China makes arrest in Pet Food case

[Nikki Stone1]

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/05/04/business/worldbusiness/04food.html?_r=1&hp&oref=slogin

China Makes Arrest in Pet Food Case

By DAVID BARBOZA
Published: May 4, 2007
SHANGHAI, May 3 — The general manager of one of the companies accused of selling contaminated wheat gluten to pet food suppliers in the United States has been detained by the Chinese authorities, according to police officials here and a person who was briefed on the investigation.

Mao Lijun, head of the Xuzhou Anying Biologic Technology Development Company, is being held in coastal Jiangsu Province, about 320 miles northwest of Shanghai, though a police spokesman in Pei County declined to say on what charges.

In a telephone interview a few weeks ago, Mr. Mao denied any knowledge of how melamine, an industrial chemical, had adulterated pet food supplies sold under his company label earlier this year. He also insisted that his company had never exported any wheat gluten and that his products were only sold in the domestic market.

But regulators in the United States identified Xuzhou Anying and another Chinese company in nearby Shandong Province as the only sources of the contaminated ingredients that led to one of the biggest pet food recalls in American history.

[Ian David]

1. And somewhere in America, another child will get a kidney transplant. Thanks, China! n/t

[DainBramaged]

2. Sacrifice one tiny management person to satisfy the *ushies

Here is your sacrificial lamb, go forward and proclaim to your citizens, ALL IS WELL

[Nikki Stone1]

3. That was my thought too

Band aid time

[Annces]

4. China should be boycotted

Their government is despicable.

[Robbien]

5. Pot meet kettle

Do you really believe the factory farms/food processors in the good ole US of A are not messing around with the content of the nation's food. Do you really believe the regulation haters in our government aren't aiding and abetting those factory farms?

[Annces]

6. You are probably right

It would be easy enough to test foods, if you had the equipment.