Who conducted the risk assessment?
The risk assessment was conducted by scientists from: • • FDA • Centers for Disease Control and Prevention • Environmental Protection Agency • Department of Homeland Security • U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA). This team is now compiling a scientific assessment of the risk to animal health associated with eating animal feed that contains melamine and its compounds. How did melamine get from pet food to human food? Scraps of contaminated pet food that contained only low levels of melamine were distributed to farms in a limited number of states and added to the feed eaten by hogs and poultry. Some of these animals were processed for human food. What is happening to the animals on farms that may have eaten contaminated feed? Hogs and poultry on farms suspected of receiving contaminated feed have been held under state quarantine or voluntarily by the owners. In several cases, feed samples have tested negative for melamine and related compounds. It is assumed that because only small am
