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BEIJING: President Hu Jintao of China on Wednesday urged farms to improve food safety and develop the organic sector, a day after the U.S. food safety authorities said that thousands of hogs had eaten salvaged pet food from China that had contained the industrial chemical melamine.

Smithfield Foods, the biggest U.S. hog producer, said Wednesday it was unlikely that it had fed contaminated feed to its hogs but that it was checking all of its feed suppliers.

Urine from hogs in California, North Carolina and South Carolina tested positive for melamine, a chemical contained in rice-protein concentrate imported from China, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration said Tuesday. Hogs in New York, Utah and, possibly, Ohio also are believed to have eaten tainted pet food, but their urine has not yet been tested.

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration also is testing rice-protein concentrate for a second contaminant, cyanuric acid, a chemical used as a pool cleaner that is high in nitrogen.

www.iht.com/articles/2007...gluten.php

I knew I had heard somewhere it was already in or could be in Human Food.
grace06