Indictments Handed Down in Tainted Pet Food Scandal
By Dan Shapley
Three businesses and their owners have been indicted by a federal grand jury today, meaning they will face trials over allegations related to the melamine-tainted pet food that sickened pets throughout the United States last year.
The Food and Drug Administration made the announcement, labeling it a "scheme to import products purported to be wheat gluten into the United States that were contaminated with melamine. These products were used to make pet food."
Named in two separate but related indictments are:
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Xuzhou Anying Biologic Technology Development Co., LTD., a Chinese processor and exporter of plant proteins, and Mao Linzhun, its owner and manager.
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Suzhou Textiles, Silk, Light Industrial Products, Arts and Crafts I/E Co. LTD., a Chinese export broker, and Chen Zhen Hao, its president.
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ChemNutra, Inc., a Las Vegas, Nevada corporation that buys food and food components from China to sell to U.S. companies in the food industry, and its owners, Sally Qing Miller and her husband, Stephen S. Miller. Sally Q., a Chinese national, is the controlling owner and president; Stephen S. is an owner and CEO.
The 27-count indictments charge all three companies and four individuals with delivering adulterated food that contained melamine, which is believed to have sickened pets, and related offenses. Here is how the FDA described the indictments:
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