{"id":2432,"date":"2009-07-23T02:34:09","date_gmt":"2009-07-22T19:34:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/?p=2432"},"modified":"2016-02-08T13:14:38","modified_gmt":"2016-02-08T19:14:38","slug":"fda-adulterated-animal-feed-seized","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/industry\/fda-adulterated-animal-feed-seized\/","title":{"rendered":"FDA: Adulterated Animal Feed Seized"},"content":{"rendered":"

Filthy conditions, failure to correct violations prompted action at Kentucky facility<\/em>
\nAt the request of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, U.S. marshals today seized livestock and horse feeds stored under filthy conditions at the Bi-County Farm Bureau Cooperative Association, Inc., in Florence, Ky.
\n\u201cThe FDA will not tolerate a company\u2019s failure to adequately control and prevent filth in its facility,\u201d said Michael Chappell, the FDA\u2019s acting associate commissioner for regulatory affairs. \u201cThe FDA is prepared to use whatever legal means are necessary and appropriate to keep potentially contaminated products out of the marketplace.\u201d
\nDuring a recent inspection of the Bi-County feed mill, FDA investigators discovered live and dead mice and evidence of bird activity throughout the facility. FDA laboratory analysis of samples collected during the inspection confirmed the presence of rodent urine, rodent feces, rodent hairs, and rodent-gnawed holes in bags, in and around food products.
\nActing on a warrant issued by the U.S. District Court in the Eastern District of Kentucky, marshals seized all FDA-regulated food products exposed to rodent and bird contamination at the facility. The seized products violate the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act because they were kept in conditions in which they may have become contaminated with filth.
\nBi-County manufactures feed and stores commercial feeds received through interstate commerce. The products are sold locally to farms and stables.\u00a0The products sold by Bi-County include:
\n15% Hog Grower & Finisher Feed
\nAgriflex Betonite
\nAIM Magnesium Oxide 56%
\nBarley Flakes
\nBeef, Land O\u2019Lakes Steak Maker Grower
\nBi-County 17% Layer Mash
\nBi-County Coop Farm Ration
\nBi-County Coop Ground Shell Corn
\nBi-County Feed Oats
\nBi-County Shell Corn
\nBi-County Super 12 Plus
\nBio-Cube Alfalfa Cubes
\nCalf Manna, Manna Pro
\nCattle Mineral Triple Trust
\nChampions Choice Mix-N-Fine Salt
\nChampions Choice Trace Mineral Salt
\nCoastal Brand Poultry Shell
\nCountry Acres Horse Feed
\nCrimped Oats
\nDiamond Crystal Pellets, water softener
\nDiamond Yeast Culture
\nEquine Merit Horse Balancer
\nFarmer\u2019s Friend Vitamin A, D & E
\nFeed Grade Sodium Bicarbonate
\nGran-I-Grit, Mt. Airy insoluble
\nHerd Maker Supreme
\nHigh Calcium Hydrated Lime
\nHomeGrown Game Bird & Poultry
\nHorsemans\u2019s Edge Pelleted
\nKemin Calcium Proprionate
\nLand O\u2019 Lakes Calf Primer
\nLayena
\nLegends Grow & Perform
\nLegends Racing Textured
\nLegends Show & Pleasure
\nLimestone Calcium Carbonate
\nMerry Mixer Dehydrated Alfala
\nPork Supreme LG Premix 100\/75
\nPurina Chow Turkey Starter
\nPurina Omalene 100
\nPurina Pig Startena
\nPurina Start & Grow Sunfresh
\nRabbit Pellets 25 lbs.
\nReliance Pleasure 11T
\nReliance Pleasure HP
\nS.S. Dairy 18% Supreme Dairy
\nScratch Feed
\nSolvent Extracted Soybean Meal
\nTizwhiz Train N Maintain
\nTriple Crown Complete
\nTriple Crown Growth
\nTriple Crown Senior Formula
\nTriple Trust 20-15 Red Calf Manna Milk Replacer
\nTriple Trust Dried Molasses
\nTriple Trust Feed Dicalium Phosphate
\nTriple Trust Horse Feed
\nTriple Trust Rabbit Pellets
\nTriple Trust Textured Goat Feed
\nUltralyx Dried Distillers Grains
\nPurchasers of these products should not feed them to animals and should discard them. In addition, purchasers should thoroughly wash their hands after handling the products.
\nJames A. Zerhusen, U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Kentucky, filed the complaint requesting the seizure, and his office will continue to coordinate with the FDA to ensure proper disposition of the seized items.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Filthy conditions, failure to correct violations prompted action at Kentucky facility At the request of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, U.S. marshals today seized livestock and horse feeds stored under filthy conditions at the Bi-County Farm Bureau Cooperative Association, Inc., in Florence, Ky. \u201cThe FDA will not tolerate a company\u2019s failure to adequately control […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,14,20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2432","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-food-recalls","category-industry","category-watching"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2432","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=2432"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2432\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6890,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2432\/revisions\/6890"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2432"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2432"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2432"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}