What's with the Chinese and melamine? CNN just reported there's

[napi21]

some rabbit shaped chinese candy that is being recalled for containing melamine. That's the same junk that weas in the dog & cat food and so many other products from China! What's with that stuff?

[ddeclue]

1. Cause this is filler...filler yeah....

cue the MJ music...

:)

[CottonBear]

2. They add it to artificially inflate the protein levels in food products.

The tests show adequate protein levels but it is a false test result.

[damntexdem]

9. So who tests for the protein content of candy?

Infant formula is a different matter. But candy?

[juno jones]

10. It's in candy via powdered milk. n/t

[TomInTib]

3. If my memory serves me...

I believe it has something to do with skewing the nutritional analysis.

But then I could be (and usually am) way off the mark

[sam sarrha]

5. IT TRICKS THE MACHINE TO READ HIGHER PROTEIN

[angrycarpenter]

4. It fools a standardized test

for protein content.

[kestrel91316]

6. Deliberate adulteration of food for profit. The Chinese have learned much

by watching American corporations and their pursuit of the dollar at any cost.

Melamine makes the product look like it has more protein that it does on chemical testing. That's why it is used to spike high-protein products like canned pet food and milk and baby formula.

People who do this should be shot. Literally.

[Greyhound]

16. I think the Chinese shoot them.

Amnesty International estimates that the Chinese government executed about 6000 people last year. < 500 was official number.

[Resuscitated Ethics]

7. Cynical sidestepping of FDA rules years ago allowed by inept

cronyism a la bush. Melamine is added to watered down milk to extend it. The one lame test to pass: amount of protein milk product needs. Melamine, a poison used in plastic manufacture, makes test read false OK. Cynical and murderous. Those tainted criminal original batches are still in the pipeline as dried milk product. If I recall correctly at least one Chinese official has been humiliated and executed for malfeasance. But we are still buying the stuff! Cadbury used to be trusted. Fucking crooks.

[napi21]

8. I buy the "false higher protein reading" but why would you do that to candy???? n/t

[Blue Diadem]

14. It's in the milk powders.

It's also in some recalled Chinese tea that has milk powder added.

[juno jones]

15. Powdered milk is probably used as an ingredient.

The powdered milk has been diluted and cut with melamine to pass nutrition assays.

[Alameda]

11. Well we knew when it was in pet food it was just a matter of time

before it was in human food. Who would have thought it would have been in Cadbury, Heinz, Unilever recalls?

http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/e677c69c-8f34-11dd-946c-0000779fd18c.html

How in the H**L are we supposed to know what the damn stuff IS in?

[EFerrari]

12. The Planet Melmac wants to know.

:scared:

[sandnsea]

13. 50,000 babies sick and 4 dead

and you're just hearing about this? Or maybe you didn't connect the baby milk in China with the powdered milk in other products that are being recalled around the world. I'll consider that possibly.

[Obamarama]

17. I went shopping today. Noticed shrimp was on sale $3.99 a bag for the 50-60 count bags.

The freezer shelf was full.

Being the errant Jew that I am (we are forbidden from eating shellfish, but I tend to overlook this restriction!), I wondered why the shelf was full with such a great deal advertised.

Looked on the back: "IMPORTED FROM CHINA"

Between lead paint and melamine, people aren't buying China's shit anymore, especially food products.

[Forrest Greene]

18. Out Of Curiosity

...does anyone have approximate figures on how much additional profit is gained by the powdered milk manufacturers by the use of melamine, as opposed to not? There's that old cliché about the Orient, "where life is cheap." I'm just wondering how cheap, these days.