[NAFEX] Melamine
Lucky Pittman
lucky.pittman at murraystate.edu
Mon Apr 30 17:44:24 EDT 2007
So, Tom;
How many of the cats that have died of kidney
failure were frequent pool swimmers?
Or, had access to an open swimming pool?
We're still a good month away from most folks opening their pools here.
I'm still not buying it.
LLP
At 12:14 PM 4/30/2007, Tom O. wrote:
>Hi All,
>
>I really enjoy piecing together news. God knows
>you cannot rely on the media to do it.
>
>As you know melamine contaminated feed has been
>linked to pet deaths. Then melamine
>contaminated feed was fed to pigs, and the
>melamine contaminated pork hit the store shelves (thanks Tyson).
>
>Of course we are told no recall is necessary,
>for melamine is of little risk to humans.
>
>What they do not tell you is that it was not the
>melamine alone that killed the pets. The
>melamine combined in the kidneys of the animals
>with another contaminate and crystallized, hindering kidney function.
>
>What was this other contaminate? A common
>poolside chemical, found in most every swimming pool and hot tub.
>
>The University of Guelph (Guelph, Ontario
>veterinary college) has already explored it.
>
>
>
>Discovery by Guelph, Ont., scientists may show
>how recalled pet food became toxic
>
>
>
>
>
>Noor Javed, Canadian Press
>
>
>
>Published: Saturday, April 28, 2007
>
>TORONTO (CP) - A chemical process that occurs
>between two compounds, one used to make plastics
>and another employed in pool chlorination, may
>explain how North American pets were affected,
>some fatally, by recalled pet food products, researchers suggest.
>
>Cyanuric acid, which was found in urine samples
>from animals that died, and melamine, a compound
>identified in the gluten found in the recalled
>pet food, react with one another to form
>crystals that may block kidney function,
>researchers at the University of Guelph said Friday.
>
>
>
>What is cyanuric acid? Cyanuric acid is a weak
>acid that is marketed as a chlorine stabilizer
>for swimming pools. Other terms used by the
>pool supply industry are isocyanurates,
>conditioner or CYA. When exposed to the
>ultraviolet rays of the sun, the free chlorine
>in the pool water will break down and
>escape. Cyanuric acid is intended to reduce this loss of chlorine.
>Now for the extra score bonus question
Name
>one animal that eats pork and swims in pools treated with cyanuric acid?
>
>I knew you would get it. So melamine alone will
>not kill you, unless you go swimming and ingest
>a bit of pool water. So if drowning doesnt get you the kidney failure will.
>
>Later,
>Tom
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