicals to animal or human food, and
prompted recalls yesterday of the fish and shrimp feed but not that
intended for livestock.
"We believed we were making a compliant product," John Valley,
executive vice president of Tembec BTLSR Inc., told the Pittsburgh
Tribune-Review yesterday.
China was widely criticized after the U.S. Food and Drug
Administration discovered the same chemicals -- melamine, which is
used to make ...