Let me say that first of all, that the guy in the video is wrong about
them using scrap melamine polymers in the China milk. Melamine polymer
is a very stable plastic which not only would pass through one's
digestive system unchanged and unabsorbed, but also would not yield any
increase in detected nitrogen when testing for protein which was the
purpose of adding the melamine. In addition, it would form a kind of
grit, which would be very easy to detect, it is insoluble, and all you
have to do is mix the milk powder with water, and if it is there, it
will be on the bottom and easily detected.
What they were adding is melamine MONOMER. This is the liquid which
polymerizes when heated to form melamine plastic after crosslinking with
formaldehyde. The stuff is very dangerous from a health standpoint,
just as other monomers are, such as styrene, methyl methacrylate, and
polyester resin (Bondo and Clear Cast for example). Just breathing any
of these monomers can make you sick, yet the plastics themselves are ALL
FDA approved for use with foods. Heck, most of us have counter tops
made of melamine ( Formica and Micarta are examples), and most plastic
dishes are made from it as well. When the monomer is ingested, the
kidneys will remove it, and it is toxic. But also when combined with
urea and in the environment of the urine, it tends to polymerized,
forming plastic inside the kidneys and kidney and bladder stones. Also
it can produce cyanuric acid crystals which can lead to kidney failure.
The stones are not only very serious, but unlike most toxins that will
eventually be flushed out, will likely remain there for the rest of the
entity's life.
However, that being said, there CAN be some leaching of unpolymerized
melamine monomer and formaldehyde used to crosslink in melamine
plastics. There is an article on this at
http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/tandf/tfac/2006/00000023/00000009/art00010
. Thus I would highly recommend washing any melamine dishes in a
dishwasher, and using the heated drying cycle before using them. Using
scrubbing pads made of melamine properly should not be a problem, but I
would not put it in my mouth since very small amounts of both
formaldehyde and melamine monomer could leach out.
Also see
http://www.sciencebase.com/science-blog/melamine-and-kidney-failure.html
for confirmation of what I am saying.
Melamine monomer, as opposed to the plastic used to make kitchen
utensils and table coverings, itself also has irritant properties. It
has been added to various food products to illicitly and fraudulently
boost the measured protein content without the expense of actually
improving the food’s nutritional value.
Marshall
mborg...@att.net wrote:
Another alert
All of my clients have and use with bare hands that little white pad
known as mr clean or any number of brands, it is made from malamine.
I have seen children use it and than put their hands in their mouths,
I try and warn anyone but everyone loves the poison.
I cannot get anyone yet to throw it away. My clients wonder why their
children are sick.
This poison and many others are just a few feet away, under every
sink,in every utility room in America.
Mary
-------------- Original message from <kmilkow...@cfl.rr.com>:
--------------
>
> From: Brasscheck TV
> Date: 10/29/2008 8:36:14 AM
> To: Linda
> Subject: Brasscheck TV: NEWS BULLETIN
>
>
> I don't often send bulletins, but this is
> potentially very serious.
>
> You have probably heard of the deliberate
> adulteration of infant formula with melamine
> in China.
>
> It killed and injured thousands of children
> there.
>
> What you don't know - because the FDA and others
> don't want you to know - is that as much as
> 20 million TONS of Chinese manufactured milk powder
> and products containing milk powder were imported into
> the US from China this year.
>
> Now please read the next part very carefully:
>
> The US...is the ONLY country...including China...
> that has NOT pulled food products containing
> milk powder manufactured in China off its
> shelves.
>
> Please re-reread the previous paragraph carefully.
>
> The person blowing the whistle on this is
> an expert in toy manufacturing who stumbled
> on this while researching this season's
> Halloween candy offerings.
>
> He has found candy manufactured in China
> with milk powder widely being sold in
> US stores.
>
> Obviously, I have not had time to check all the
> facts, but knowing the parties involved - China,
> the FDA, the Bush administration, and corporate
> America - I have no doubt that this is not only
> highly plausible, it's highly likely.
>
> It's serious.
>
> http://www.brasschecktv.com/page/460.html
>
> - Brasscheck
>
> P.S. Please share this with friends and colleagues
> so they can make informed decisions about what
> they eat.
>
> Do not eat or feed to your children any food
> made with milk powder manufactured in China.
>
>
>
>
> - Brasscheck
>
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