FDA to test food glutens for contamination

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070424/ts_nm/petfood_testing_dc_1

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration said on Tuesday it will test imports
of wheat gluten, corn gluten, corn meal, soy protein, rice bran and rice
protein concentrate to detect any contamination with melamine.

The materials are used to manufacture both human and livestock feed, the FDA
said.

"We're going to target firms that we know are receiving imported products,"
said David Acheson, chief medical officer of the FDA's Center for Food
Safety and Applied Nutrition. "The goal is obviously to sample as much as we
can."

Melamine, used in plastics and fertilizer, was recently found in wheat
gluten and rice protein, both used in some U.S. pet foods.

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