China’s Melamine Poisoning Spreads to Eggs – Implicating Wide Array of Food Products
November 2nd, 2008
The safety of food products that include those that will eventually be exported to the USA is a primary concern. We noticed the lead in millions of toys last year because kids were getting sick. However, other chemical impurities coming into America can take many years to show up in health issues like cancer.
Melamine is an industrial chemical used in plastics. It also has the odd side effect making the protein level of food products look higher in protein content. This poison was added to milk products on a very widespread basis involving dozens of China’s biggest food companies to make the milk test as more nutritious. Products that use milk, including candy exported from China were also implicated, not to mention the imported whey used pet food that killed or sickened thousands of pets here in the USA.
Now it turns out many eggs in China are also loaded with melamine, according to The Wall Street Journal. Apparently this dangerous chemical was added to chicken feed to make it also test higher for protein.
Eggs are being recalled, but clearly that is just the tip of the iceberg. Chicken itself is a mainstay of many Chinese dishes, as I know having been there many times. Chickens poisoned to the degree of passing it through their eggs means their meat is also poisoned. Not to mention the hundreds of products that use eggs, like noodles.
Just as some of the tainted candy showed up in the USA, it almost certain other milk, chicken, and egg products are already here.
Plus, if melamine is in chicken feed, it almost certainly in all animal feed, meaning all beef and pork products, and anything that uses them will also be implicated.
It is time for our government to take a stand on food imported from China. Right now no one is testing it at the borders or ports.
Todd Lipscomb
Founder of MadeinUSAForever.com (http://madeinusaforever.com/) your source for American-Made products.
Sunday, November 2nd, 2008 at 12:35 amand is filed under Uncategorized.
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