Posted on 10/28/2008 11:01:18 PM PDT by nickcarraway
A second batch of Chinese eggs has been found to contain an excessive amount of the industrial chemical melamine, the Hong Kong government said, as a new food safety problem on the mainland expanded.
Melamine was recently detected in Chinese dairy products blamed for sickening 54,000 children and linked to the deaths of four infants. More than 3,600 children remain sick, health officials say.
The same problem surfaced in Chinese eggs over the weekend when tests by the Hong Kong government found the chemical in egg imports from the mainland.
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Someone’s gonna go bye-bye, and soon.
God save those eating foodstuffs from China.
Balute Anyone?
seems like they would really have to put some effort into getting melamine into eggs.
If they gave melamine-tainted waste milk to the chickens in some form, they could have ingested it that way. Say the milk powder was mixed into the bulk chicken feed
Chickens are scavengers — like hogs with feathers — and can eat almost anything. But residues can show up in the eggs.
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