Pet food recall news, Derby Day update

[dogemperor]

Lots of updates in the past few days to the pet food recall news tickera) FDA is now investigating all food makers to see how far contamination has spread

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[silvaerina_tael]

Hmmm... I'm wondering about the chance of 'melamine doping' in a recent beer I have become quite fond of, and made in China, Tsingtao primarily grain products and byproducts that are the problem with what we are importing from China - with regards to food anyway. What would be the chances, that because it is made from barley and not wheat or corn, that it is also being inadvertently contaminated with melamine?

[dogemperor]

From what I understand--sadly--pretty much *any* grain product, and potentially any protein product at *all*, is subject to melamine doping. (I am not so sure how effective it'd be in beer--it depends on whether the melamine would kill the yeasties or not.)

[silvaerina_tael]

Is it though the entirety of China or just certain provinces where this is most common? It might narrow it down some, though not necessarily... And I know better than to blindly trust a site what ways "We use the highest quality ingredients". While that may be true, and it's also true that melamine is being 'sold' to the Chinese population as 'healthy' then they might not think anything of it.

[dogemperor]

From what little info is available, the melamine doping may be China-wide (and is, frankly, a small part of a long history of Chinese food safety issues that ARE China-wide--at the same time we are going through worries re tainted grain, hundreds in Panama and China have died from poisoning by antifreeze proffered off as glycerin).

[silvaerina_tael]

I see... That hundreds of people have died is frightening, especially with what is being passed off as what. I think I'll stop purchasing the beer until I know for certain it's safe, and I very well might not even buy it then because of the other safety issues.