The company had posted more than a dozen advertisements on the Internet seeking supplies of melamine scrap. Chinese feed suppliers say the chemical is often mixed into animal feed to make it appear higher in protein under routine chemical tests, cheating buyers into thinking they are getting higher grade feed. Melamine has no nutritional value.
On March 21, Xuzhou Anying apparently posted this message on the Internet trading site EC21: "We urgently need a lot of melamine scrap." Calls made Thursday to Binzhou Futian, the other supplier under suspicion, went unanswered.
Despite the ban on melamine in vegetable protein, Chinese chemical companies continue to say they sell melamine scrap to animal feed companies and even to food companies that make bakery items. "Our chemical products are mostly used for additives, not for animal feed," said Li Xiuping, a manager at Henan Xinxiang Huaxing Chemical in Henan Province. "Melamine is mainly used in the chemical industry, but it can also be used in making cakes."
http://www.iht.com/articles/2007/05/03/business/food.php"We've been running the melamine feed business for about 15 years and receiving positive responses from our customers," Wang said in a telephone interview. "Using the proper quantity of melamine will not harm the animals. Our products are very safe, for sure."
http://www.mg.co.za/article/2007-04-30-chinese-petfood-makers-unfazed-over-melamineand not just in China!
What the Schulers did, said Walter Stauffacher, FDA compliance officer for the Minneapolis district, was to wait for a period when the nitrogen content of local wheat was about 11 percent, buy it from farmers at the low market price, boost the nitrogen content with urea, then sell it to companies such as Pillsbury for a higher price per bushel. Higher nitrogen wheat is believed to produce superior baked goods.
In 1985, the Schulers made an estimated $750,000 on adulterated wheat. During FDA's investigation, evidence was found that suggested the Schulers also sold adulterated wheat in 1975 and 1981, Stauffacher said.
http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1370/is_n10_v24/ai_9246932Yesterday, federal officials announced that a manufacturing plant in Ohio was using the same banned substance, melamine, to make binding agents that ended up in feed for farmed fish, shrimp and livestock.
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/05/31/business/31food.html?em&ex=1180843200&en=c291cdfaeeab5843&ei=5087%0Aall this shit companies put in food to make profits from it,are sick,someday I hope,people will realize profit is an euphemism for getting something for nothing, profit is a kind of theft,another kind of theft commonly done today,usury,.But as long as the greed is good crowd can keep us in the dark about the poisoned food they profit from selling it to us,we will never know the extent of the damage done to our food supply by greedy people.Greed is NOT good, it is never good.
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