Chocolate gold coins: Melamine contamination.

HardDrive · 10-28-2008, 12:57 PM

Don't let the kids eat chocolate gold coins unless you know they are not the Sherwood brand chocolates. Like about a zillion other Chinese made products, it turns out they have tested positive for Melamine contamination.

Is it to much $$$ to feed the kids American made candy??!?!?!

Confirmed on snopes.com

http://www.snopes.com/food/warnings/coins.asp

gtc · gtc's Garage

Mmm.... death never tasted so good.

TGTIW · 10-28-2008, 01:23 PM

But just think of all the CEOs making bank off of outsourcing production to China..

Bill Douglas · 10-28-2008, 07:59 PM

Just don't eat anything from China.

Meat products may be loaded up with antibiotics and vegetable products with unsafe insecticides.

Drdogface · Drdogface's Garage

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Originally Posted by Bill Douglas

Just don't eat anything from China.

Meat products may be loaded up with antibiotics and vegetable products with unsafe insecticides.

And the sea food is farmed in sewage...

Aerkuld · Aerkuld's Garage

When some one mentions melamine all I can think about is that white plasticy surface that you get on cheap particle board shelves and work tops. Is this the same stuff, and why the heck would you even think about putting that in food?

kach22i · kach22i's Garage

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Originally Posted by Aerkuld

When some one mentions melamine all I can think about is that white plasticy surface that you get on cheap particle board shelves and work tops. Is this the same stuff, and why the heck would you even think about putting that in food?

There is a test which grades the quality of cow milk. It measures the fat content, protein content etc....

This test can be fooled by adding melamine to the milk which has been watered down to nothing.

Follow the money.

Note: my brother said he got this information by watching PBS.

tcar · 10-29-2008, 10:01 AM

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Originally Posted by Aerkuld

When some one mentions melamine all I can think about is that white plasticy surface that you get on cheap particle board shelves and work tops. Is this the same stuff, and why the heck would you even think about putting that in food?

That's melamine resin (also called melamine) plastic, and it's also used in countertops, etc.

The melamine in food from China is not a resin, is mixed with other chemicals to 'fool' tests.

Some of them are poisonous.