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Default House Committee to Investigate Melamine-In-Food Fiasco

Steve Pope > wrote:

> The entire list (so far as I can tell at this stage) of foods
> and food ingredients to avoid is now the following:


<snip part of list>
> corn gluten
> corn gluten meal
> corn byproducts
> soy protein
> soy gluten proteins


I find it hard to believe that anyone imports any serious
quantities of either corn or soybean products into the USA.
Talk about carrying coals to Newcastle . . .

I suppose someone must be doing it, but it seems odd.
I'm pretty sure the US is the worlds largest producer
of both.

Bill Ranck
Blacksburg, Va.