Melamine, a chemical used as a flame retardant is used to make cooking utensils and industrial coatings, is rich in nitrogen; it makes an attractive low-cost additive to milk and other foods; as nitrogen registers as protein on many routine tests . This is why it is so popular as at created the...
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It appears the melamine is in the feed that was fed to the chickens, so it makes one wonder how far does the melamine go and how far back can you track it. First it was the milk products with adding melamine to make the nutritional values look better and now it goes back to the feed given to the...
Some of the duties will be outsourced, but under the control of a local office, and portions of this provision will need an act of Congress, so I might guess now’s the time, or after the election maybe to tackle this issue. I would also like to see labels on every product stating the city, origin...
We still need more labeling and the ability for consumers to identify products when recalls are sent out. Look a the Heparin recall that failed, and that was a drug. In a recent post I had some suggestions that can be read here, including disallowing “blind” shipments so it’s not a rat race t find...