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To: AuntB

No, just things where they want to fake higher protein content.

I suspect the whole problem could be fixed by a change in the way China regulates food production that would not require heavy-handed enforcement.

The only reason an unscrupulous producer has for adulterating food products with melamine is to inflate the protein content on some coarse assay in which the C_3N_3(NH_2)_3 molecule tests as being protein. If the Chinese either used a finer assay that would distinguish the molecule from actual amino acids; or went to a model where the protein content of foods was measure by formulation, so that milk counted for as much protein as milk actually contains; or even abolished the protein assay entirely, there would be no motive to mix melamine in food products.


8 posted on 10/12/2008 5:47:07 PM PDT by The_Reader_David (For real change stop electing lawyers: Fighter-Pilot/Hockey-Mom '08.)
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9 posted on 10/12/2008 5:49:13 PM PDT by razbinn (I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America,and to the republic for which it ...)
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