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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Scientists at Guelph’s University, Canada, have discovered a chemical process that may explain how cats and dogs were sickened and killed by melamine-contaminated pet food in March 2007.

Only when this mechanism is elucidated we can be 100% certain that melamine is indeed the cause. Though melamine has been proven toxic in rodent experiments, levels of this substance found in the dog food samples were very low (below what is considered toxic for rodents). This was quite puzzling and demanded for an explanation.

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