Cross post as necessary, as it affects livestock feeds as well as
horse feeds:
FDA NEWS RELEASE
For Immediate Release: July 20,
2009 Media Inquiries: Siobhan DeLancey, 202-510-4177, siobhan.delancey@fda.hhs.gov Consumer
Inquiries: 888-INFO-FDA
FDA: Adulterated Animal Feed Seized 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
"The FDA will not tolerate a company’s failure to
adequately control and prevent filth in its facility,” said Michael Chappell,
the FDA’s acting associate commissioner for regulatory affairs. “The FDA is
prepared to use whatever legal means are necessary and appropriate to keep
potentially contaminated products out of the marketplace.”
During 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.
Acting on a warrant issued by the
U.S. District Court in the Eastern District of Kentucky, marshals seized all
F DA-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.
Bi-County manufactures feed and stores
commercial feeds received through interstate commerce. The products are sold
locally to farms and stables. The products sold by Bi-County
include:
15% Hog Grower & Finisher Feed Agriflex Betonite AIM
Magnesium Oxide 56% Barley Flakes Beef, Land O’Lakes Steak Maker
Grower Bi-County 17% Layer Mash Bi-County Coop Farm Ration Bi-County
Coop Ground Shell Corn Bi-County Feed Oats Bi-County Shell
Corn Bi-County Super 12 Plus Bio-Cube Alfalfa Cubes Calf Manna, Manna
Pro Cattle Mineral Triple Trust Champions Choice Mix-N-Fine
Salt Champions Choice Trace Mineral Salt Coastal Brand Poultry
Shell Country Acres Horse Feed Crimped Oats Diamond Crystal Pellets,
water softener Diamond Yeast Culture Equine Merit Horse
Balancer Farmer’s Friend Vitamin A, D & E Feed Grade Sodium
Bicarbonate Gran-I-Grit, Mt. Airy insoluble Herd Maker Supreme High
Calcium Hydrated Lime HomeGrown Game Bird & Poultry Horsemans’s Edge
Pelleted Kemin Calcium Proprionate Land O’ Lakes Calf
Primer Layena Legends Grow & Perform Legends Racing
Textured Legends Show & Pleasure Limestone Calcium Carbonate Merry
Mixer Dehydrated Alfala Por k Supreme LG Premix 100/75 Purina Chow Turkey
Starter Purina Omalene 100 Purina Pig Startena Purina Start & Grow
Sunfresh Rabbit Pellets 25 lbs. Reliance Pleasure 11T Reliance Pleasure
HP S.S. Dairy 18% Supreme Dairy Scratch Feed Solvent Extracted Soybean
Meal Tizwhiz Train N Maintain Triple Crown Complete Triple Crown
Growth Triple Crown Senior Formula Triple Trust 20-15 Red Calf Manna Milk
Replacer Triple Trust Dried Molasses Triple Trust Feed Dicalium
Phosphate Triple Trust Horse Feed Triple Trust Rabbit Pellets Triple
Trust Textured Goat Feed Ultralyx Dried Distillers Grains
Purchasers
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.
James 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.
