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Author	Nestle, Marion.
Title	Pet food politics : the Chihuahua in the coal mine / Marion Nestle.
Imprint	Berkeley : University of California Press, c2008.

LOCATION	CALL #	STATUS	MESSAGE
OTTERBEIN MAIN COLLECTION	SF414 .N47 2008	AVAILABLE

Table of Contents
	Introduction	1
1	A Recall to Break All Records	9
2	A Brief Historical Digression	15
3	The Sequence of Events	27
4	What Is Menu Foods?	42
5	Menu's Muddled Response: What, When, and Where	50
6	The Cat and Dog Body Count	55
7	A Toxic False Alarm: Aminopterin	61
8	At Last the Culprit: Melamine	63
9	Melamine: A Source of Dietary Nitrogen	69
10	Melamine: A Fraudulent Adulterant, But Puzzling	77
11	How Much Melamine Was in the Pet Food?	81
12	Mystery Solved: Cyanuric Acid	83
13	The China Connection	88
14	More Melamine: Rice and Corn "Proteins"	97
15	More Melamine Eaters: Farm Animals and People	105
16	The FDA's Response	114
17	Repercussion #1: China's Food Safety System	123
18	Repercussion #2: The China Backlash	133
19	Repercussion #3: The FDA in Crisis	143
20	Repercussion #4: Pet Food Politics	156
App	The Melamine Recalls List	175
	Notes	181
	List of Tables and Figures	205
	Acknowledgments	207
	Index	209

Description	219 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.
Bibliography Note	Includes bibliographical references (p. 181-203) and index.
Subject	Pets -- Feeding and feeds -- Contamination -- United States.
	Product recall -- United States.
ISBN	9780520257818 (cloth : alk. paper)
	0520257812 (cloth : alk. paper)
OCLC #	192045493