Sounds like the definition I learned in high school chemistry.
It can be “organic” if the right papers are shuffled properly. Actually, every substance on earth is organic anyway.
The fact that the US imports so much food (and I use that term loosley) from China is a sin and a crime.
On this forum (pretty much dedicated to discussion and news of H5N1 but many related topics) there has been an ongoing discussion about the China/poison/melamine topic for quite some time. Here is a link to the latest page of the thread:
http://www.singtomeohmuse.com/viewtopic.php?t=739&start=300
The Lesson from the Pet Food and Spinach Recalls
There are a lot of knowledgeable people discussing this. You have to tolerate (not on this thread so much) some liberal bias; if you can’t tolerate the occasional leftist opinion don’t go there. There is also a security window thingie that comes up, just click yes and you’re on the site. It’s fine, I’ve been reading the site since its inception.
There is very valuable information about melamine, cyanuric acid (or whatever it is) and so on.