Producers and consumers have been alerted that hundreds of tonnes of milk powder produced in China and used as an ingredient in the manufacture of baby milk formulas, but also as an ingredient in various food products for humans or animals contained melamine, added to falsifying chemical protein content from milk . Thus, producers get a "quality"commodity, without costs and their profits were high.
Chemical, melamine, is used in tanning the skin and affect the reproductive and urinary sytems, even in animals, and in this case was used by the chinese company to increase protein amount that the milk powder would have to bear, to pass the quality protein tests. Because the product is the cheapest of the Chinese market, extremely poor consumers are no longer bringing food safety issues.
Six people died and more than 300,000 needed hospital treatment after poisoning with melamine. Physio-chemical characteristics of melamine fostering the enter in the urinary system, causing obstruction and preventing the proper disposal of urine, experts explained. Thus, not only urine is not removed properly from the body, nor blood flow within the kidney is not in normal parameters.
In adults, ingestion of melamine is not as dangerous, although it is hard to do long-term predictions, just as there are no data to show how each body will react. European Union has set a maximum tolerable daily dose of 0.5 milligrams of melamine per kilogram body weight. In other words, for most adults there are no risk beyond that threshold, however, not all people react the same and it can not be said that is absolutely safe.
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