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04-27-2007, 12:28 AM
By Calum MacLeod (http://www.usatoday.com/community/tags/reporter.aspx?id=90), USA TODAY
BEIJING — Chinese authorities acknowledged for the first time that ingredients exported to make pet food contained a prohibited chemical, stepping up their probe of two Chinese companies' roles in one of the USA's largest animal-food recalls.
While pledging cooperation with U.S. authorities investigating the recall, the Chinese government in a statement Thursday also disputed that the chemical — melamine, which is used to make plastic — was responsible for harming pets.
the entire story:
http://www.usatoday.com/money/indust...a_N.htm?csp=34 (http://www.usatoday.com/money/industries/2007-04-26-pet-food-china_N.htm?csp=34)
BEIJING — Chinese authorities acknowledged for the first time that ingredients exported to make pet food contained a prohibited chemical, stepping up their probe of two Chinese companies' roles in one of the USA's largest animal-food recalls.
While pledging cooperation with U.S. authorities investigating the recall, the Chinese government in a statement Thursday also disputed that the chemical — melamine, which is used to make plastic — was responsible for harming pets.
the entire story:
http://www.usatoday.com/money/indust...a_N.htm?csp=34 (http://www.usatoday.com/money/industries/2007-04-26-pet-food-china_N.htm?csp=34)