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To: Milwaukee_Guy
Aminopterin sounds like that's it. I was thinking resin earlier when melamine was mentioned, but melamine itself is just a condensation product of urea and ammonia used as fertilizer also. It hydrolyzes with water and goes back to urea and ammonia. The LD50 is 3.2 grams/kg rat, mouse, so it's not very toxic. Depending on the concentrations and ratios they find, they can tell how the contamination likely occurred. I doubt there was much melamine, because it would taste disgustingly bitter and ammonical. It would only take small amounts of aminopterin.
119 posted on 03/30/2007 9:53:29 PM PDT by spunkets ("Freedom is about authority", Rudy Giuliani, gun grabber)
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Maybe that explains why most people have reported their pets didn't want to eat the food before they did eat and got sick.


123 posted on 03/30/2007 10:18:27 PM PDT by Arizona Carolyn
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