By Rick Weiss
Washington Post Staff Writer
Friday, May 11, 2007; A10
American inspectors who arrived in China last week to investigate the two companies that exported tainted pet food ingredients found that the suspect facilities had been hastily closed down and cleaned up, federal officials said yesterday.
"There is nothing to be found. They are essentially shut down and not operating," said Walter Batts, deputy director of the Food and Drug Administration's office of international programs.
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Despite the revelations, officials sought yesterday to put a positive face on the two-month-old scandal, which includes the inadvertent sale of millions of chickens that ate the tainted feed and the ongoing quarantine of tens of thousands of hogs.
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Hundreds of tests on food products intended for humans have been negative for melamine, adding credence to the belief, Acheson said, that the chemical is present only in animal feeds.
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