Itchmo Safety Alert: Melamine spiking widespread going on for years

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Apr 29, 2007 1:18 PM

Itchmo Safety Alert: Melamine spiking widespread going on for

years

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Full details:

http://www.itchmo.com/read/melamine-spiking-in-food-widespread-for-years_2007042\

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We will just let the story speak for itself. No more denials, no more

hemming and hawing by the FDA. Time to take massive cautionary action is

now. It's not just animal feed anymore. It's not just pet food. It's a

crisis. It's been going on for years.

 

Highlights below from the IHT article:

 

   Here at the Shandong Mingshui Great Chemical Group factory, huge

boiler vats are turning coal into melamine, which is used to create

plastics and fertilizer.

 

   But the leftover melamine scrap, small acorn-sized chunks of

white rock, is then being sold to local entrepreneurs, who say they

secretly mix a powdered form of the scrap into animal feed to

artificially enhance the protein level.

 

   " It just saves money, " says a manager at an animal feed factory

here. " Melamine scrap is added to animal feed to boost the protein

level. "

 

   The practice is widespread in China. For years animal feed

sellers have been able to cheat buyers by blending the powder into feed

with little regulatory supervision, according to interviews with

melamine scrap traders and agricultural workers here.

 

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