not reassuring
kutv.com - Tainted Gluten Almost Made It Into Human Food
While the public was focused on the danger to their pets, sources tell 2News that the Food and Drug Administrations had tracked at least one suspect batch of wheat gluten into the human food supply, quietly quarantined some products, and notified the Centers For Disease Control to watch for new patients admitted to hospitals with renal or kidney failure.Stephen Sundlof of the FDA Center for Veterinary Medicine says, “We didn’t know at the time whether or not wheat gluten had made it into the human food supply. We asked CDC to put a special emphasis on looking at increased incidence of renal failure in people.”
But there were no spikes in illnesses and the human food ultimately tested clean. The FDA tried to comfort congress today saying there’s “no evidence” any bad gluten got into human food, though the agency still doesn’t know where it all went.
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