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(HealthDay News) -- Low doses of melamine did not cause severe kidney problems in children exposed to the industrial chemical during the recent tainted milk scandal in China, Hong Kong researchers report.The study is one of the first to measure the health impact of exposure to low doses of melamine, which was added to infant formula and other foods in mainland China to boost their protein content

The FDA has set standards for acceptable levels of melamine in baby formula. And guess what? It isn't zero. When it was being found in foreign-made formula, the FDA said there is no safe level. Now that it's been found in 90% of US formula, they have seemingly arbitrarily decided that a little plastic in formula is OK. With no new data.Who is the FDA protecting? Formula makers? The dairy industry?

This just makes me sick.

Did you know that the word melamine is now used by children’s conversation today? It happens whenever they don’t want to share their toys with their playmates. Yes, I was shocked upon hearing those words from a child near me busy playing with his Yo-Yo. I was with my friend then when it happened when [...]

We’ve talked about the pervasive industrial chemical melamine appearing in Chinese food – from its domestic supplies of milk to its exports of wheat gluten found anywhere from pet food to chicken feed. We’ve also covered how new tracking measures are being implemented to improve food safety (see New Tracing System To Improve Safety of [...]

News quickly spread across the globe about the hazardous effects of melamine especially those contents that were discovered in Chinese milk products. Dairy products and especially infant milks were the major goods that are said to have contained this unhealthy substance. This wide-spreading catastrophe that hits the world particularly on 54,000 children in China was now considered as one big t

Sickening of 54,000 and more infants blamed the milk powder contaminated with milk in mainland china. Manufacturing of plastics, fertilizer, paint and adhesives are the common uses of Melamine. It is also added to dairy products to make it more nutritious. Based on experts ingesting small amount of melamine poses no danger, but if in larger doses, the chemical will case problem in kidney like the

China milk poisoning incidents make everyone afraid to look at the daily news report. Everyday, the reports are changing. No one can clearly tell us what to eat and not to eat. 1.What really is poisoned milk？ -It is the milk powder mixed with "MELAMINE" 2. What is Melamine use for？ -It is an industrial chemical use in the production of melawares -It is also used in home deco

A friend forwarded this email to me. I thought I need to share this because you might have questions regarding the poisoning of most dairy products with melamine and what we need to do about it.China milk poisoning incidents make everyone afraid to look at the daily news report. Everyday, the reports are changing. No one can clearly tell us what to eat and not to eat.1. What really is poisoned mil

If proven in the test being conducted by BFAD. The biscuit will be officially banned.On the otherhand, DepEd Officials in regional and provincial offices are encourage to patrol school canteens to enforce a ban on a biscuit product that tested positive for melamine in Hong Kong.Sam Nielsen of Radio dzBB's reported that the Department of Education (DepEd) will formalize an order banning the ce

With all this Melamine scare on milk formula, and getting another brand on the list of those that are found to be positive every so often, what mother would not be concerned. When I read from this AskDrSears.com article that goat’s milk is so much better than cow’s milk, I just knew I had [...]

USA Food Supply May be Tainted? . . . Halloween Candy? COMMENT • SHARE • RATE • FAVORITE • SPREAD THE WORD! Are the Foods we eat TAINTED By Melamine and Other Toxins added to China Milk Powder Supplies? An Investigative News Report by Mike Mozart of JeepersMedia on You Tube. Is the FDA Covering up this for Political Election Reasons?Link to NEW YORK TIMES ARTICLE ABOUT SUDDEN RISE IN KIDNE

Milk products allegedly containing Melamine continue to scare people especially in China. According to reports, other products was also mentioned like buscuits, chocolates even cosmetic products. This incident make everyone afraid to look at the daily news report. News are changing and people are asking what to eat and not eat. Let us first define [...]

Environmental health administrator Tom Nadeau of the Department of Public Health in Hong Kong found melamine, the industrial chemical linked to the deaths of four Chinese babies, in three samples of Lotte China Foods Co. biscuits.Lotte Koala strawberry, chocolate and chocolate-filled biscuits were found "unsatisfactory" after testing, Hong Kong's Centre for Food Safety said in a statement on the g

With the recent scare of melamine content on milk and milk products alike. Like you I’m also searching for a list of products that are melamine free. Today I finally got them and I would like to share it with you.

With the recent scare of melamine content on milk and milk products alike. Like you I’m also searching for a list of products that are melamine free. Today I finally got them and I would like to share it with you. I’m going to update as a new batch is announced. Here is the official list of melamine free products.

Melamine is being blamed for the death of 1,500 raccoon dogs in China. Raccon dogs are actually wild animals, resembling raccoons, that are bred for their fur. BEIJING (AP) — Some 1,500 dogs bred for their raccoon-like fur have died after eating feed tainted with melamine, a veterinarian said Monday, raising questions about how widespread the [...]

One of the world's largest chocolate makers, Britain's Cadbury, has become the latest victim of China's tainted milk scandal, ordering a recall of its Chinese-made products after questionable findings in tests.Two U.S. food makers, meanwhile, were investigating Indonesian claims that high traces of the industrial chemical melamine had been found in Chinese-made Oreos, M&Ms and Snickers, but st

Postbag and some respondents seem to have lost sight of the issue with the melamine threat. Beneficial or not, a large number of people in Thailand drink milk and eat foods with dairy content. These people have been exposed to the chemical melamine which is a proven health risk in sufficient quantities, and the question is: has the Thai government acted in a manner that protects these consumers?Th

The Nation reports that the FDA (Food and Drug Administration) today found high levels of melamine in unsweetened condensed skimmed milk with palm oil formula produced by The Thai Dairy Industry, under the Mali brand."The FDA said the manufacturing lot of milk, which carries the expiry date of January 16 2009, was found to be contaminated with melamine at the rate of 92.82 milligram per kilogram.F

As a chemical that inflates the reading of protein levels, especially in baby formula milk, to know that it is used "in fire retardants in polymer resins" sounds unsafe already. It is not food. And it is definitely not for babies.I'm not much of a milk drinker myself these days, but when my brothers and I were younger, Ma would usually have us down a glass before we sleep. I think I have read e

Computers normally originate from Taiwan but that is perhaps only borders away from China. China, a country now famous for scandals such as recalls and melamine infestation, may also be tagged as contributors to technology. Why? Food is certainly one of the leading products that China has been criticized over the past months but lately [...]

(Update 3) DOH clears 21 dairy products of melamine contamination--------------------------------------------------------------------------------The Department of Health (DOH) on Wednesday said a China-made product, Jolly Cow Slender High Calcium Low Fat Milk (1 liter), had tested positive for melamine, while clearing 21 other dairy products.Health Secretary Francisco Duque said authorities have b

Today, Health Secretary Francisco Duque announced that Jolly Cow Slender High Calcium Low Fat Milk (1 liter), a product of People’s Republic of China (PROC), had tested positive for melamine which is locally distributed by Flying Ace Corporation. It had a melamine level of 4 parts per million. Melamine is not allowed as a food additive in any food product, DOH said. On the other hand, Secret

Since melamine has set off a global food safety scare, the consuming public has raised the health concerns of most foods tainted with the chemical.

Melamine scare is now a worldwide concern and a lot of food and drugs bureau had formed together to seemingly indicate that they are threatening to do more actions for a possibility to totally ban all products from China. These are just unconfirmed rumors but I think this is possible because of the multiple danger [...]

An official news organization is reporting that the industrial chemical melamine has been found in another 31 brands of Chinese milk powder.The results indicate an expansion in the scandal that has sparked product recalls in China and a host of other countries that received Chinese food exports from infant formula to chocolate.Results of earlier tests had showed widespread melamine contamination a

Hong Kong authorities says tests have showed the amount of melamine in Britain's Cadbury chocolate and cookies exceed a safe level for human consumption.The two contaminated samples announced Sunday are among a list of 11 Chinese-made products being recalled in parts of Asia and the Pacific by the British candy maker.The center says samples of the brand's Dairy Milk Cookies Chocolate and Dair

The Department of Health on Friday said Green Food Yili Pure Milk and Mengniu Original Drink Milk from China have both tested positive for melamine contamination.Updated LIST:DOH head Duque identified the products that have been tested and FOUND NEGATIVE for melamine. 1. Anchor Lite Milk 2. Anlene High calcium low fat milk UHT 3. Bear Brand instant4. Chic Choc milk chocolate5. Farmland skim milk6.

Bureau of Food and Drugs (BFAD) announced last week that more than 50 milk products will be tested for the presence of melamine .  BFAD and DOH on Friday said that two of the 30 milk brands so far tested were found positive for melamine . Health Secretary Francisco Duque III identified Green Food Yili Pure [...] No related posts.

I love sweets: chocolate, candies, cake and other form of comfort foods is always welcome on my budget. Lately, my friends and I are discussing the China dairy scandal and the precautions to be done. The scandal have spread, traces of melamine were also found not only on infant formula manufactured in china but also on other dairy-based products. Cadbury recalled some of its product in Asia

Tainted Milk products has taken a magnanimous proportions in China after another 31 products are found to be tainted with Melamine. This is something like mixing poison with food products and this has happened for quite a long time, with so many widespread cases reported across the mainland China, so far according to a CNN report1.4 children died,2.Kidney ailments among 54000 children reported3.13

By Lisa Wade McCormickConsumerAffairs.comCandy-maker says U.S.-made products are untaintedThe Hershey Company, which manufactures and sells Cadbury chocolates in the United States, said it does not buy powered milk or other milk ingredients from China."All Hershey products use the highest-quality ingredients and are completely safe," the candy giant said in a written statement. "This includes Cadb

Monde Nissin is a webhosting client of Bitstop Network Service. Here is their statement about the melamine scare hitting the Philippines: In light of the recent issue concerning melamine, please be assured that all milk ingredients used in the production of our goods (noodles, biscuits, Dutch Mill) are sourced from Thailand, New Zealand, Australia, Canada and the USA. We do not source any milk pr

Although this is a blog about computer and internet stuff, my social responsibility dictates me to post this article. - CBI was able to watch the evening news over TV Patrol World where I got the information that the Philippine Bureau of Food and Drugs (BFAD) posted on its website www.bfad.gov.ph a partial list of milk and other milk products they collected for testing for the presence of Melamine

China has once again literally made herself a household name, just over a month after the devastatingly controversial-laden Beijing 2008 Olympics ended. This time it’s due to some chemical substance found in a common but very important household item that has been causing the loss of lives among some significant number of infants and serious [...]

image by *superhoop* I don't blame anyone in Singapore for being a little confused about what is safe to eat/drink and what is not during the current tainted-milk scandal. I am more than a little confused and concerned myself. It is all well and good to avoid milk products from China, but how can we be sure that Malaysian and Indonesian products don't contain ingredients from China? There has been

Berita menyedihkan dari negeri tirai bambu begitu menghentak, dimana setelah gelaran Olimpiade ditutup tersibaklah tragedi kemanusiaan yang sangat hebat. Ribuan bayi di Cina terkontaminasi melamine dari susu yang mereka minum dengan korban sejauh ini 4 bayi meninggal. Hal ini menjadi sebuah tragedi yang disengaja karena disinyalir pemasok susu mentah sebelum dikirim ke pabrik susu telah [...]

The Epoch Times Sep 17, 2008 This 15-month-old child developed kidney stones from contaminated baby formula. (China Photos/Getty Images) Melamine, a banned chemical, was discovered in infant milk formula produced by 22 dairy companies nationwide during a inspection of 109 Chinese diary companies, according to a September 16 report from Xinhua Net. According to the report, China’s General [...]

It’s babies. ABCNews is reporting today that melamine-tainted baby formula in China has sickened 6200 babies, hospitalized 1300, and killed three.   Dozens are suffering from acute kidney failure.  It took three to six months for the symptoms to appear, slow poisoning.  The numbers are expected to rise.  China is dispatching 5,000 inspectors.  Why?  Because testing showed that 20 pe

The Sanlu Group is a joint venture partly owned by New Zealand dairy giant Fonterra. So it is not a small companies and people trust the products...

Meal time with your kids can be frustrating so put some fun into this important family time with adorable dish sets for babies and kids. These ceramic and melamine dish sets offer easy cleaning and durability. The kids ceramic dinnerware sets are keepsake quality! These dish sets make great baby shower and toddler gifts.These adorable dishes are the perfect feeding set for you baby and child! Choo

Pure melamine is a kind of plastic composed of alfa cellulose melamine crystal, and formaldehyde solvent. Normally, melamine is in powder form and is absolutely harmless to health. It was used to produce kitchen utensils and tableware such as plates, bowls, cups, spoons and the likes.

For her science fair project, a seventeen year old high school student from Mississippi developed a faster, less expensive way to detect chemicals such as melamine & cyanuric acid in pet (and other) food. Natalie Saranga Omattage won a $50,000 scholarship for her efforts. Last year, when cats and dogs in the United States started dying [...]

Yet more news about the “silent” pull of dog treats from Wal-Mart shelves. It turns out the jerkyy treats were indeed tainted with melamine. (emphasis is mine) Tests of two Chinese brands of dog treats sold at Wal-Mart stores found traces of melamine, a chemical agent that led to another massive pet food recall in March, a spokeswoman said Tuesday. Wal-Mart Stores Inc. quietly stopped selling Chicken Jerky Strips from Import-Pingyang Pet Product Co. and Chicken Jerky from Shanghai Bestro Trading in July, after customers said the products sickened their pets. No recall was announced at that time, but Wal-Mart said in a statement Tuesday that customers who bought one of the products should return it to the nearest store for a refund. Company spokeswoman Deisha Galberth said 17 sets of tests done on the products found melamine, a contaminant that’s a byproduct of several pesticides. “There were very small amounts of melamine found,” Galberth told The Associat

An overview of the European Commission shows that in the last week of July, multiple alerts of melamine contaminated feed have been reported. The Rapid Alert System for Food and Feed (RASFF) found contaminated rice protein in France, Greece, Spain and the UK - all imported from China. The Commission publishes a weekly overview of alert [...]

I picked up a copy of this month’s Animal Wellness Magazine to read an article that will completely shock you. “Neither melamine nor aminopterin are likely to be the real cause of the illness – the symptoms of toxicity don’t match either one,” says Dr. Jean Hofve, a nutritional expert and former advisor to the American Animal Feed Control Officials (AAFCO). “Toxicology data on melamine suggests that it can cause kidney stones and other chronic effects, but acute renal failure does not really accord with that. Some are calling

“If you don’t believe that dogs and cats are primarily meat eaters, you might as well click away now because you certainly won’t believe what follows.” — PetCenter.com, an Internet Animal Hospital Questions have come in to me about protein in dog and cat food. People are just now seeing the importance of reading their pet food labels and are questioning the use of corn and wheat in the first five ingredients. They are also trying to understand those protein percentages. I am not a veterinarian so I cannot advise but I can certainly share with you some great information. FIRST, let me say, if you have an animal with special medical needs, you MUST run your food choices by your veterinarian. MOST of those special needs pets cannot eat regular pet foods, not even the holistic pet foods. I’m sorry, they simply cannot. The protein, phosphorus, and even the fat content for many is way too high. This includes kidney problems, pancreatitis, and someti

One Chinese animal feed company told the Associated Press, “”We’ve been running the melamine feed business for about 15 years and receiving positive responses from our customers.” — CNN, 4/30/07 To which one can only ask:  Why? It adds no food value.  It is intentionally deceptive.  Why are you getting positive reponses from your customers?  Do they KNOW you are cheating them?  Or are they just thrilled to be getting what looks like a high protein content and you’re actually undernourishing their livestock? Don’t tell us your animals aren’t dying.  Even in the U.S., the actual death rate is very low.  Banfield estimated that it was only 3 in 1,000. It’s just that you’re not paying attention. The Safe Pet Food Blog IsYourPetFoodSafe.com

I didn’t think it was new. Ten years ago, one of my kitties went into sudden, acute kidney failure after eating a new food. I never thought it was one field, one farmer, one gluten producer, one time. I never even thought it was just animal feed. And frankly, I don’t think it’s just China. I was hugely disappointed to learn last week that the first adulteration of grains [with UREA, not melamine] happened with two guys right here in the U.S. 30 years ago. Just as with this current contamination, adulteration wasn’t done to IMPROVE protein content. It was done to make it LOOK like protein was better, to cut costs and make more MONEY. The New York Times and International Herald are reporting very big news this morning. ZHANGQIU, China: As American food safety regulators head to China to investigate how a chemical made from coal found its way into pet food that killed dogs and cats in the United States, workers in this heavily polluted northern city openly adm

FDA: Tainted Pet Food May Be Deliberate By Staff Apr 20, 2007The U.S. Food and Drug Administration said pet food protein imported from China could have had the toxin melamine deliberately added to boost protein levels.Dr. Stephen Sundlof, FDA chief veterinarian, told reporters melamine had been found in Chinese shipments of corn, wheat and rice gluten. “That melamine was found in all three of those, it would certainly lend credibility to the theory that this was intentional,” Sundlof said. Read the rest of the story here. Photo credit: High on Poker

Read the article from FDA Consumer Magazine 1990 that tells how two U.S. citizens spike wheat flour with UREA to boost the protein content and command a higher price. This food for for HUMAN consumption. They were fined $250K each but netted $250K on the deal. It’s horrifying enough to learn that China did it to our pets, but to learn THIS … Spiked wheat - Schuler Grain Co. uses additive to artificially boost the protein content of its wheat FDA Consumer, Dec, 1990 by Judy Folkenberg, Richard Nelson, Sharon Snider Spiked Wheat A tip from a disgruntled former employee of a large Minnesota grain company led to court-ordered heavy fines and probation for the owners last February. Schuler Grain Co. in Breckenridge, Minn., was using an additive to artificially boost the protein content of its wheat and thereby increases the price it brought on the market. Ultimately, the Schulers’ profit came out of the consumer’s pocket–for higher-priced baked goods a

A farm in western North Carolina has been quarantined after a chemical blamed for more than a dozen pet deaths was found in its hogs, state officials said Wednesday. None of the hogs has entered the...

The Associated Press put together an outstanding list of Questions and Answers, some of which I’ve excerpted here: Q: What chemical tainted the food? A: Traces of melamine, a nitrogen-rich chemical used in a variety of industrial processes, were found in the pet food. Its most common use is to make resins, which in turn can be molded into products like countertops and kitchen utensils, including plastic dinnerware sold as Melmac. It also is both a contaminant and byproduct of several pesticides, including cyromazine, according to the Environmental Protection Agency. Q: Is melamine toxic to animals? A: Melamine appears to have caused acute kidney failure in animals that have died or been sickened after eating foods laced with the chemical. Previously, the only known risk was to rodents. When fed to male rats in high doses, melamine indirectly caused tumors by forming stones that irritated the lining of the bladder, according to a 2002 United Nations Environmental Program report. T

The Sacramento Bee is reporting that the chemical linked to cat and dog deaths on two continents has made it into pig feed and perhaps onto California tables, with state agricultural officials announcing late Thursday they’ve quarantined a Ceres hog farm where lab tests showed melamine in pig urine. The hog feed apparently came from a pet food plant which had rejected the materials.  Here’s one more dirty secret of the pet food industry.  Grains that aren’t considered good enough for household pets go to hogs ’cause they’ll eat anything. Even Melamine. Lucky for the hogs, they appear to be perfectly healthy, according to State Veterinarian Dr. Richard Breitmeyer. Unluckily for the hogs, nobody’s going to want to buy them because nobody knows, yet, what happens when humans consume products that contain melamine. It should be noted that so far, only one pig farm has been identified as having been exposed to this ever-widing circle of melamine contami

While this is not a US Problem, YET, tests have confirmed that Vets Choice and Royal Canin dog and cat dry pet-food products contained corn gluten contaminated with melamine, says the manufacturer. The contaminated corn gluten was delivered to Royal Canin by a South African third-party supplier and appears to have originated from China. Posted on The Safe Pet Food Blog at http://safepetfood.wordpress.com Our recommended no corn, no wheat, no soy, no gluten holistic favorite: http://teresaholladay.com/recommends/samples/?diggsa read more | digg story

Breaking, breaking news… A top holistic brand, Natural Balance, just voluntarily recalled four products and confirmed that they found melamine in a US-supplied rice gluten. I’m guessing corn, wheat, and rice gluten providers have long known a “dirty industry secret” of making protein content appear higher and just finally got caught. read more | digg story Brought to you by The Safe Pet Food Blog, http://IsYourPetFoodSafe.com Comparison of ingredients and pricing of 11 brands: http://teresaholladay.com/recommends/compare

…In recent months, Xuzhou Anying appears to have posted several requests on online trading sites seeking to purchase large quantities of melamine.   Clues to pet food recall traced to Chinese city By David Barboza Wednesday, April 11, 2007   Brought to you first by the International Herald Tribune   XUZHOU, China: U.S. investigators looking into the tainted pet food that killed at least 16 cats and dogs, sickened thousands of pets and led to a recall in North America have traced the problem to this bustling eastern city. Xuzhou is the home of Xuzhou Anying Biologic Technology Development, a small agricultural products trader that U.S. regulators say was the source of the wheat gluten, distributed to major pet food suppliers in North America, that was at some point adulterated with a toxic chemical that sickened or killed the animals. Although U.S. and Chinese regulators are still investigating the matter, this city is already yielding clues about how th

The other day I noticed a pretty interesting situation. Crayon had somehow found its way out of its box in the closet and onto the wall in my kid’s room. It’s one of those times when you just don’t ask how it happened. Americans face these kinds of situations almost every day. The American Heart Association even keeps track of them. There are 72 million people in the United States age 20 and older with high blood pressure. And, between the years of 1994 and 2004 the actual number of deaths from high blood pressure rose 41.8 percent.They will tell you that the cause of most of the cases of high blood pressure in the US is not known. What they mean is no scientist wants to look like an idiot by saying the leading cause of high blood pressure in America is from the misuse of multicolored wax in a big yellow box.Anyway, part of the problem has been solved! The answer: a beautiful, white melamine foam called the Magic Eraser or the Ultimate Sponge. Basically, you get it wet and it wor

by TAN EE LYN HONG KONG — Hong Kong mother Shirley Lo stocked her refrigerator with soymilk and switched to buying imported chocolates for her son after melamine was found in baby formula and milk products in China. But when eggs from China tested positive for melamine in Hong Kong late last ...