I've been warning Apple Juice drinkers in the USA of the dangers of consuming products that contain food ingredients from China. Now almost 13,000 children have been sickened by melamine-tainted milk products in China. Some 40,000 other infants and young children have received outpatient medical treatment and consultation as a result of the tainted milk, China's Xinhua new agency reported on Sunday. 1,253 infants have been diagnosed with kidney stones as a result of drinking formula laced with melamine. 53 are in critical condition, and two have even died from the bad formula, which was distributed by Sanlu Dairy.
Among the companies whose milk products are produced in China are Nestle (Dairy Farm Pure Milk). Imagine you're a mother feeding a child poisoned milk? Traces of melamine have been found in yogurt and ice cream from 22 Chinese dairy providers.
According to CNN, melamine is commonly used in coatings and laminates, wood adhesives, fabric coatings, ceiling tiles and flame retardants. Melamine can be added to various products to give them the chemical appearance of higher nutritional content.
My problem with China is that its food industry is unregulated or under-regulated compared with U.S. standards. Why, then, are most American manufacturers of apple juice using Chinese produced apple concentrate? My posts on this critically important issue have been mentioned and reposted by the Dallas Morning News and others.
July 7, 2007 -- Ban Tropicana Apple Juice: Contains Chinese Concentrate
July 11, 2007 -- Unsafe at Any Price: Chinese Food Ingredients in U.S. Foods
August 9, 2007 -- Boycott Tropicana, Mott and Apple & Eve
August 16, 2007 -- Tropicana Offers Me Coupon: They Continue to Use Chinese Concentrate in their Apple Juice
September 20, 2007 -- Make Your Point at ThePoint.com
December 8, 2007 -- Want to Improve Food Safety in China? Arrowsight It!
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