sol wrote:
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.
NO! You are talking about two different things that are being called
the same name. Melamine polymer is totally non toxic, inert, safe, and
has never killed anyone except by maybe a stack of dishes falling on
them. What killed the animals and babies was NOT melamine polymer, but
1,3,5-triazine-2,4,6-triamine which unfortunately is also called
melamine by people who can't pronounce the actual chemical name.
Eating off melamine is very different from eating melamine.
You can grind up melamine plates, and eat them. Other than possible
constipation there would be no problems. A small amount of
1,3,5-triazine-2,4,6-triamine though could be deadly, they are NOT the
same thing.
Marshall
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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