WASHINGTON – Two federal agencies said Saturday a continuing investigation affirms that the risk to humans from hogs that may have eaten contaminated pet food is very low and that no recall is warranted.
The government said last week that 345 of 6,000 hogs that may have eaten the food are believed to have gone to slaughter, but that almost all are still on farms in California, New York and South Carolina. Those states were told that no meat from any of those hogs can enter the food supply.
Salvaged pet food from companies known or suspected of using a tainted ingredient was shipped to hog farms in several states for use as feed.
Workers digging at the future site of a Wal-Mart store in Mesa have unearthed the bones of a prehistoric camel that’s estimated to be about 10,000 years old. “There’s no question that this is a camel; these creatures walked the land here until about 8,000 years ago, when the same event that wiped out a great deal of mammal life took place,” Arizona State University geology museum curator Brad Archer told The Arizona Republic.
Kent State University plans to remember the victims of the Virginia Tech massacre along with the four anti-war protesters shot and killed by Ohio National Guard troops during its annual memorial this week. The May 4 anniversary of the 1970 killings is marked each year by vigils and speeches and the tolling of the campus Victory Bell. This year, it also will ring for each of the 32 students killed on April 16 by a gunman at Virginia Tech.
A small group of student protesters, including one wearing a black hood and an orange jumpsuit, heckled Attorney General Alberto Gonzales as he posed with old classmates Saturday during their 25-year Harvard Law School reunion. “When the photographer was getting everybody set up and having people say ‘cheese,’ the protesters yelled: ‘say torture, instead,’ ‘resign’ and ‘I don’t recall,’” said Nate Ela, a protester and third-year student.
A badly hurt woman spent two days inside her partially submerged sport utility vehicle before a passing motorist spotted the wreck in a pond, authorities said. Jennifer Bova, 21, was airlifted to a hospital Friday after a state trooper found her seriously injured inside the 1991 Chevrolet Suburban near Richmond Township. She was in critical condition Saturday, a hospital spokeswoman said.
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