PetScoop: Home Test for Melamine Pet Food Contamination in the Works

Christie Keith at Pet Connection reports that a home testing kit has been developed for the pet food contaminate melamine:

If the FDA won't test food imports for melamine contamination, should we start doing it ourselves?

Joy Drawdy, owner of Gainesville's Earth Pets Natural Pet Market, thinks so, and so she developed a home melamine test kit:

"Pet owners should have a way to test their food at home. People coming into Earth Pets kept saying something like this was needed. I started trying to find one, but none existed," Drawdy said. "In the past year, using my knowledge of pet food manufacturing and contaminant testing, I developed one. I have it patented and it's done. I just need to get it marketed."

Projected availability for this test is late spring 2009.

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