It won't hurt you unless...

...well, unless we find out it does, this entertaining FDA/USDA “joint update” makes clear - although perhaps not really entirely clear:

While the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention systems would have limited ability to detect subtle problems due to melamine and melamine-related compounds, no problems have been detected to date.

Problems, you say? Oh yeah. It's the story about the adulterated pet food again, but this time NEW! and IMPROVED! Turns out some of the screwed-up pet food was fed to other animals - like just about every kind, just about everywhere - through a process called “salvaging,” which means feeding garbage to the pigs. And cows. And fish. And so forth. In this case, for quite a while - since, oh, August of last year, or so.

The industrial chemical melamine has now been discovered in multiple high-protein food additives — wheat, corn and rice gluten — from multiple Chinese manufacturers, leading industry experts to conclude that not only was the contamination intentional, but that such “economic adulteration” is disturbingly widespread, at least in China.

“Economic adulteration,” don't that sound sweet? Just a little dirty money, is all. Adding the chemicals games the testing system, allowing inferior product to command a premium price.

And who knows? Maybe it won't hurt you, bunky, although the FDA/USDA seems pretty anxious to cover it's joint ass.

Link: Joint Update: FDA/USDA Update on Tainted Animal Feed
Link: HorsesAss.Org» Blog Archive » You are what you eat: is “salvage” pet food feeding cows to cows?
And thanks to: skippy