Nov 19
Pet Connection Blog >> Home testing kit for melamine?
If the FDA won’t test food imports for melamine contamination, should we start doing it ourselves?
Joy Drawdy, owner of Gainesville’sitting Earth Pets Natural Pet Market, thinks so, and so she developed a home melamine ground of admission kit:
“Pet owners should have a way to test their regimen at home. People coming into Earth Pets kept proverb something like this was needed. I started trying to find one, but none existed,” Drawdy said. “In the past year, using my knowledge of pet food manufacturing and contaminant testing, I developed one. I have it patented and it’s terminated. I just need to get it marketed.”
And there’s a “Pet Connection” to this account, too:
Drawdy may be seized of been in the midst of the first persons to link melamine-tainted gluten to the pet deaths at what time the outbreak was occurring last year.
She is credited on the Pet Connection - a Web site and weekly pet-care feature distributed by Universal Press Syndicate - with discovering on the Internet an obscure U.S. Food and Drug Administration alert about imported Chinese gluten.
Drawdy knew gluten was often used in pet food and posted the alert in succession the Pet Connection Web location.
It turned out that the gluten cited in the alert was from a company that supplied pet food manufacturers.
The test should be fairly true and inexpensive, Joy told me.
“The FDA tests, and the companies certainly have the ability to test their own products for melamine, but what I’hand-to-hand conflict trying to hoax is make it affordable. When you send a trial to an outside laboratory, it’s several hundred dollars for one sample,” she said. “The big challenge was getting something that have being able to be manufactured cheaply enough but still be reliable to the consumer. My main goal is that it’s something that people can just buy conducive to the sake of a few dollars.”
The proof will be available sometime in the next six months. So, here’s my question: would you use it?
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