FDA finds traces of melamine in US infant formula
November 26, 2008 By MARTHA MENDOZA and JUSTIN PRITCHARD , Associated Press Writers
Customers look at milk in a supermarket in Beijing Monday Nov. 24, 2008. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration last week opened an office in Beijing, days after U.S. health officials detained foods from China made with milk and other dairy ingredients as a precaution to keep out foods contaminated with melamine. Dairy products tainted with the industrial chemical melamine have been blamed in the deaths of at least three babies in China, while tens of thousands of other children were sickened. (AP Photo/Greg Baker)
(AP) -- Traces of the industrial chemical melamine have been detected in samples of top-selling U.S. infant formula, but federal regulators insist the products are safe. The Food and Drug Administration said last month it was unable to identify any melamine exposure level as safe for infants, but a top official said it would be a "dangerous overreaction" for parents to stop feeding infant formula to babies who depend on it.
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Sep 07, 2009
What a bunch of freakin hypocrites!
Let's do a gedanken-experiment. Resolved; "there is no safe level." We can detect the substance at some concentration. Halve that detectable concentration; izzat safe? No? Halve it again and again and again, when does it become safe? Who pays for this technological development of ever more sensitive instruments for ever more stupid legislators?