Las Vegas: Guilty pleas in contaminated pet food case
Guilty pleas in contaminated pet food case
18 Jun 2009
A Las Vegas company and its owners have pleaded guilty to distributing a tainted ingredient used to make pet food that reportedly killed thousands of animals.
Sally Qing Miller, 43, her husband, Stephen S. Miller, 56, and their company, ChemNutra Inc., pleaded guilty to some of the charges contained in a Feb. 6, 2008, federal indictment.
The indictment alleged that the Millers and ChemNutra, along with two Chinese companies, brought wheat gluten tainted with the chemical melamine into the U.S. It was then sold to pet-food makers.
Comments
I hope this wakes up cat owners. Wheat gluten has no business being in cat food anyway. There's no way a pet owner can predict what ingredient or product is contaminated on any given day - but companies like Wellness have quality control and will pre-emptively recall products that are suspicious. Wellness, along with zillions of other pet food companies, also uses Menu Foods but they have safeguards.
I think that local food companies also have more to lose if they're not careful, so they watch themselves more. As a vet once told us, expensive food is not guaranteed to be good, but cheap stuff is almost always guaranteed to be bad.
CORN SYRUP!!! yuck.