Recall expanded to some dry cat food
(AP)
<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/health/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070331/ap_on_go_ot/pet_food_recall"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/rids/20070330/i/r4182817298.jpg?x=130&y=92&sig=yPNWUQ4CPDpxgmTsf8c_Eg--" align="left" height="92" width="130" alt="Veterinarian Tara Montgomery examines "Digit" in her Mississauga clinic March 30, 2007. U.S. officials said on Friday that melamine, a chemical used in fertilizers in Asia and forbidden in pet food, has been detected in the wheat gluten used by Canada-based Menu Foods. Menu Foods Income Fund said it is no longer using the Chinese company that supplied tainted wheat gluten after the chemical melamine was detected on Friday in the pet food at the center of a massive recall. REUTERS/J.P. Moczulski (CANADA)" border="0" /></a>AP - Federal testing of recalled pet foods turned up a chemical used to make plastics but failed to confirm the presence of a cancer drug also used as rat poison. The recall expanded Friday to include the first dry pet food.</p><br clear="all"/>

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