Friday, December 26, 2008

Toxic melamine is suspected in seafood from China

Toxic melamine is suspected in seafood from China
LA Times

Industry experts and businesspeople in China say that the industrial chemical has been routinely added to fish and animal feed to artificially boost protein readings.

Reporting from Los Angeles and Shanghai--Melamine in Chinese-produced milk powder has sickened hundreds of thousands of children and added to a growing list of made-in-China foods banned across the globe.Now, some scientists and consumer advocates are raising concerns that fish from China may also be contaminated with the industrial chemical.


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FYI... people have noticed boxes of frozen talapia bearing “Produce of China” being unloaded into Walmart seafood display cases.

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