Archive for November 2, 2008
Melamine – First China’s Pet Food Calamity and Now a Baby Formula Crisis
According to the ever-helpful Wikipedia, “Melamine is combined with formaldehyde to produce melamine resin, a very durable thermosetting plastic, and melamine foam, a polymeric cleaning product.” In other words, it is the stuff your picnic plastic-wear is made of. It also happens to bond nitrogen in the same way that proteins do, so when companies test [...]
November 2, 2008
Tags: baby formula, breastfeeding, melamine Posted in: Health, Politics 
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