Wednesday, October 8, 2008

Where is the Press?

I think it is brave of  one grocery chain president in the Philippines to speak to the press the way he did recently, stating that checking for melamine in food would "affect a lot of industries, companies and employment." It is true that positive test results would create huge headaches for federal agencies, food producers and consumers all over the world. But I think his warning is honest. 

Of course it would affect a lot of industries, companies and employment. But we shouldn't ignore it. Sadly there are probably not enough resources to address the issue in the U.S. I guess it's just easier to ignore it, at least for now, or declare a threshold of 2.5 parts per million as an acceptable level of melamine in our food. Does anyone know the result of ingesting even low amounts of melamine on a daily basis, for years? Or decades?

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