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U.S. / NEWS Sat Dec 15, 2007 @ 4:58pm neoform

Local 6 -- An elementary student in Marion County was arrested Thursday after school officials found her cutting food during lunch with a knife that she brought from home, police said. The 10-year-old girl, a student at Sunrise Elementary School in Ocala, was cha.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Fri Jul 6, 2007 @ 4:46pm neoform

www.wrex.com -- A Rockford woman claims she was denied service at two local McDonald's because of her disability. Now she's filed a lawsuit against the fast food chain. 13 News sat down with Dawn Larson to talk about the suit. Dawn Larson was born was Holt-Oram Syndro.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Thu May 31, 2007 @ 4:37pm neoform

Washington Post -- An Ohio company has long been adding the industrial toxin melamine to animal feed ingredients, and those feeds have been eaten by livestock and fish meant for human consumption, officials with the Food and Drug Administration announced yesterday. The c.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Sun Apr 29, 2007 @ 9:26pm neoform

FOX News -- Two federal agencies said Saturday a continuing investigation affirms that the risk to humans from hogs that may have eaten contaminated pet food is very low and that no recall is warranted. The government said last week that 345 of 6,000 hogs that may.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Tue Apr 24, 2007 @ 10:44pm neoform

FOX News -- Salvaged pet food contaminated with an industrial chemical was fed to hogs in as many as six states, federal health officials said Tuesday. It was not immediately clear if any of the hogs entered the food supply for humans. Food safety officials have q.. Read More

U.S. / OPINION Mon Apr 23, 2007 @ 11:33pm neoform

CBS News -- In late 2005, a year before a deadly outbreak of E. coli in spinach, the Food and Drug Administration sent a letter to California growers expressing its "serious concern" over ongoing outbreaks of foodborne illness from that state's lettuce and spinach cr.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Mon Apr 23, 2007 @ 8:14am neoform

Washington Post -- The Food and Drug Administration has known for years about contamination problems at a Georgia peanut butter plant and on California spinach farms that led to disease outbreaks that killed three people, sickened hundreds, and forced one of the biggest pro.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Fri Apr 20, 2007 @ 11:16pm neoform

Washington Post -- The industrial chemical that led to a nationwide recall of cat and dog food has been found in another pet food ingredient imported from China, and in corn gluten sent to South Africa. Melamine-tainted rice protein was used by five pet food makers, incl.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Fri Apr 20, 2007 @ 8:23am neoform

USA Today -- A nitrogen-rich chemical used to make plastic and sometimes as a fertilizer may have been deliberately added to an ingredient in pet food that has sickened and killed cats and dogs across the country, public and private officials say. A leading theory is.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Fri Apr 13, 2007 @ 8:18am neoform

Washington Post -- As many as 6 million prepared meals stockpiled near potential victims of the 2006 hurricane season spoiled in the Gulf Coast heat last summer when the Federal Emergency Management Agency ran short of warehouse and refrigeration space, according to agency.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Thu Apr 12, 2007 @ 11:48pm neoform

MSNBC -- Federal officials still can’t give the all clear when it comes to the nation’s pet food supply, though they assured lawmakers they’re aggressively checking stores and suppliers. The Food and Drug Administration said it had inspected about 400 sto.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Tue Apr 3, 2007 @ 7:00am neoform

FOX News -- The U.S. is blocking imports of wheat gluten from a company in China, acting after an investigation implicated the contaminated ingredient in the recent pet-food deaths of cats and dogs. The Food and Drug Administration took action against wheat gluten.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Sun Apr 1, 2007 @ 2:20am neoform

CBS News -- The recall of wet and dry pet foods contaminated with a chemical found in plastics and pesticides expanded Saturday to include a new brand even as investigators were puzzled why the substance would kill dogs and cats. Nestle Purina PetCare Co. said it.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Fri Mar 30, 2007 @ 6:08pm neoform

CNN -- Recalled pet foods contained a chemical used to make plastics, but government tests failed to confirm the presence of rat poison, federal officials said Friday. The Food and Drug Administration said it found melamine in samples of the Menu Foods pet fo.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Fri Mar 23, 2007 @ 8:40pm neoform

CBS News -- As many as one in six animals died in tests of suspect dog and cat food by the manufacturer last month after complaints the products were poisoning pets around the country, the government said Monday. "That's a huge number, considering when you feed pe.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Fri Mar 23, 2007 @ 4:21pm neoform

CNN -- Rat poison was found in the pet food suspected of causing kidney failure that killed at least 16 cats and dogs, but scientists still don't know how it got there, state officials said Friday. The toxin was identified as aminopterin, which is used to kil.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Wed Mar 21, 2007 @ 8:13am neoform

CBS News -- A Chicago woman sued Menu Foods on Tuesday, alleging the pet food manufacturer delayed announcing a recall of 60 million containers of dog and cat food despite knowing its products were contaminated and potentially deadly. Dawn Majerczyk, 43, said her.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Sun Mar 18, 2007 @ 12:40pm neoform

FOX News -- Pet owners were worried Saturday that the pet food in their cupboards could be deadly after millions of containers of dog and cat food sold at major retailers across North America were recalled. Meanwhile, two other companies — Nestle Purina PetCare.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Fri Feb 23, 2007 @ 5:13pm mrmdc

CBS News -- Even for New Yorkers who had seen everything, the sight was a jaw dropper: hordes of rats running freely through a closed fast food restaurant in the West Village. Agile, plump, leaping and bounding from table to table, the rodents ran across the floor.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Mon Feb 19, 2007 @ 11:32am mrmdc

MSNBC -- To the locals, it's the "McMissile" case. And like the name, the details of it spill forth like a bad joke: A woman is driving north on Interstate 95. Three kids squirm in the back seat, and her sister, six months pregnant and having early contractions.. Read More