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FDA Says a Little Melamine is OK PDF Print E-mail
Written by Heather McKee   
Monday, 08 December 2008

Last week, in a spontaneously decisive move, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration declared a one part-per-million acceptability level for melamine in infant formulas. Melamine contamination is reason the U.S. FDA banned dried milk products from China, albeit reluctantly, after 50,000 Chinese children grew sick from ingesting tainted formulas.

 

As recently as October this year, the FDA declared that they were “…unable to establish any level of melamine and melamine-related compounds...that does not raise public health concerns.” But a few weeks ago, melamine and cyanuric acid (a byproduct of melamine) were found in samples of U.S.-made infant formulas. The samples - from Nestle, Mead Johnson, and Abbott Laboratories, the three companies that control 90% of the U.S. infant formula production - contained levels of 0.137, 0.247, and “less than the new FDA limit” parts per million (Abbott self-reported this information) of melamine or cyanuric acid.

 

The new FDA limit of one part per million is above the reported levels found in U.S.-made infant formulas. This decision by the FDA seems troublingly arbitrary, however, considering that no new scientific studies have been released in the past few months that further evaluated the health effects of melamine or cyanuric acid.

 

These new FDA standards are the same as the ones set by China’s Health Ministry, although Taiwan’s standards for these chemicals are 20 times as stringent.

 

Via Newsweek

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