Six hundred dollars later – after an exhaustive battery of blood-tests and a heavy-duty regimen of a half-dozen prescription medications including, inexplicably, antibiotics – weird if the culprit is truly a Chinese melamine additive as the Feds maintain – Murray has a new leash on life. When you think about it, the current pet-food contamination scare is a colossal and tragic betrayal of public trust no mere product recall can ever begin to correct. Swiss experts recently revealed that well over half of all mineral oils used in the production of chicken feed exceed Swiss safety limits between 10 and 100 times. The EU does not have any safety limit for oils, but since the majority of the EU's and Switzerland's animal feed is imported from similar sources, the Swiss experts suggest that Europe's situation is likely to be as serious as Switzerland's. Read More

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