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Pete C. Pete C. is offline
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Default Tainted Wheat Gluten Fiasco

"Pete C." wrote:
>
> The Kat wrote:
> >
> > On Mon, 2 Apr 2007 11:40:09 -0500, "jmcquown" >
> > wrote:
> >
> > >I'm fortunate in that I haven't had any pets affected by the recall. My cat
> > >doesn't eat the original "in gravy" food cited in the products from Menu
> > >Foods out of Canada.

> >
> > My cat prefers dry food, and while I have, in the past, used Iams canned,
> > I've been using 9 Lives and Friskies recently, and both of those are 'safe'.
> >
> > > I've NOT heard of any human food
> > >gluten products being affected, despite what SQWERTZ (posting under yet
> > >another of his many names which I keep killfiling, daily) seems to think.

> >
> > No one has claimed any human food has been affected,
> > other than one ignorant jerk in this froup (sic).
> >

>
> I see there are already reports of at least one quiet human food recall.
> Might be unrelated, but given the nature of the human food being
> recalled odds are against that. Keep watching...
>
> Pete C.


The bread recalls appear to not be related per FDA recall bulletins that
indicate the bread recall began March 9th and is due to metal fragment
contamination.

http://www.fda.gov/oc/po/firmrecalls/winco03_07.html
http://www.fda.gov/oc/po/firmrecalls/safeway03_07.html

Pete C.