Melamine contamination extends to human food
The FDA released the following on April 27, indicating that it is detaining a lot of food imports from China. Melamine seems to be in a lot of the rice, corn, and wheat glutens coming out of China. I bet if you check the labels on your shelves, you’ll find gluten mentioned in most of the ingredient lists. But we have no way of knowing if the glutens in our house are contaminated. If it was this easy to contaminate U.S. food by accident, think about how easy it would be for terrorists to do it on purpose.
May 3rd, 2007 at 7:47 pm
When it was first discovered that the dog food was contaminated I couldn’t help but wonder if it might have been a trial run by someone. It seems like a good way to test out the food delivery system in the United States. If contaminates can be easily introduced into the pet food industry then it might be just as easy to use a similar method to contaminate the human food supply as well. I can only hope that the food import industry will wake up and take notice.