McLeod reveals details previously unknown to me about Stephen Miller, the mysterious CEO of ChemNutra -- the Las Vegas firm which imported the tainted wheat gluten (which Chinese authorities still maintain they did not export).
Perhaps the FDA should be focusing on the phantoms in the poison pet food scare story. Phantoms like million dollar operations without signs on their doors with rundown warehouses in China.By the way, there is (or was, until recently) a somewhat conspiracy-minded blogger named Stephen Miller who speaks about having worked for E.F. Hutton. The ChemNutra Miller lists that firm on his resume. But Miller the Blogger lives, or lived, in Bridgeport, Connecticut, at a time when "our" Miller was in either California or Nevada. Whatever the truth of the matter, the "Screwed Again" site, which has not been active since January, published some rather good posts.
Phantoms like Xuzhou Anying, which says it does not export to the U.S. when it just did--through a supplier only 50 miles down the road.
ChemNutra's China office is located at Jing Sui Bldg. 601, Hangzhou, Zhejiang. The contact person for the China office is listed as Mr. Zhu Hao.
ChemNutra lists the number of employees at it China operation as "1 to 50" and the number of employees at its Las Vegas operation as "less than five people". That's not a lot of employees for a company whose annual sales are above US$100 million.
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Bridgeport, Conn., is essentially New York City, guys. It's just about 60 miles from the Jersey address Miller used after the East Village address in NYC. He did have a Connecticut company at some time before that 1999 dot.com business, too (was that the Medisomething?)
BTW, I checked Miller's Archematics address in Jersey City. It's a condo -- not a business site -- on the river next to the NY/NJ Port Authority, literally right beside the Holland Tunnel. In 2001, 1 bedrooms were selling for about $250,000, pretty affordable by NYC/environ standards.
Saw an item at newstarget that may or may not pertain to pet food scandal, but it looks suspicious.
"A variety of genetically modified corn that was approved for human consumption in 2006 caused signs of liver and kidney toxicity as well as hormonal changes in rats in a study performed by researchers from the independent Committee for Independent Research and Genetic Engineering at the University of Caen in France."
http://www.newstarget.com/z021784.html
The pet food recall was because the pets developed kidney failure. Could there be a connection?
Interesting. The toxic ingredient in the pet food was, we are told, wheat gluten. This is a bit ironic, since wheat is considered a higher quality ingredient.
The lowest quality pet foods use corn gluten, made from the parts that humans don't eat (the cob and so forth). Dogs do not digest this stuff well and cats should not have it at all. Yet it is commonly found.
A high quality pet food will use rice, oats or potatoes.
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