Monday, April 30, 2007

Melamine

It's a bigger deal than first thought, apparently.  Not just animal feed; human food. Ugly story.  Where's the FDA been for the past decade and a half?


Melamine A Hot Commodity, Which Means This



It is widely used. And the practice of adding powdered and even scrap melamine to grain products—a cheap and only “mildy toxic” (!) way to artificially boost protein readings and market prices—did not become popular on a China-wide basis overnight, either.  We who live and dine in America might as well get used to the idea that we’ve probably already consumed an unidentified amount of melamine and, what’s more, that we may have been doing so for [...]


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