Melamine poisoning expands with 1,500 bandicoots dying in Liaoning
Of recent days, over 1,500 bandicoots died after they ate forage that contained melamine at an animal fur production farm in Liaoning Province. It is difficult to predict the real extent of harm stemmed from melamine poisoning.
News from Shenyang revealed that according to scholars from the Veterinary Department of Shenyang Agricultural University, animals died from kidney stones one after another in an animal farm in Liaoning in the past two months with accumulated death cases exceeding 1,500. Later, researchers had found melamine in stones inside the dead animals and fodder they fed on.
Last year, in Europe and the United States after death incidents of pets that were fed on pet food with melamine content, Chinese authorities had discarded some licenses of forage producers in Mainland China and announced a series of animal food inspection measures. However, there are simply too many underground animal food mills in Mainland China.
The above news is brought to you by Chris Thomas for Inside China Today on SOH Radio Network.
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