This is an example of a case where our rule-based, litigation-prone beauracracy leads to horrible results. These levels are much lower than the levels in china, but it stands to reason that we don’t want any significant amount of a contaminant in our milk or baby formula supply. The sensible solution is for the FDA to say OK, those levels are not high enough to cause panic in the short term, but the dairy industry needs to hunt down the source of the contamination and eliminate it within the next 90 days. Unfortunately, they don’t have that option. If they declare it harmful, then the dairy industry is faced with recalling all product, consumers are faced with shortages, and tort-liability lawyers will enrich themselves via huge class action suits. If they declare it not harmful, then the problem doesn’t get fixed and it looks like a coverup (which is what has happened).
“but the dairy industry needs to hunt down the source of the contamination”
well one thing we know——the source is from CHINA.
My greyhound was one of the thousands of dogs that died from the melamine scandal. They LIED to us about the dog food! It is all about the money.