Title: Discussion: Melamine
Course: RSC_FST1200_CANVASCOURSE > Section: Week 1 (Start Here)

Ensure that you have read the Melamine articles and think about the following sentences:

"While the scope of the tragedy was shocking, there was another worrying element to the case – only a fraction of the children who ingested the tainted milk products actually got sick. How could a chemical be acutely toxic to some without causing as much as a tummy ache in others?"

This was not the first time that melamine contamination has caused tragedy. The year before melamine and cyanuric acid caused deaths of animals that were fed pet food that had wheat from China that was tainted with melamine and cyanuric acid.

Put yourself in the place of a food processing company that gets overseas food ingredients. How are you going to protect your customers from intentional adulteration, much less unintentional adulteration when the food comes from somewhere so far away? How are you going to detect a food poison that only interacts with certain gut intestinal flora?

Post your thoughts on the subject. There is no wrong or right here, only decisions that place your company in a position of greater or lesser risk.