Our Baby Formula Worries Pale Next to China's

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?

of IL 12:03PM September 22, 2008

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.

Ann Quinn of CA 11:59AM September 20, 2008