On & on it goes.. where it stops, nobody knows...

http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/World/Shanghai_to_inspect_fish_for_melamine/articleshow/3655249.cms

Shanghai launches fisheries' inspection fearing melamine contamination

BEIJING: Shanghai city authorities have launched a massive inspection in the fisheries industry out of fear that melamine contamination may spread  to the seafood industry. Melamine, a plastic industry chemical, has been found in milk and eggs in China resulting in wide-spread panic among consumers.

Shanghai's Livestock Office today announced that its inspection programme will cover more than 100 feed producers. It will launch more detailed investigations into the quality of seafood if the feed given to fish is found to be contaminated with melamine.

Investigations into quality of eggs have revealed that the toxic chemical is present in the products of several poultry farms. Egg contamination came to light after health authorities in Hong Kong said on Monday that have found melamine in eggs supplied by one of the major hatcheries. But subsequent investigations showed that the problem exists in eggs produced by four different companies selling under different brands.

Meanwhile, the State media reported that a local government in northeast China has banned the media from publishing reports about the discovery of melamine-tainted eggs for weeks until the matter was exposed in Hong Kong late last week. The suppression of information has resulted in delay in official action to stop the spread of the contamination, sources said.


"The suppression of information has resulted in delay in official action to stop the spread of the contamination, sources said."  They could just as well apply that to the U.S. of A. food protection agencies & the Food Industry in the U.S.of A. .....

eta link from 5catmom:
FDA Gaps Leave U.S. Vulnerable to Melamine Contamination Former FDA Director of Imports says 'radical change' needed

http://en.epochtimes.com/n2/united-states/fda-gaps-leave-us-vulnerable-5674.html

I don't exactly where to post this as melamine contamination spreads, but here seems
likely:

AgFeed Industries (FEED) Reports Never Utilizing Melamine in its Products or Raw Material

http://www.streetinsider.com/Corporate+News/AgFeed+Industries+%28FEED%29+Reports+Never+Utilizing+Melamine+in+its+Products+or+Raw+Material/4109679.html
AgFeed Industries (FEED) Reports Never Utilizing Melamine in its Products or Raw Material
AgFeed Industries, Inc. Announces That the Company Has Never Utilized Melamine in its Products or Raw Material
October 30, 2008 11:19 AM EDT

AgFeed Industries, Inc. (Nasdaq: FEED) announces that in the wake of concerns regarding the use by some companies of melamine to artificially increase the level of protein in animals, AgFeed has never used such chemical. In this regard, AgFeed has requested and has received early government testing and has been declared, for all of the company's products and raw materials, melamine free.

AgFeed Industries, Inc. (AgFeed) is engaged in the research and development, manufacture, marketing, distribution and sale of pre-mix fodder blended feed and feed additives primarily for use in People’s Republic of China's domestic pork husbandry market.