Chinese elementary school mixes lead-based paint into school lunches, sending hundreds to the hospital

Not The Bee ^ | July 25, 2025 | Mister Retrops

[John Leland 1789]

“It was Melamine and they put the same poison in some people food over there.”

That is correct. We were living in Shanghai at the time. Melamine is a plastic found in household items such as plastic dining plates and drinking cups.

Dairy producers were being castigated for the low protein levels.

Someone in the Dairy industry discovered that melamine, available in a fine powder in the pre-manufacturing state, when mixed into milk, would cause a false reading of protein at a higher level.

Then hospitals began to treat an unusually high number of children suffering from kidney stones, and intestinal blockages. The cause? melamine.

We had always been purchasing milk in long storage life box packaging from Australia, imported into China.

We received notices at our door from the Shanghai health authorities warning of Chinese dairy products containing "a foreign substance."

[Flaming Conservative]

It would be great if all the cheap junk dishware and utensils could be tested for poisons, because I do not trust the Chinese as far as I can throw an elephant.

[GingisK]

Their inability to grasp risks or their apathy toward them is a massive liability in even simple decisions.

In China, this would be caused by abject ignorance. School cafeteria workers would have never been exposed to technical material of any kind.

[dljordan]

“Think it may have been baby formula.”

Yep.

[Red Badger]