Anxious pet owners swamped Orange County animal hospitals with calls and concerns after a nationwide recall of 60 million containers of tainted dog and cat food. A tag cloud is a visual list of key terms associated with a piece of content. Anaheim resident Carmen Cruz said her 13-year-old cat, Princess, stopped eating two weeks ago and quickly dropped from 10 to 4 pounds. To see a list of items associated with a particular tag, click on the tag below. to sleep because her kidneys failed...

In the last two weeks, two chemical contaminants have been identified in the recalled food: melamine, which is used as a fertilizer in Asia, and aminopterin, a rat poison banned in the United States. Menu Foods has confirmed 16 deaths, compared to anecdotal reports attributing hundreds, if not thousands, of deaths to the 95 brands recalled in the U. Since Menu Foods recalled 60 million cans and pouches of moist cat and dog food, eight area pet owners - including Brehmer - notified the...

The system injects liquid urea into the vehicle's exhaust stream, where it breaks down nitrogen oxide into harmless nitrogen and water without diminishing engine performance or fuel efficiency. The company, based in Fullerton, California, retrofits large diesel-powered vehicles such as garbage trucks and off-road construction equipment with a system that cuts smog-causing emissions by as much as 90 percent. For the power technology, he licensed a prototype and focused on developing...

Volatile fuel and fertilizer prices, national security threats, economic instability and global warming are just some of the challenges we face because of our dependence on oil and other fossil fuels. So we must rely on foreign energy sources, many of them from unstable or hostile regimes, to provide us with our economic lifeblood and quality of life. Our ability to heat our homes, run our cars to get us to work, operate our industry, grow our food and even power our military depends on a...

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