The concern and even fear comes from food products from china which have
been tainted with it. Melamine may be fine as dishes, etc and other
plastic goods, but it killed thousands of dogs and cats when added to
gluten as a cheap filler, which gluten then ended up in animal foods.
Eating off melamine is very different from eating melamine.
Thanks for the explanation, very enlightening.
sol
Marshall Dudley wrote:
Melamine plastic is no different than any other plastic. They are
almost all formed from toxic monomers, catalysts, or give off toxic
compounds when curing. PVC is made from very toxic vinyl chloride,
acrylic from toxic methyl methacrylate, polyethylene from highly
poisonous ethylene, polystyrene from highly toxic styrene, polyester
from polyester resin, toxic styrene and methyl ethyl keytone peroxide
which is especially nasty. Then you have things like polyurethane
which is basically made from urine, but forms formaldehyde when it
cures and outgasses heavily. In addition many plastics, such as PVC
(but not melamine) have plasticizers in them that diffuse out and are
mimics of estrogen. Melamine and polyethylene are probably the least
problematical of these as far as having anything left over which might
diffuse out later, and Melamine probably has the least toxic monomer
of any of them. So I don't understand the criticism of melamine when
most of the other plastics are really much worse.
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