Producers of animal feed all over China have been secretly supplementing their pig, poultry and fish feed with melamine and then selling it to unsuspecting farmers for years. It is used as a cheap filler that disguises itself as protein in tests but provides no nutritional value. Melamine is prohibited in any food in the US. The FDA has banned all shipments of wheat gluten from China after about 14,000 reports of animals sickened by the tainted product.
China's food safety regulations have come into question for years. Scandals have involved everything from fake baby milk formulas and soy sauce made from human hair to instances where cuttlefish were soaked in calligraphy ink to improve their color and eels were fed contraceptive pills to make them grow long and slim.
No one knows how the melamine got into the wheat gluten and it is not believed to be paticularly toxic, so the question is how it became so fatal in the pet food.
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