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Tainted Chinese Milk Chemical Kills 1,500 raccoon dogs
stumble digg reddit del. ico. us news trust mixx. com GILLIAN WONG | October 20, 2008 04:26 PM EST

Those permitting their children commercial candies during Samhain, please beware. Kraft and Mars Corporations own factories in China. If your children's candy comes from China, it may very well be contaminated with melamine.



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Some 1,500 raccoon dogs, cruelly bred for their raccoon-like fur, have died after eating feed tainted with the same chemical that contaminated dairy products and sickened tens of thousands of babies nationwide, a veterinarian said Monday, Oct. 24, 2008. The raccoon dogs, a breed native to east Asia whose fur is used to make trim on coats and other clothing were fed a product that contained the chemical melamine and developed kidney stones, said Zhang Wenkui, a veterinary professor at Shenyang Agriculture University. All of the dogs died on farms in just one village.



Some 1,500 dogs bred for their raccoon-like fur have died after eating feed tainted with melamine, a veterinarian said Monday, raising questions about how widespread the industrial chemical is in China's food chain.


The revelation comes amid a crisis over dairy products tainted with melamine that has caused kidney stones in tens of thousands of Chinese children and has been linked to the deaths of four infants.


The raccoon dogs _ a breed native to east Asia whose fur is used to trim coats and other clothing _ died of kidney failure after eating the tainted feed, said Zhang Wenkui, a veterinary professor at Shenyang Agriculture University.


"First, we found melamine in the dogs' feed, and second, I found that 25 percent of the stones in the dogs' kidneys were made up of melamine," said Zhang, who performed a necropsy _ an animal autopsy _ on about a dozen dogs.


Zhang declined to say when the animals died, but a report Monday in the Southern Metropolis Daily said the deaths occurred over the past two months.


The animal deaths were a reminder of last year's uproar over a Chinese-made pet food ingredient containing melamine that was linked to the deaths of dozens of dogs and cats in the United States and touched off a massive pet food recall.


It was not immediately clear how the chemical entered the raccoon dog feed. But in the tainted milk scandal and last year's pet food recall, melamine was believed to have been added to artificially boost nitrogen levels, making products seem higher in protein when tested.


At the time, China's product safety authorities revoked the business licenses of questionable firms, announced tougher guidelines and increased inspections. But the countless small, illegally operating manufacturers found throughout the country make monitoring difficult.


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