{"id":1079,"date":"2007-06-26T21:48:09","date_gmt":"2007-06-26T14:48:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/?p=1079"},"modified":"2007-06-27T23:12:24","modified_gmt":"2007-06-27T16:12:24","slug":"food-safety-agency-invites-comments-on-melamine-decisions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/watching\/food-safety-agency-invites-comments-on-melamine-decisions\/","title":{"rendered":"Food safety agency invites comments on melamine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The public is being asked to comment on a food safety agency&#8217;s decision-making process that led the agency to conclude that swine and poultry fed pet food scraps containing melamine and melamine-related compounds are unlikely to pose a human health risk.<\/p>\n<p>The decisions of the Department of Agriculture&#8217;s Food Safety and Inspection Service, detailed in the May 30 Federal Register and posted online at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fsis.usda.gov\/OPPDE\/rdad\/FRPubs\/2007-0018.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">www.fsis.usda.gov\/OPPDE\/rdad\/FRPubs\/2007-0018.pdf<\/a> (PDF, 78 Kb), were based on the best available scientific data and information, according to the agency.<\/p>\n<p>In the same Federal Register, the Food and Drug Administration issued a notice of availability of an interim safety\/risk assessment related to melamine.<\/p>\n<p>For more info <a href=\"http:\/\/www.avma.org\/onlnews\/javma\/jul07\/070701c.asp\">click here<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The public is being asked to comment on a food safety agency&#8217;s decision-making process that led the agency to conclude that swine and poultry fed pet food scraps containing melamine and melamine-related compounds are unlikely to pose a human health risk. The decisions of the Department of Agriculture&#8217;s Food Safety and Inspection Service, detailed in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,31,20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1079","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-food-recalls","category-veterinary-medicine","category-watching"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1079","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1079"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1079\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1079"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1079"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1079"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}