Authorities discovered the soy meal contained an astonishing 50 times the maximum limit of Melamine

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[Scythian]

Want to know what organic chickens are fed? If it's soy meal from China -- a cheap source of protein -- it may also contain melamine.

That's what happened with 300 tons of soy meal being fed to organic chicken in western France. Authorities discovered the soy meal contained an astonishing 50 times the maximum limit of melamine: 116mg per kg of soy meal.

This cheap Chinese soy meal was delivered to 127 "organic" chicken farms in France. Nobody yet knows how many organic chicken farms in the U.S., Canada, U.K. or Australia might also be feeding their chickens toxic levels of melamine.

This is part of the dangerous widening of the melamine scandal I predicted earlier today: Melamine contamination is now reaching into the meat supply, and it could even include organic meats such as beef, pork and chicken.

[Scythian]

Want to know what organic chickens are fed? If it's soy meal from China -- a cheap source of protein -- it may also contain melamine.

That's what happened with 300 tons of soy meal being fed to organic chicken in western France. Authorities discovered the soy meal contained an astonishing 50 times the maximum limit of melamine: 116mg per kg of soy meal.

This cheap Chinese soy meal was delivered to 127 "organic" chicken farms in France. Nobody yet knows how many organic chicken farms in the U.S., Canada, U.K. or Australia might also be feeding their chickens toxic levels of melamine.

This is part of the dangerous widening of the melamine scandal I predicted earlier today: Melamine contamination is now reaching into the meat supply, and it could even include organic meats such as beef, pork and chicken.

[WildcatClan]

If China is not hurt in their wallets, it will never end. These people don’t deserve for anyone to trade with them. It is never about accidents or unintended consequences but always greed.

[Scythian]

I agree, we should ban food imports from China completely.

[DManA]

They’ll buy food from China no questions asked but are scared to death of US genetically modified corn. Go figure.

[angkor]

While Googling for the origin and ingredients of a food supplement I saw at the store, I ran across several articles from a year and more ago, about melamine being found in protein powders made in China, including the soy, whey, and albumin varieties.

The story didn’t get the traction of the dog food and baby food reports. But it looks from the story above as if the issue is finally coming up again.

American food manufacturers can apparently use these contaminated Chinese **ingredients** and still label their products “Made in USA”.

[Red Badger]

ChiCom Soy okay, FrankenCorn no okay...............Maybe we should try and sell them FrankenBeans instead?.........

[weegee]

They like that word “organic”.

[Dawn531]

A huge percentage of our food supplements/vitamins are manufactured in China (I think 90 percent of our Vitamin C comes from China.) It’s almost impossible to figure out what comes from China, or what Chinese imported ingredients make their way into our food supply.

[ScottinVA]

Ban this stuff from China already. How many people are going to have to be poisoned before any of our “leaders” take notice?

[libertarian27]

Organic Melamine is WAY better for you than the artificial stuff/sarc

[angkor]

>>>>A huge percentage of our food supplements/vitamins are manufactured in China<<<<<

It's easy enough to cruise around alibaba.com to see what's on offer from Chinese bulk wholesale suppliers.

As you mention:
ascorbic acid (vitamin C)
Place of origin: Shandong China
Payment Terms: L/C,T/T,30%+70%
Minimum Order Quantity: 3 Metric Ton
Supply Ability: 10000 Metric Ton per Year
Package: 25kg/carton or drums

Try this search:

http://www.alibaba.com/showroom/Ascorbic_Acid_%2528_Vitamin_C_%2529.html

or....

http://www.alibaba.com/countrysearch/CN-suppliers/Vitamin_B_Complex.html

or.....

http://www.alibaba.com/catalogs/81804/Feed_Grade_Proteins.html

[Bedford Forrest]

A huge percentage of our food supplements/vitamins are manufactured in China (I think 90 percent of our Vitamin C comes from China

I spend the big bucks on Solgar supplements in the hope that such a large and reputable outfit would not hazard its gold-plated reputation by sourcing ANYTHING, including bottle caps, from the chicom thugs. We should never have granted MFN status to those scumbags. A classic Faustian bargain which is killing us in many ways. When will the American sheeple ever wake up?

[TribalPrincess2U]

THIS IS OUR GOVERNMENT LETTING US DOWN, PERIOD!
We have few options on getting food.

[This_far]

Well, melamine could be considered ‘organic’.
It is a derivative of a natural product. It’s better for plates though.
Considering the source(s), would plates made of ‘china’ from China (other), be any safer than melamine plates?

As an aside, I’ve wondered about the ‘organic’ products displayed on store shelves that are packaged in ...plastic trays and plastic stretch wrap.
And, those that are ‘free range’ in store plastic bins ... handled, rummaged through by how many? AAAAAAchooooo. thank you very much.

Personally, I consider the green/organic thingy a partial indicator or our economy. If it stays, our economy is still stumbling along.
If is starts to fade or falter... it could either be our economy or a resurgence of common sense.

[angkor]

here you go:

http://www.alibaba.com/product-free/11852569/Soy_Protein_Concentrate_For_Food_And/showimage.html

[angkor]

>>>>I spend the big bucks on Solgar supplements in the hope that such a large and reputable outfit would not hazard its gold-plated reputation by sourcing ANYTHING, including bottle caps, from the chicom thugs.<<<<<

Call them and ask.

Post the results of your inquiry.

We should all be doing this. It’s an act of public service.

[Elle Bee]

is there some benign reason that melamine comes to be in food products or is this some deliberate contamination?

what is melamine and why and how does it come to find itself in a food product?

.

[DManA]

As I understand it, melamine tricks the tests for protein making the stuff look like it has a higher protein content than it does, making it more valuable. Melamine is cheaper than protein.

[rockinqsranch]

I read an article awhile back here at FR that stated in the text, almost in passing If IIRC that Melamine is quite prevalent in the basic Fertilizing products used throughout the Chinese Farming Industry.

I recall wondering, and still wonder as to how much that basis would cause difficulties down the chain of food production. Seems to me the Melamine would have to be added to the Fertilizer product(s) deliberately for some reason to even be there.

It’s my understanding from member postings that I have read here at FR the Chinese use the Melamine to increase protein in product, yet after all this time one would think they would have suffered enough economically with all the rejections by foreign Nations, and within their own borders healthwise as in illness and death to have reconsidered that theory, and would have stopped instilling the Melamine product in their fertilizer, much less anything else.

As the World suffers economically, and as the Chinese are also suffering economically, perhaps they will now change their procedures. The death and destruction by Melamine within their own borders seemingly didn’t improve their perspective on the matter, so perhaps the lack of profitablility will raise their level of consciousness on the matter.

Interim we buy nothing of foodstuffs we note made in China, nor do we buy anything vaguely labeled that we suspect is made in China.

Does anybody know if major bakery products do actually contain product/materials ie; dried milk product made in China? I/we worry about “English Muffins”, Cookies, Breads, etc., and similar product(s) mass produced and distributed around the country.

[-YYZ-]

“116mg per kg of soy meal.”

That’s still not a whole lot - about 1/10th of a gram per 1000 grams, or .01% by weight. Of course, there’s no good reason for there to be any at all.