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Our Baby Formula Worries Pale Next to China's

September 19, 2008 01:27 PM ET | Deborah Kotz | Permanent Link | Print

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So if the consequences of chemicals in our children's food is not immediately fatal- it must be better than China's mess? Isn't that "take the profits and run from the results" philosophy what killed our banks and economy? At what point, when our children enter school with massive numbers of learning disabilities, or when our teenagers can't function or young adults become sick- when is it bad enough?

So if the chemicals contaminating our children today aren't immediately fatal- then it's not so bad. Just look at China, ight? Isn't suck out the profits today and forget the consquences the same philosophy that ended with our current financial crisis? Then, exactly when does future harm matter? After the companies have profited as much as possible? After 53,000 babies are sick? After 53,000 adults in the future suffer the consequences of our inaction?

Melamine and Pet Food Recalls of 2007 in the USA

China is simply the most flagrant current violator of using melamine to boost protein content in packaged foods. Have the

pet food recalls in the US of 2007 caused by melamine escaped

your memory? US pet owners, who lost thousands of pets to kidney

stones and renal failure, tried to sound the worldwide alarm then, but main stream media refused to cover the scandal out of fear, I presume, of losing advertising revenues from major corporations.

Exactly the same cause killed pets in the US and is presently

killing babies and infants in China, processed foods contaminated with melamine which has probaly been liquefied with

formaldehyde, and then had ethylene glycol (antifreeze) added to cover formaldehyde's bad taste and smell.

FDA inaction and Congressional inaction in the US has done

absolutely nothing to prevent US food manufacturers and ingredient importers from continuing this threat to US consumer

health and lives. Pet and babies are merely the cannaries in the

coal mine most vulnerable to this food safety threat of melamine

adulterated processed food.

China, unlike us, will most likely literally shoot some perpetrators of melamine in milk. Not so bad an idea, considering their motivation for putting it there

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