[USCC] Recalled Pet Food

[epsteinee@comcast.net]

Hi Sharon,

I would expect that most or all of the compounds would be degraded in composting and would no impact the product. Is there any way to find out what the compounds were? My understanding it was rat poison and plastic. The rat poison would degrade, the plastic may or may not partially degrade.

Eliot 

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