In the past month, the FDA has issued an import alert detaining ALL milk products, milk derived ingredients and finished food products containing milk from China due to the presence of melamine.

These foods include both human foods (bakery products, cereals, cheese, ice cream, soft drinks, and candy) as well as several types of pet foods (pet cat foods, pet dog foods, pet fish foods, other pet foods, laboratory animal feeds, pet and laboratory animal foods, byproducts for animals, dairy byproducts for animals, and animal waste feed products) imported from China.

According to the FDA, the melamine milk contamination started in infant formula but “these contaminated milk components appear to have been dispersed throughout the Chinese food supply chain…Reports of contamination have come from more than thirteen countries in Asia, Europe, and Australia, in addition to the United States.”

Time magazine has reported that the Chinese government continues to downgrade the severity of the problem. Some believe that the contaminated foods are “one of the most important factors resulting in the soaring number of birth defects in China.”

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