FDA approves melamine in baby food?
The decision by the Food and Drug Administration to allow U.S.-manufactured infant formula contaminated with melamine or its byproducts onto store shelves is "seriously flawed" and medically risky because parents may feed their babies more than one product, scientists at the nonprofit group Consumers Union said Friday.
The FDA detected melamine and its byproduct cyanuric acid separately in four of 89 containers of infant formula tested in the fall, but never at the same time. A can of milk-based liquid Nestle Good Start Supreme Infant Formula with Iron contained traces of melamine while three different cans of Mead Johnson's Enfamil LIPIL with Iron had traces of cyanuric acid.
There has been very little research on what levels are safe. Cats had kidney failure after eating 32 parts per million of cyanuric acid and 32 parts per million of melamine
Link: http://www.usatoday.com/news/health/2009-01-09-melamine-formula_N.htm