Good news! It's only mildly toxic!

And you probably didn't eat much of it anyway. I mean, you didn't eat anywhere near 2.5 million chickens, did you?

At the center of the problem are pet foods spiked with melamine, a mildly toxic chemical that can make food appear to have more protein than it does. Most of the food went to pets, but scraps were sold in February to the Indiana poultry producer, officials said. The contaminated material may have made up about 5 percent of the chickens' total food supply.

That small fraction, and the fact that people, unlike pets, do not eat the same thing day after day, suggests that consumers who ate contaminated pork or chicken would probably have ingested extremely small doses of melamine, well below the threshold for causing health effects, officials said. Experts conceded, however, that they know little about how the toxin interacts with other compounds in food.

Get a grip, dude - this is 21st Century America and “mildly toxic” is the new food standard.

And try not to get old. Nostalgia is a bitch.

Link: Millions Of Chickens Fed Tainted Pet Food - washingtonpost.com