WHY spike grain products with melamine?

[columbine]

"The Las Vegas importer of the contaminated Chinese wheat gluten, ChemNutra Inc., that led to the original pet food recall has suggested that spiking a product with melamine can make it to appear to be richer in protein during tests, thus increasing its value."

Full CBS news article http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2007/04/19/health/main2703621.shtml (here.)

Love, Columbine

[Freedom]

All I can say is:

GRRRRR!!!!

[Jadapit]

This melamine nightmare is going to get worse before it gets better I'm afraid.
Read what a Forbes article said...

In another development, it appears that some of the contaminated rice protein concentrate made its way in to hog feed. The extent of the problem isn't known. It's also not known if hogs fed the contaminated food have made it into the human food chain, the FDA reported.


"We do understand that one of the companies that was manufacturing pet food had some pet food that was unfit for pets and it made its way into some hog feed," Sundlof said. "We are following up on that."



Also, they have found the melamine in corn gulten in South Africa, it was imported from China. All of this scares me to death, it really does. Here is the Forbes article.
http://www.forbes.com/forbeslife/health/feeds/hscout/2007/04/19/hscout603892.html