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The tainted Chinese ingredient that was incorporated into U.S. pet food and later made its way into chicken and pig feed was neither wheat gluten nor rice protein as advertised, but was seriously contaminated wheat flour, government investigators said Tuesday.
The finding adds a new layer of fraud to an already seamy tale of international deception.
Moreover, officials said, some of that contaminated flour, mislabeled as gluten, was mixed into fish food in Canada and exported to the United States, where it was fed to fish raised for human consumption.
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Farm-Raised Fish Given Tainted Food
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Government blames Chinese wheat flour; analysis of human health risk planned
By Rick Weiss
Washington Post, May 9, 2007
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