Pet Food Crisis: NY Times Finds Evidence that Melamine May Have Been Deliberately Mixed With Wheat Gluten

This is a must read report with implications on human food, too .

The New York Times gets information  from sources in the US, China, and from the web that the Chinese company which exported the tainted wheat gluten actually mixed melamine into the product themselves in an attempt to boost protein content.

 Some American regulators suspect there was deliberate mixing of substances. They are looking into the possibility that melamine, the chemical linked to the pets’ deaths, was mixed into the wheat gluten in China as a way to bolster the protein content, according to a person who was briefed on the investigation.

 and lets think more about importing food from China:

But lax food-safety regulation and standards are a problem; food producers sometimes dye meats to make them look fresher and even sell fake milk powder for babies.

This week, the Chinese government reported that an elderly woman died and 202 people were sickened at a hospital north of here after they consumed a breakfast cereal that turned out to be laced with rat poison.

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