Two Chinese businesses and their top executives and a U.S. company and its owners were indicted by a federal grand jury in Kansas City on Wednesday for their alleged roles in manufacturing and importing a tainted ingredient used to make pet food, believed to have sickened and killed pets across the country.
The indictments, handed down by a federal grand jury in Kansas City, alleged the defendants were involved in bringing more than 800 metric tons of wheat gluten tainted with dangerous melamine into the United States between November 6, 2006 and February 21, 2007 for use in pet food.
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