Mmm-mmm good. FDA tells us how much melamine is okay in our food.

[LiberalHeart]

FRIDAY, Oct. 3 (HealthDay News) -- With the Chinese milk products-melamine scandal generating fresh headlines, U.S. health officials on Friday unveiled what they consider acceptable levels of contamination with the industrial chemical.

The bottom line: No amount of melamine is safe in infant formula.

For all other foods, only amounts less than 2.5 parts per million are risk free, U.S. Food and Drug Administration officials said.

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In determining its risk assessment standards for melamine contamination, the FDA concluded that levels of the chemical less than 2.5 parts per million are safe, Sundlof said. "If you had 1 million grains of sand, and they're all white sand, and you had two grains that were black -- that's what that means," he said.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/10/03/AR2008100302720.html

[billyoc]

1. So to be safe, keep all food out of the reach of children.

:wtf:

[LiberalHeart]

2. Just take the melamine out of the melamine before you feed them.

Or give them white sand.

[Mind_your_head]

3. Oh my ruptured kidneys!!!!

:wtf: ?????

[Lasher]

4. It's got electrolytes.

Next they'll be charging extra for melamine-fortified infant formula.

[emilyg]

5. Let the FDA eat cake

loaded with melamine.