Indictments Said To Be End Result of Tainted Pet Food Scan..

Indictments Said To Be End Result of Tainted Pet Food Scandal

Recent reports have indicated that a U.S. company and its owners,
along with two Chinese nationals and their businesses, have been
indicted in connection with last year's pet food scandal.

Very tellingly, this was the same scandal in which imported wheat
gluten contaminated with a toxic chemical contributed to the deaths of
at least 14 cats and dogs and sickened hundreds more.

As was announced on Wednesday by the U.S. Food and Drug
Administration, a federal grand jury indicted the defendants for their
roles in importing the pet food ingredient, which was contaminated
with melamine, a chemical commonly used to make plastics.

The FDA went on record as stating that Melamine has no approved use in
either pet or human food.

Wheat gluten typically is used as a way to thicken certain pet foods.

For interested persons, according to an FDA statement, indicted were:
ChemNutra, Inc., a Las Vegas company that buys food ingredients from
China to sell to U.S. companies; along with ChemNutra owners Sally
Qing Miller and her husband, Stephen Miller. Sally Qing Miller, a
Chinese national, is controlling owner and president of ChemNutra;
Stephen Miller is an owner and CEO of the U.S. firm.

In addition, also indicted were: Xuzhou Anying Biologic Technology
Development Co., LTD. (XAC), a Chinese firm that processes and exports
plant proteins to the United States; Mao Linzhun, a Chinese national
who is the owner and manager of XAC; Suzhou Textiles, Silk, Light
Industrial Products, Arts and Crafts I/E Co. LTD. (SSC), a Chinese
export broker that exports products from China to the United States;
and Chen Zhen Hao, president of SSC.

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