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Canada Free Press: ChemNutra sliding off radar screen?

"Even with no conclusive answers from the Food and Drug Association (FDA) on which particular poison is sickening what respectable veterinarian associations claim could be "thousands" of pets, ChemNutra, the U.S. company that imported the tainted wheat gluten from China seems to have disappeared off the radar screen.
All questions to ChemNutra are now being fielded by Stern and Company, a Las Vegas-based public relations firm.
Pet owners emailing Canada Free Press (CFP) complain that their questions are met with the same response: "What is the purpose of this query?"
PR flaks are paid to protect clients but the silence from ChemNutra CEO Stephen S. Miller and his wife Sally Qing Miller is deafening.
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Why haven’t the Millers been called to testify at Senator Dick Durbin’s Subcommittee on Agriculture, World Development, Food and Drug Administration and Related Agencies in Washington, D.C.?
Stephen Miller includes E.F. Hutton & Company and Smith Barney as former employers on the ChemNutra website.
Once the respected second largest brokerage firm in the United States, E.F. Hutton & Co. went down in flames.
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"It was not until the president of the brokerage firm, Scott Pierce (the brother of Barbara Bush, wife of then-vice-president of the U.S.) entered his corporation’s guilty plea to 2000 criminal counts of federal mail and wire fraud in 1985, that the Hutton conglomerate fell apart."
Could it be that former Hutton vice president, ChemNutra’s Stephen S. Miller has FDA protection that originates from the highest office of the land?"

I picked up the Chicago Sun times a couple of months ago and read an article about cronyism and the Roti family in Chicago, with a detailed family tree and a list of city jobs and salaries that had been given to family members. I wonder if anyone's done anything this detailed with the Bush family's cronies, except instead of getting jobs as street pavers they're running government departments or getting sweet deals at the corporations they run.

Update:
WaPo: FDA Was Aware of Dangers To Food
"The Food and Drug Administration has known for years about contamination problems at a Georgia peanut butter plant and on California spinach farms that led to disease outbreaks that killed three people, sickened hundreds, and forced one of the biggest product recalls in U.S. history, documents and interviews show.
Overwhelmed by huge growth in the number of food processors and imports, however, the agency took only limited steps to address the problems and relied on producers to police themselves, according to agency documents.
Congressional critics and consumer advocates said both episodes show that the agency is incapable of adequately protecting the safety of the food supply.
FDA officials conceded that the agency's system needs to be overhauled to meet today's demands, but contended that the agency could not have done anything to prevent either contamination episode"

So the FDA doesn't want to regulate our food, the EPA doesn't want to regulate our air, who else isn't doing their job?