[at-l] at-l Digest, Vol 36, Issue 24

[Jan Lite]

Tue, yet still take care:
Pet food also linked to Salmonella in children...

http://abcnews.go.com/Health/Wellness/dry-pet-food-linked-salmonella-children/story?id=11344300

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> Message: 2
> Date: Fri, 20 Aug 2010 06:35:40 -0400
> From: "US" <ploomis at triton.net>
> Subject: Re: [at-l] Hiker food?
> To: <at-l at backcountry.net>
> Message-ID: <4AF6DCF3B6864DBF94FF616C8823297A at PatrickPC>
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> Pet food produced in this country has to meet the same standard (for
> commercial sterility, general labeling requirements and adultration, it can
> only contain edible ingredients) as food produced for human consumption for
> the very reason contained in this thread, people might eat it,,,,,
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> I supervise a processing area for a major food processor and when I
> attended Better Process Control School (an FDA requirement), the pet food
> people (Think purina) outnumbered the people food people............
>  ----- Original Message -----
>  From: dicentra
>  To: l.clayton.parker at gmail.com
>  Cc: at-l at backcountry.net
>  Sent: Thursday, August 19, 2010 2:40 PM
>  Subject: Re: [at-l] Hiker food?
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>
>  Sounds okay... but I have a but.
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>  The regulations/laws for processing pet foods are very different from
> those for humans. Who makes this product?
>

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