Poisoning the Food Chain

The problem with the chemical melamine can to international attention when thousands of household pets died from contaminated food. Recently there has been concern about melamine being added to milk in China. Now comes reports that melamine is throughout the food chain:

“The toxic chemical melamine is probably being routinely added to Chinese animal feed, state media has reported.

Correspondents say the unusually frank reports in several news outlets are an admission that contamination could be widespread throughout the food chain.”

link: Chinese melamine scandal widens

This is obviously an international problem as well as a national crisis for China. Until China has stricter regulations that are enforced, it seems that all edible products that are animal derivative must be viewed as a possible source of contamination.

Catherine Forsythe