Because the poultry being held have been fed adulterated products, USDA cannot knowingly approve products derived from these poultry for human consumption. Because there is no evidence of harm to humans associated with consumption of chicken fed the contaminated product, no recall of poultry products processed from these animals is being issued. At this time, the investigation indicates that approximately 30 broiler poultry farms and eight breeder poultry farms in Indiana received...

Food and Drug Administration to ban the use of leftover pet food in hog and chicken feed for fear it could spread mad cow disease because it contains cattle parts. Meat byproducts are also common; those are the parts left over after pigs, cattle or other animals are slaughtered and the meat removed for human consumption. Concerns over feeding and living conditions of livestock and poultry have helped fuel the growth of organic farming, which does not use meat byproducts and hormones in...

More Breaking News PHOTO OF THE DAY Chuck Crow/The Plain Dealer Grady Sizemore slides safely into 3rd base, stealing the bag underneath the legs of Baltimore Orioles 3rd baseman Melvin Mora during the first inning of the game at Jacobs Field Sunday, April 29, 2007. More Breaking News PHOTO OF THE DAY Chuck Crow/The Plain Dealer Grady Sizemore slides safely into 3rd base, stealing the bag underneath the legs of Baltimore Orioles 3rd baseman Melvin Mora during the first inning of the game at...

Hay, especially grass hay, produces heat when it is digested. Cattle feed can have higher mold content and other additives that horse feed should not contain. The horses in question had been fed bulk pellets labeled for cattle and other livestock, not horses. Although many grain supplements are labeled for more than one species of livestock, some grain supplements suitable for other livestock should not be fed to horses. Anytime you are feeding an animal, whether it's a household pet or...

Newswires As Grilling Season Gets Underway, Interest in Healthy Foods, Sustainable Ranching, Humane Treatment of Animals and Gourmet Ingredients Is Placing Grass Fed Beef Center Stage for Memorial Day La Cense Beef Offers Special Memorial Day BBQ Package to Introduce Grillers to the Grass Fed Trend By: Marketwire. Newswires As Grilling Season Gets Underway, Interest in Healthy Foods, Sustainable Ranching, Humane Treatment of Animals and Gourmet Ingredients Is Placing Grass Fed Beef Center...

The FDA believes the chemical melamine tainted rice protein used in the production of pet food and some of the pet food was used in animal feed. There are also suspicions that some of the contaminated pet food scraps may have been used in poultry feed produced Missouri which are still being investigated. Thousands of pigs suspected of eating the contaminated product have since been quarantined and the FDA says meat from the animals will be withheld from the food supply. The initial recall...