Domestically Manufactured Melamine-Tainted Feed Ingredients Recalled

USDA has recalled ingredients used in livestock, shrimp and fish feed due to contamination with melamine, as noted the other day in a question-and-answer session led by Dr. David Acheson, FDAs assistant commissioner for food protection.

As Acheson noted in the session, the source of the contamination is within the United States, and this incident is not directly related to the recent pet food situation. Its link to the pet food situation is essentially that it is another recall of a melamine product, he said, but it is not a product that has wound up in pet foods.

Acheson continued: FDA is alerting livestock and fish and shrimp feed manufacturers about a voluntary recall of feed ingredients by two companiesthe first, Tembec of Toledo, OH; and the second, Uniscope, Inc., of Johnstown, CO. The two companies are taking this action because several products they make have been found to contain melamine and melamine-related compounds.

For complete details, see the transcript of the session on USDAs website.