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Thursday, April 19, 2007

More problems with Chinese food additives

It's been a busy week, but we'd be remiss if we didn't point readers to Goldy's work on Chinese protein additives. Frightening stuff.
What we have here is a pattern, and there is absolutely no reason to assume that it is limited to the pet food and animal feed markets. Wheat gluten, corn gluten and rice protein concentrate are all used to supplement the protein content of both animal and human food, and all three have now been found to be contaminated with melamine. Three different Chinese manufactures have now apparently been implicated.
We live in a media culture where television viewers are often given the headlines and then an endless assortment of health and lifestyle news. Goldy seems to be breaking news daily, for which he should be congratulated.

Hey, here's an idea: some of those health and lifestyle reporters could start by reading HA. Goldy's doing a great job, but sadly there are still a few people in the world who don't get their news from blogs. Maybe they would like to know all about wheat gluten, rice protein and corn gluten from China.

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