Comments on: Melamine in Milk

By: Barney

Barney — Sat, 04 Jul 2009 21:26:39 +0000

David,
thanks for keeping this website. It is a good informational source. However you seem to be attracting some conspiracy theorists and paranoids. The melamine problem appears to have been resolved. As I wrote a couple of years ago, I thought that it was a contaminant in the melamine that caused the problems, not the melamine itself. This theory is bolstered by the fact that melamine is more expensive per pound than real protein. I do not have references, but have heard in the chemical industry that cyanuric acid was likely the major contaminant.
And no, Huntsman does not make melamine. There is no conspiracy by President Obama or even ex vice President Dick Chaney.

By: David Bradley

David Bradley — Tue, 12 May 2009 16:20:02 +0000

What information do you actually need Peter, there is a lot on this site and more at the sites to which this and other melamine posts here link to

By: peter

peter — Tue, 12 May 2009 16:06:17 +0000

i need more information on melamine

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Mon, 27 Apr 2009 15:30:50 +0000

[...] in 2008, milk contaminated with industrial chemical melamine stirred up anger after causing the death of six children and widespread illness for some 300,000 [...]

By: rencie

rencie — Wed, 15 Apr 2009 04:20:45 +0000

well i would like to ask more about melamine? how does it affect us? what measures can u give to mentain gud health? and what milk products have you tested positive and negative from melamine? thank and i will wait for the answer…

By: David Bradley

David Bradley — Fri, 20 Feb 2009 08:03:53 +0000

Maria, while the scandal may have been exposed only recently, it’s not yet known how long the perpetrators were adding melamine to milk products, but are you suggesting that it has been happening for many years? If so, on what basis, and why have we not seen effects on the wider population?

By: Maria G,Overton

Maria G,Overton — Thu, 19 Feb 2009 23:37:48 +0000

It appears that I had been taking melamine in one or the two type of milk I drank all my life:Powered and non fat canned milk. I did not realized it, first because I don’t drink my milk by itself, and also I don;t drink so much, but suddenly my kidneys filter stopp working, I am in Canada, so my doctor did not understand and did not know why or what to do. what I made it worse is that I am diabetic. I was left inmy own, and I had to seek help from Madrid Clinical hospitals, through their different webs and got basic information and advise. I got myself off of those milks,sodium sugar substitutes,any canned food, cold cuts,just I went into an hyposodium diet and increase,almost double my liquid intake.It took most than six weeks for my kidneys to go back to work and I start topass some type of blue sand and what looked like plastic residuoms. I passed a complain to the food inspections, and still having the milk whatever it appear that in Canada only two laboratories are able to test for melamine .
The fact is that probbaly it took more than one year for my body to react, I wonder how many other people around the world are suffering symptoms,like itching,back pains, urinary problems, slow rising of the blook pressure, and no they or their doctor could pinpoint the cause.
As it appears now, we are risking to have melamine in about everything, flours, soups,cookies, bread…and there is not a fast way of tasting it.
I read in a web some thing that just shook me,”Melamine does not cause the same effect in meat, but gives it flavor and a exciting blue color:”
Only I have to ask a question”With those p[eople WHO NEEDS TERRORISTS?
MARIA GUERRA oVERTON

By: David Bradley

David Bradley — Thu, 29 Jan 2009 07:48:03 +0000

Yes, I think I mentioned that point in one of the follow-up articles. Trouble is analysing for protein directly would be slightly trickier and more costly…so a proxy test was used, no one suspected that anyone would spoof such a test using an organic monomer

By: Filippo Radicati

Filippo Radicati — Wed, 28 Jan 2009 23:46:00 +0000

One thing the article should point out explicitly is that melamine can fool the tests BECAUSE the tests were designed to measure elemental nitrogen as a proxy for protein, cheaper and quicker. If the tests called for the measurement of protein, not nitrogen, melamine contamination would have been caught much sooner.

By: David Bradley

David Bradley — Fri, 23 Jan 2009 08:30:05 +0000

Thanks for the link I *had* reported this in the latest melamine milk update on Sciencebase.