3cats, from your article:

"What could I do after I heard something like this? Where could I go to report the problem? I can't think of any official in this vast country who would patiently listen to me and try to address the problem. Most officials would probably regard me as insane if I went to talk to them."

I had the same feeling calling politicians, FDA, USDA, and food manufacturers during  the pet food poisoning, and now again.  Still, they respond as though we are over-reacting or drawing some insane, tangential conclusion.  You ask some customer service rep at Kraft where they get their milk protein concentrate and they are taken aback that you want to know.  It's their proprietary secret, you have no right to that information.   You're just feeding it to your kids, afterall....Trust them to abide by FDA standards, etc, when we know the real rate of import inspections. So then you ask the government where it all goes?  Confidential?   Call your Congress person--the person who answers the phone doesn't know what you are talking about--they'll make a note of it.  So, you follow up with an email, does anyone even read it among all of the others?  And all along, you have the sneaking suspicion that even if they know, they will try to hide it as long as they can get away with it.

That's why I think we have to do the testing ourselves.

And this from the article as well:

"Is there a devil who lives in our hearts and sneers at our actions all the time? His mission is to deprive us of the ability to respond, to smother our enthusiasm, and to paralyze our will to take action. I am caught in the same situation as my imaginary, impassive official. Both of us are controlled by a curse and have lost the ability to take appropriate action . . . "

Glad to see she's on top of this, and I agree with her.

So, how do they figure?  How else was the lactoferrin contaminated? 

that is the point, no one has but will they now??
or will this be the SOS, don't worry be happy

db

3cat

take a break if you need one, but I personally don't believe you are ranting. You have posted links and have been quite level headed.

see you later

db

Yes most of the average citizens in the world are furious,but are any of our goverments listening ? And if they are,do they care ? You can't get any lower than poisoning and killing babies. If thats not enough to ban all Chinese imports and force co's to stop using the "its proprietory" excuse,nothing ever will be.

3cat, your posts don't sound like out of control, repetitive rants at all but rather good information.  I feel your same outrage.  I look at locally made product labels and see "milk solids" and other ingredients that should come from our many somewhat local dairies...but do they and will I ever find where certain ingredients originated?  Not in most cases and perhaps none as far as who to trust, anyway. 

What still continues to surprise is the number of people around me who know nothing of melamine contamination in products in the US.  They think it has all stayed in China!

Reading Wilkipedia I see the following:
"By early 2006, melamine production in mainland China is reported to be in "serious surplus".[49] In April 2007, DSM's melamine industry update painted a grave global picture.[50] Between 2002 and 2007, while the global melamine price remained stable, a steep increase in the price of urea (feedstock for melamine) has reduced the profitability of melamine manufacturing. Currently, China is the world's largest exporter of melamine, while its domestic consumption still grows by 10% per year. However, reduced profit has already caused other joint melamine ventures to be postponed there."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Melamine

So serious surplus in 2006 = bury melamine in animal feeds by late 2006 thru 2007 and by 2008 move to human foods? 

Thinking since we have free trade and all, we need to find clever way to package our dog poo and litter box dumpings, put fancy label on this and bury it in products to sell to China?  I wish!  However, it is the Chinese businesses and government that is to blame and not the average citizens themselves.  They are as much the victim as we are and moreso in some cases.

There is an election coming up.  People we will return to Washington or send for their first term need to respond to our questions and requests for a safe food supply.  This should be the very time they will listen and respond if ever there is one.