FDA sets melamine standard for baby formula (Update)

November 28th, 2008 By JOAN LOWY , Associated Press Writer

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Chemist Michael Filigenzi demonstrates how vials of liquefied pet food are placed in trays for testing for the industrial chemical melamine at the California Animal Health and Food Safety Laboratory, at the University of California, Davis, campus in Davis, Calif., Monday, Nov. 18, 2008. Traces of melamine have been detected in samples of top-selling U.S infant formula.(AP Photo/Rich Pedroncelli)

(AP) -- Less than two months after federal food regulators said they were unable to set a safety threshold for the industrial chemical melamine in baby formula, they announced a standard that allows for higher levels than those found in U.S.-made batches of the product.

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• Bob_Kob - Nov 28, 2008
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  LOL its "far below the amount that was making babies in china sick".
  
  Yeah! Our products only contain 90% of a lethal dose, its safe!
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• Bob_B - Nov 29, 2008
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  Totally unacceptable. You get me an officials for the Food and Drug Administration that has kids, let me talk to BOTH parents. I'm sure there will be no discussion. "Our child will not eat poison" is the only choice this couple will make in an honest choice.
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• Bob_Kob - Nov 29, 2008
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  Hey bob
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• RavenWizard - Dec 01, 2008
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  The issue of these chemicals being too much, too little, or just right in any processed animal food mixture begs the question why they're used in their production in the first place. Cost cutting incentives for higher profit margins best not be the chosen excuse.
  
  For the many infants brought up on and weaned off baby formula containing these chemicals it is a little late for never. The experiment of exposure continues.
  
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