FDA Rules How Much Melamine Is Too Much

With the Chinese milk products-melamine scandal generating fresh headlines, U.S. health officials on Friday unveiled what they consider acceptable levels of contamination with the industrial chemical. The bottom line: No amount of melamine is safe in infant formula. For all other foods, only amounts less than 2.5 parts per million are risk free, U.S. Food and Drug Administration officials said. "For infant formula, we don't have sufficient information to be able to establish a level below which we have no concern," said Dr. Stephen Sundlof, director of the FDA's Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition. "For food other than infant formula, we do have sufficient information that we can establish what our levels of public health concern are."

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