More developments on melamine

Only a day ago I wrote about melamine and feed and I concluded that "Maybe in time this will be shown to go full circle link back to animal feed ingredients and/or gluten contamination". The BBC News have carried a report to say that animal feed is the likely source of the melamine and yesterday UPI News reported that "in the last two months, China has closed 238 animal feed companies for melamine-related violations and destroyed an estimated 3,682 tons of substandard feed". The International Herald Tribune have also written an interesting article on the subject. Every country has had its own issues with food safety that has linked back to animal feed contamination. In March I wrote a post about dioxin contamination of feed in 1999 and 2004. No country is immune from these problems and national and regional food standards agencies need to ensure that adequate monitoring and verification activities are in place to identify accidental as well as intentional contamination. First published at The Human Imprint.