Another contaminant in the Pet Food?

So now they've officially ruled out the rat poison, but they still think there is something else in there ..... this just keeps getting scarier !  If they've done all this testing and STILL can't identify the exact contaminants it really makes you wonder if ANY amount of testing is ever enough

 I think they will find out what it is eventually, but it's a difficult process;

"Under the microscope and even to the naked eye, the contaminated gluten looks different from uncontaminated samples, Goldstein said. Researchers see melamine granules and other colored granules throughout the gluten, he said.
"There appears to be other things in there, other than the melamine, but identifying what they are is a long process," he said.
He said researchers ruled out aminopterin -- used as rat poison in other countries -- which New York state officials previously announced was in the pet food.
The FDA, Cornell and other researchers found melamine in high concentrations in the gluten -- up to 6.6 percent of the product.
Even so, they do not believe the melamine made the animals sick, although they said it is a marker for tracking the outbreak, because the crystal found in the melamine and in animals' urine and tissue is distinctive to this outbreak.
Because of a dearth of past studies on melamine exposure in dogs and cats, the only way to know for sure if it could cause the outbreak would be to feed the compound to those animals, Goldstein said, adding, "That's not an option."
More than 10 laboratories are researching the crystals and working together to develop criteria to determine which kidney illnesses were caused by the contaminated pet food. Although the link is relatively easy to establish because of the distinctive crystals, the process needed to find them is expensive and time-consuming, Goldstein said."

It is an expensive process and they don't know who yet is going to pay for it???
 
China also exports quite a bit of human food.  Carrots, garlic etc.   Will that be tested for "contaminants" as well?  What about the bread we buy.  How do we know where that wheat came from?
 
Seems ridiculous to have the "bread basket of the world" and then import this stuff.
 

China also exports quite a bit of human food. Carrots, garlic etc. Will that be tested for "contaminants" as well? What about the bread we buy. How do we know where that wheat came from?

 
Unfair trade agreements are supposedly good for us somehow, I live in Michigan so I don't see it, also one of the more troubling things is that this was supposedly human grade wheat gluten.
 
 
 
 

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even to the naked eye, the contaminated gluten looks different from uncontaminated samples, Goldstein said. Researchers see melamine granules and other colored granules throughout the gluten, he said.

This part really bothers me.  Don't they even look at the ingredients they buy?

This part really bothers me. Don't they even look at the ingredients they buy?

 
  I guess this is the closest anyone came to looking at it;
 
[linkhttp://www.iht.com/articles/2007/04/11/asia/gluten.php?page=1]http://www.iht.com/articles/2007/04/11/asia/gluten.php?page=1[/link]
 
ChemNutra, a Las Vegas company, said it had purchased the wheat gluten from Xuzhou Anying and then shipped it to pet food makers in the United States and Canada. ChemNutra said Xuzhou Anying had provided chemical analysis indicating that there were no impurities or contamination in the product.
ChemNutra also says it was led to believe that Xuzhou Anying operated its own manufacturing facilities.
 
 
  They trusted Xuzhou Anying's report on the wheat gluten.