A ping list dedicated to exposing the quality, safety and security issues of anything “Made in China”.
Please FReepmail me if you would like to be on or off of the list.
(This can be a high volume ping list.)
Posted on 12/30/2008 6:11:55 PM PST by BGHater
China, fighting a health scandal over melamine found in milk and other food products, now says it is investigating melamine tableware, following reports it might be harmful to health when hot.
Quality inspectors told Xinhua news agency they were organising tests of melamine tableware "following reports that some products contained poisonous ingredients."
Melamine is an industrial compound used in making plastic chairs, countertops, tableware, flame retardants and even concrete. It was added by unscrupulous manufacturers to food to cheat nutrition tests due to its high nitrogen content.
The melamine scandal has battered faith in China-made products, after a series of other food- and product-safety scares and led to recalls of China-made dairy products around the world.
At least six babies died from kidney stones after drinking contaminated formula in China and hundreds of thousands fell ill.
In 2007, it was melamine that made its way into wheat gluten from China and then into pet food sold in the United States that killed dogs and made many sick.
China's General Administration of Quality Supervision, Inspection and Quarantine "has always put great stress on food and tableware product safety," Xinhua quoted it as saying in an overnight report.
"We are keeping a close eye on this issue and conducting product safety testing."
Tian Wenhua, former chairwoman of Sanlu Group, the company at the heart of the melamine-in-milk scandal which has since gone bankrupt, goes on trial Wednesday along with other three senior executives, the Beijing News said Tuesday.
(Excerpt) Read more at uk.reuters.com ...
But the globalization at any cost crowd told me melamineware is ten cents cheaper so that makes it ok.
It's not supposed to be in food.
Sporks are dangerous if you eat them, but your not supposed to eat the spork.
YOU’RE...ugh. Not your. How bout u’r?
Hey China-why don’t you just tell us what the melamine IS NOT in-that way we’ll know to avoid everything else.
Would have helped it they had given the whats, whys, and wherefores up front, rather than wasting so much ink to rehash only tangentially related “olds” instead of concentrating on the “news”.
A little history:
http://www.boonton.org/Community/History.htm
“...In 1891 the Loanda Hard Rubber Company was founded by Edwin A. Scribner, and began the manufacture of molded hard rubber products. Seven years later, Mr. Scribner died, and the management of the firm fell to other hands. Among the latter, in 1906, was Richard W. Seabury, who, casting about for new materials, learned of experiments with synthetic resins made by Dr. Leo Hendrick Baekeland, for whom the well-known material, “Bakelite”, was later to be named. Originally intended by Dr. Baekeland for a synthetic varnish, the new material was used by Seabury in making the world’s first molding of organic plastics in 1907. From that simple and early beginning, one of the world’s great industries developed, and made the name of Boonton famous. Boontonware, a molded plastic dinnerware was sold nationwide.
...”
As far as I know, “Melamine” was about the same as “Bakelite”. I worked for the company founded by the Seaburys for seven years, and two of them were still in charge. Despite the plastic, they were an electrical/electronics company. Jimmy Doolittle used to fly in there and get his gear calibrated now and again.
China must be soaked in this stuff.
I've got some serving pieces that are more than 40 years old. It must not be very fast acting.
This isn’t simply overkill; it’s seriously nutty. Melamine is supposed to be part of plastic plates, etc.
I had some chopsticks that were actually branded Melamine.
It was fairly amusing being at the same time as the petfood issue.
Great! I got all new silver wear and dishes last Christmas. I’m afraid to eat anything and I’m afraid to take any medicine or vitamins. God only knows what’s in them. But, hey.......’ain’t globalism swell? That bunch of traitors who did this to us need to be tried and dealt with according to their involvement in the destruction of America. I really can’t say what I’d like to do to them, or I’d get banned. LOL Suffice to say, they’re idiots!!!
"Kids, don't put hot food on me! I am POISON! VENENO! Now you say it! Bueno!"
When you get to the chopstick, stop biting down!
=)
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.