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Here is another brilliant FDA ruling, from 1995, regarding the diet of pigs. In

all their majestic wisdom, these government idiots, have determined just how

much mold poison they can force down the throats of pigs, without the pig

refusing to eat his feed, or vomiting it up. They decided that pigs, being a

very intelligent animal, would only accept half as much poison in their feed as

other animals will accept.

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CVM Deems Products with Detectable Levels of DON Safe

Results of a survey conducted by FDA's Center for Veterinary Medicine to

detect deoxynivalenol (DON) levels in wheat and wheat by-products intended for

animal feed found a " majority of products " contained detectable levels, but all

represented products that can be " safely used " in feed.

Following a season of " unusually heavy rainfall " in the Midwest in 1993, which

resulted in some wheat crops becoming " heavily contaminated " with DON, the

center updated its advisory levels to 1 ppm in finished wheat products; 10 ppm

on grain and grain by-products; 5 ppm on grain and grain by-products for swine,

with DON-contaminated products not to exceed 20% of diet; and 5 ppm on grain and

grain by-products for all other animals, with the contaminated grain not to

exceed 40% of diet. DON is a tricothecene mycotoxin known to cause feed refusal

and emesis in swine, CVM noted, and outbreaks of DON-associated acute

gastrointestinal illness in humans have also been reported.

REF: Food Chemical News 36(50), Feb 6, 1995.