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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More melamine contamination, but this time the products being recalled were made in Viet Nam, is this growing beyond products made in China? BD The Minnesota Department of Agriculture today advising consumers to throw out a brand of biscuits contaminated with melamine.The biscuits are under...
Hillary Clinton is not satisfied with the recent handling of the melamine situation and writes to Dr. Eschenbach to expand the efforts as more food products and items may still exist on store shelves. Again, I go back to what I have mentioned before, all food and drug products need to be labeled...
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...
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...
More chocolate woes, you know I think I’m going to give up chocolate all together. Between all the recalls on the melamine laced products and the fact that even here in the US, you don’t get real cocoa butter anymore in some of the products from Hersheys, but yet we get these reports that chocolate...
This story gets more worry some by the moment when you stop and think of where milk products are used. You see on the list some of our American branded products listed, manufactured outside the US, so this would indicate that even the company branding may not hold any value if a product is purchased...
First the milk and now cakes and candy, no word on whether or not we have the products here in the US. First stop for the FDA appears to be China, especially to ensure any type of food, toothpaste, etc. that is imported in to the US is not contaminated. We truly need the global efforts of...