Why China's Tainted Milk Leads to FDA Response

But let’s back track for a moment and say what melamine is and what it does. Melamine is used to make a certain type of plastic. When combined with formaldehyde and exposed to heat, melamine turns into a moldable plastic that is difficult to break, once it has cooled. This has made it of great use in kitchens as dishware.

However in powdered form, melamine can

As time has passed since the announcement of the recall, the number of infant deaths has risen, and it has come to the attention of the FDA that, even though they assured the U.S. people that there was no known risk, that maybe there is. And, thank goodness, they decided to take an approach of action instead of ‘let’s wait and see’. A warning has gone out that formula already purchased for sale in Asian markets around the country might be contaminated with melamine.

I have to give the FDA a ‘hand’ for looking at this situation in a proactive way. They could just as easily have assumed that we were fine and done nothing. But they started a search of the country, which one could only assume took quite a few man hours, to make sure it was safe. And

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