Comments on: Melamine Contaminated Food List

By: Carol Blair

Carol Blair — Fri, 29 May 2009 11:53:02 +0000

The Cadbury bars we get here are made at the Hersey Plant (it’s the recipe that’s UK) in the US. I do hope that it means that there is no melamine in my chocolate.

By: David Bradley

David Bradley — Fri, 23 Jan 2009 19:03:23 +0000

I thought Sanlu had a New Zealand parent company, not US? Oh, dontcha just love a conspiracy theory?

By: Dr.DamLamLaBam

Dr.DamLamLaBam — Fri, 23 Jan 2009 18:39:10 +0000

huge American corporations are using slave labor in China to up their profit margins into the stratosphere,creating a people to blame while they manufacture poisoned foods for the Chinese to die on and importing these same foods to up the protein quotient, so that our children may be poisoned as well.

By: Gail Wahlstrom

Gail Wahlstrom — Thu, 15 Jan 2009 04:41:28 +0000

Are snickers and m&m’s contaminated?

By: Catherine

Catherine — Mon, 22 Dec 2008 03:31:58 +0000

Are gold coins made in netherlands by Steenland chocolate B.V. okay to eat??

By: Charla

Charla — Fri, 28 Nov 2008 03:54:34 +0000

The obvious question to me is why are melamine and melamine scrap being put into milk and animal feed? What we are seeing here is not just accidental leaching of this substance, whether the particular form is toxic or not, into the food supply, but an intentional addition of it to “cut” the milk with a cheap “filler.” And why not just use US and Canadian milk suppliers who have a high quality product? Just go on the website tradekey.com and look at all the offerings of milk products of Chinese origin at CHEAP prices. That is the source of the problem here—people who are willing to cut corners on quality and safety to make more profit on their product. It comes down to a question of ETHICS.

I shop locally at farmers markets, where I often buy better quality for less than supermarket prices. For items I buy in supermarkets, I do my homework and purchase brands that have consistently offered high quality and are healthy. This usually means I do not buy mainstream commercial brands for my family. Even within the “natural foods” industry there are now questionable companies buying up smaller, profitable natural companies. Find out more at cornucopia.org.

Money is power. Be willing to do homework on brands you buy and use your dollars to vote for a better quality life.

By: David Bradley

David Bradley — Wed, 26 Nov 2008 15:20:56 +0000

@BabyKramer – melamine monomer is not actually particularly toxic.

By: baby kramer

baby kramer — Wed, 26 Nov 2008 12:38:52 +0000

what you say is true. but it is unacceptable to hear comments on the news whrein they actually do say that some melamine contamination are in levels known not to cause any harm… Now why should there be even any levels at all. If you say carry over from containers or trays etc.. that would be so miniscule it would not even be detected. but for some products to be considered accetable because they have only 1% melamine is totally out of the question. and as per the big industries NEstle etc. they knew what they were putting into their products. 5 years from now when all this bruhaha has died down whats to say the chinese or others they wont be up to same antics again? as far back as i can recall, here in asia the chinese m erchants are always being accused of diluting or falsifying products….. (meat in buns not real meat, etc. ) pirated discs, fake bags etc….etc…. etc…..

By: David Bradley

David Bradley — Wed, 26 Nov 2008 10:42:43 +0000

It’s impossible to specify something as pure. There is always going to be contamination even if that is at the parts per trillion level and below. A factory may have a line that has a melamine polymer component, a sorting tray perhaps, so there could be minute amounts of melamine leached from the equipment with use that makes its way into the product. Setting a safety limit means that the QC/QA guys can check for levels above what is safe. It’s not to give manufacturers permission to deliberately add the stuff, but to give them reasonable testing limits.

By: Geoff

Geoff — Wed, 26 Nov 2008 10:38:36 +0000

Thanks, David, for posting this article and to the others who have already submitted comments.

My question is, why are “safe” limits for melamine set? Why should there be any melamine in our foods? When reports like that seen today of “trace” amounts found in US baby formula are issued, it downplays the fact that melamine is, in fact, present.

Perhaps someone could explain why we should tolerate ANY melamine being added to our food?