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FDA Sets Safety Threshold for Contaminant Melamine
The Washington Post reports that the FDA, concerned with the amount of melamine in food coming from china, has set 2.5 parts per million as the maximum "tolerable" amount of melamine that could be safely consumed in other foods...

Melamine In China Baby Milk Powder -- Whoops Sorry.
ImageThief is just out with a great post on the Sanlu melamine crisis. The post does an amazing job giving a history of China's food safety problems, dissecting the current one, and discussing in real world terms Fonterra (the New Zealand company involved in a joint venture with Sanlu) has handled it, and how Fonterra should have handled it...

FDA Declares Pork Safe in Melamine Scare
In the continuing news about the pet food recall, food fed to pigs at a small number of farms in the country contained melamine. The FDA has announced that they consider any pork from the pigs as safe...

Melamine Contamination Mounts
Beijing, China: Melamine was first found in tainted pet food, where many dogs and cats developed acute kidney failure and died. Recently melamine was discovered in milk formula, and China says more than 50,000 children have been sickened; many of them have developed kidney stones, a very painful and serious illness...

Let Them Eat Clones -- Take Two
A Freedom of Information Act request from the Center for Food Safety together with several other groups has turned up a report commissioned by the FDA descriptively titled ?Focus Groups on the Public?s Perception on the Health Risk Associated with Products from Animal Clones?...

Chinese Melamine Scare Spreads Around The World
The tainted milk scandal that started with baby formula in China has spread to include and expanding number of food products. Milk and milk products have been found to be tainted with melamine, an industrial chemical...

Firestone Tire Problems Raise Questions of Safety
Are Your Car Tires Safe?

Pet Food Recall and Deaths
Dogs and Cats Sickened by Tainted Menu Food Products

Pet Food Recall
Diamond Pet Food sets up $3.1 million class action fund for substandard dog food.

Food/Supplements
involving food poisoning, food product recalls, false advertising or labeling, vitamin, weight loss and diet supplement issues.

FDA Issues Safety Warning About Valproic Acid and Divalproex Sodium
Valproic Acid and Divalproex Sodium FDA Issues Safety Warning About Risk for Birth Defects

Pork BBQ Products Recalled
The U.S. Department of Agriculture's Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) announced Oct 20 that the Murphy House in Louisburg, N...

PETCO
Animal Food Distribution Unsanitary, Food Seized

Menu Food
$240,000 settlement reached in Hawaii class action contaminated pet food suit.