Last week, the US Food and Drug Administration banned all imports of milk-containing products from China, unless they were tested for melamine. Some consumer advocacy groups, like Food and Water Watch, think that should have happened a lot sooner.

In September this year, media broke the “Chinese Milk Scandal.” Over fifty brands of milk-containing products in China had tested positive for melamine, a banned industrial chemical used in fertilizers and plastics. Under the media spotlight, the Chinese government investigated, and nearly 500 pounds of the chemical - considered toxic at the parts per billion - were seized from 27 different producers and processors.

The nitrogen-rich melamine was being added illegally to the dairy product to increase the apparent protein content. As of October, over 50,000 Chinese children had been hospitalized for melamine symptoms, and four children had died.

Yet only a week ago, the US FDA finally decided to issue an alert to us about milk-containing products from China. China’s feelings are hurt even by this late admonishment - after all, China banned our country’s beef in 2003 after positive tests for mad cow disease, but then lifted the ban, even as South Korea had violent protests against the re-importation of U.S. beef.

Qin Gang, the Chinese Ministry of Foreign Affairs Spokesperson, in what appears to be a thinly veiled threat, simply states that the milk-product ban will hurt bi-lateral trade between the two countries.

Via Food and Water Watch

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