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bobranger
Joined: 10 Jun 2008 Location: masan
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Posted: Sun Sep 28, 2008 11:47 pm Post subject: Not all tainted food is the same |
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Melamine is in the Korean food chain. The government in my opinion handled the situation correctly. Recall, better food labeling and increased inspection has seemed to settle the masses. Ok we won�t drink machine coffee and some snacks for a while. Thankfully the teachers at my school are not getting kids in hysterics. No threats of banning Chinese dairy products. The Longshoreman Union will continue to unload ships from China and best of all no candle light vigils in front of their embassy. Despite the fact that Melamine has killed more people than MAD cow disease this year alone as well as the unaccounted digestive illnesses, the aforementioned groups have taken a more civil tone. Why is this? |
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Scotticus
Joined: 18 Mar 2007
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Posted: Mon Sep 29, 2008 12:01 am Post subject: Re: Not all tainted food is the same |
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bobranger wrote: |
Thankfully the teachers at my school are not getting kids in hysterics. No threats of banning Chinese dairy products. The Longshoreman Union will continue to unload ships from China and best of all no candle light vigils in front of their embassy. |
Why thankfully? This is a situation where people SHOULD be angry. Unlike the Mad Cow bullshit, this is a real problem. These things are actually hurting people.
Over the last two years, how many recalls of Chinese products has their been? How many people have been killed by all the dangerous crap they manufacture? I lost count. |
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bobranger
Joined: 10 Jun 2008 Location: masan
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Posted: Mon Sep 29, 2008 12:17 am Post subject: |
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Scotticus
I agree completely |
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Ya-ta Boy
Joined: 16 Jan 2003 Location: Established in 1994
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Posted: Mon Sep 29, 2008 12:21 am Post subject: |
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The Korean Left is not anti-Chinese. It is anti-American. It was also using the beef thing as a way of attacking the newly installed president that humiliated them in the last election.
Beef was the tool they used to try to achieve their goals. Beef itself was never the issue. |
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bobranger
Joined: 10 Jun 2008 Location: masan
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Posted: Mon Sep 29, 2008 1:03 am Post subject: |
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Beef was the tool they used to try to achieve their goals. Beef itself was never the issue. |
It really irks me when adults use children as pawns. |
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Tiberious aka Sparkles

Joined: 23 Jan 2003 Location: I'm one cool cat!
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Posted: Mon Sep 29, 2008 2:11 am Post subject: Re: Not all tainted food is the same |
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bobranger wrote: |
...as well as the unaccounted digestive illnesses... |
What's this all about? |
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bobranger
Joined: 10 Jun 2008 Location: masan
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Posted: Mon Sep 29, 2008 2:22 am Post subject: |
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Kidney problems, ulcers and allergies that are linked to Melamine but go unreporeted. Eg. I had a kidney stone last month after consuming Melamine tainted products. The doctor treats the problem but was oblivious to the cause. |
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Tiberious aka Sparkles

Joined: 23 Jan 2003 Location: I'm one cool cat!
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Posted: Mon Sep 29, 2008 4:21 am Post subject: |
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bobranger wrote: |
Kidney problems, ulcers and allergies that are linked to Melamine but go unreporeted. Eg. I had a kidney stone last month after consuming Melamine tainted products. The doctor treats the problem but was oblivious to the cause. |
I was curious because a month ago I had a pretty severe intestinal ailment that lasted 3 weeks, and the doctors had no idea what it was; and a friend of mine has a co-worker whose intestinal problem has lasted months.
Maybe I'm just paranoid, but I've been hearing about a lot of cases of "stomach flu" and the like these past few months. |
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mervsdamun

Joined: 06 Jun 2006 Location: Seoul
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Posted: Mon Sep 29, 2008 11:42 pm Post subject: |
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Koreans should consider boycotting New Zealand then...
Melamine scare sees NZ firm suspend exports
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The traceback was expected to canvass whether the melamine was introduced to the raw milk, either by farmers using insecticides containing cyromazine, an insecticide which breaks down to melamine in mammals and plants, or feeding dairy cows cheap imported feeds such as palm kernel contaminated with cyromazine or its metabolite, melamine. |
Worth remembering that Sanlu, the firm behind the melamine scare in China are 43% owned by New Zealand's Fonterra. |
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bassexpander
Joined: 13 Sep 2007 Location: Someplace you'd rather be.
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Posted: Tue Sep 30, 2008 1:59 am Post subject: |
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Two more snacks found with chemicals:
By Kim Rahn
Staff Reporter
Two more snack items have been found to contain the harmful chemical melamine.
The Korea Food and Drug Administration (KFDA) said Tuesday that Ritz Bits Cracker Sandwiches Cheese, made by Navisco Food Suzhou and imported by Dongsuh Foods, and ``gosohan ssalgwaja'' (tasty rice snack), made by a Chinese company Danyang Day Bright Foods and imported by Hwatong & Babanggeu, were also found to contain melamine.
A melamine concentration of 23.3 parts-per-million (ppm) was detected in Ritz crackers, while one of 1.77 ppm was found in the rice snack.
So far six snacks have been confirmed to be tainted with the toxic chemical, including ``Misarang Coconut'' and ``Misarang Custard'' from Haitai Confectionary, ``Milk Rusk'' from J&J International, Hong Kong, and coffee creamer by Yuchang F.C.
Dongsuh and Hwatong & Babanggeu are recalling their products.
Many people are alert over the melamine-containing food items. What adds fuel to the fear includes rumors and false information about the harmful substance. Rumors are spreading fast this time again jusg as when gossip about mad cow disease was rife on the Internet in spring ahead of the nation's resumption of American beef imports.
Such rumors include: ``A person contracted kidney disease after consuming coffee creamer containing melamine,'' and ``Most animal feed imported from China contains melamine, so we should not eat chicken and pork.''
As the chemical is used to produce plastics and glues, rumors abound that when cooking with kitchenware containing melamine, the chemical melts, not only in hot water but also in cold, and thus seeps into food ― which is false information.
Many Internet users, especially mothers, ask questions such as, ``I ate the melamine-containing snack when I was five months pregnant. Is it possible that the chemical affected my baby?'' and ``Does pancake powder have melamine, too? I used to make pancakes for my boy.''
However, such questions usually meet false answers, including: ``You should not give strawberry milk to children as such milk contains powdered milk,'' and ``You need to be careful in giving children bread, chocolate, dumplings and processed dried cuttlefish as they contain lactose.''
A video clip even introduces a method which the creator claims is effective ``to check whether powdered milk contains melamine or not.'' The method, however, is groundless. ``We detect melamine with special analysis machines, so people cannot detect it at home,'' a KFDA official said.
``People are advised to be careful in selecting foods, but they don't need to be excessively afraid of the chemical,'' he said.
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