FDA to test food glutens for contamination

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The U.S. Food and Drug Administration said on Tuesday it will test imports
of wheat gluten, corn gluten, corn meal, soy protein, rice bran and rice
protein concentrate to detect any contamination with melamine.

The materials are used to manufacture both human and livestock feed, the FDA
said.

"We're going to target firms that we know are receiving imported products,"
said David Acheson, chief medical officer of the FDA's Center for Food
Safety and Applied Nutrition. "The goal is obviously to sample as much as we
can."

Melamine, used in plastics and fertilizer, was recently found in wheat
gluten and rice protein, both used in some U.S. pet foods.

Hugs,

CatNipped

CatNipped wrote:

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070424/...d_testing_dc_1

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration said on Tuesday it will test imports
of wheat gluten, corn gluten, corn meal, soy protein, rice bran and rice
protein concentrate to detect any contamination with melamine.

The materials are used to manufacture both human and livestock feed, the FDA
said.

Uhhh..... "human FEED"??????? (I agree a lot of the
"doctored" food products we find in grocery stores these
days bear similarities, but that's the first time I've seen
anyone admit it!

"EvelynVogtGamble(Divamanque)" wrote:

The materials are used to manufacture both human and livestock feed, the FDA
said.

Uhhh..... "human FEED"??????? (I agree a lot of the
"doctored" food products we find in grocery stores these
days bear similarities, but that's the first time I've seen
anyone admit it!

Bok bok bok bok bok bok bok bok... where's the human feed? I'm hungry!

"EvelynVogtGamble(Divamanque)" wrote in message
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CatNipped wrote:

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070424/...d_testing_dc_1

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration said on Tuesday it will test
imports of wheat gluten, corn gluten, corn meal, soy protein, rice bran
and rice protein concentrate to detect any contamination with melamine.

The materials are used to manufacture both human and livestock feed, the
FDA said.

Uhhh..... "human FEED"??????? (I agree a lot of the "doctored" food
products we find in grocery stores these days bear similarities, but
that's the first time I've seen anyone admit it!

If you had ever had the privilege of eating wheat gluten products on a
regular basis, you would find the notion of calling it human feed
appropriate.

It is used in fake hamburger in particular. As well as fake chicken and
seafood.

Jo

The materials are used to manufacture both human and livestock feed,
the FDA said.
Uhhh..... "human FEED"??????? (I agree a lot of the "doctored" food
products we find in grocery stores these days bear similarities, but
that's the first time I've seen anyone admit it!

Have a look round a shop catering to bodybuilders sometime. Enormous
tins of purified protein and the like. I have even seen one labelled
RAW GLANDS. Yum.

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jofirey wrote:

"EvelynVogtGamble(Divamanque)" wrote in message
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CatNipped wrote:


http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070424/...d_testing_dc_1

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration said on Tuesday it will test
imports of wheat gluten, corn gluten, corn meal, soy protein, rice bran
and rice protein concentrate to detect any contamination with melamine.

The materials are used to manufacture both human and livestock feed, the
FDA said.

Uhhh..... "human FEED"??????? (I agree a lot of the "doctored" food
products we find in grocery stores these days bear similarities, but
that's the first time I've seen anyone admit it!


If you had ever had the privilege of eating wheat gluten products on a
regular basis, you would find the notion of calling it human feed
appropriate.

It is used in fake hamburger in particular. As well as fake chicken and
seafood.

That's the point I was making!


Jo

"EvelynVogtGamble(Divamanque)" wrote:

jofirey wrote:

If you had ever had the privilege of eating wheat gluten products on a
regular basis, you would find the notion of calling it human feed
appropriate.

It is used in fake hamburger in particular. As well as fake chicken and
seafood.

That's the point I was making!

Allow me to admit that I really *like* the "fake meat" dishes in
Chinese food that use wheat gluten as substitutes. There are a few
vegetarian Chinese restaurants in my area that use it and I've always
enjoyed it. Not as a meat substitute, since I also eat meat. I just
like it as a food in its own right (I can hear the jeers now ).

Of course, I won't be eating any wheat gluten anywhere, until it can
be proven beyond a doubt that it's not contaminated!

Joyce

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"EvelynVogtGamble(Divamanque)" wrote:

jofirey wrote:

If you had ever had the privilege of eating wheat gluten products on a
regular basis, you would find the notion of calling it human feed
appropriate.

It is used in fake hamburger in particular. As well as fake chicken and
seafood.

That's the point I was making!

Allow me to admit that I really *like* the "fake meat" dishes in
Chinese food that use wheat gluten as substitutes. There are a few
vegetarian Chinese restaurants in my area that use it and I've always
enjoyed it. Not as a meat substitute, since I also eat meat. I just
like it as a food in its own right (I can hear the jeers now ).

Of course, I won't be eating any wheat gluten anywhere, until it can
be proven beyond a doubt that it's not contaminated!

Joyce

I used to like the fake scallops. Dipped in egg and then breadcrumbs and
fried. They didn't much taste like scallops but at the time I'd never
tasted a scallop.

And I didn't hate the "choplets", a sort of brown disc that was heated and
served with gravy.

Just seems to me that Karma is being mean when first its the organic spinach
and then the wheat gluten that have turned deadly.

I won't be eating any more wheat gluten either, but that is because I
finally learned I'm allergic to wheat gluten in such a concentrated form.
No wonder I always had allergies at Grandma's house.

Jo