Dangers of the Toxin Melamine Found in Food

Comments by J. C. Spencer

The toxin melamine found in foods, especially baby formula, has been a major concern lately. The melamine scandal has caused contamination of pet food and human foods made with powdered milk. A few have died and tens of thousands are sick.

The potentially deadly toxin is a white powder, looks like powdered milk, is cheaper than powdered milk. Powdered milk coming out of China has been laced with it . While glycomics teaches us that certain sugars are beneficial in removing toxins, we are to expose and halt toxins from ever entering the human body to the best of our abilities.

Short cuts in food production and marketing for sake of economics without regard for human life is the very reason we are in our health crisis. In one of my trips to India, I was told about how a worker had chipped little white rocks into rice size pieces to add to the rice to make it weigh more. My grandfather back in the early 1900s owned a country store. He told the story of some boys who bought from him some buckshot to fed to their geese to make them weigh more so they could sell them to my grandfather. The finger on the scale will destroy a society.

When toxins are intentionally added to food, that is criminal. But, if that toxin looks like and even has a molecular structure that fools the scientists, it can slip through normal detection. I have long contended that �identical molecules� can be different. A classic example, of course, is carbon. Coal/graphite and diamond are carbon, but each has different crystal structure. The structure, the bond, though it be slight, renders the molecule to have a totally different function. The angle of the bond, the positive or negative ion charge and the strength of that charge, and many factors concerning that environment yet to be discovered and understood, play roles in the functionality of molecules.

Following the articles on melamine in milk by David Bradley, Huang Yuanxi, Zhang Jing, Edward Wong, and others, you will be able to review how melamine tricked the scientists. Much of this extensive report comes out of China.

Click here for the full report (pdf file)