FDA FINDS MELAMINE SAFE IN BABY FORMULA, LEAD OK IN PAINT AND RADIOACTIVITY IN MILK JUST FINE
By R J Shulman
WASHINGTON – (PTSD News) – The Food and Drug Administration apparently reversed itself Friday when it proclaimed that the chemical melamine is safe in baby formula. “We have found that melamine will not cause harm,” said Steven Sundlof, FDA’s director of the Center for Food Safety, “if the level of melamine falls below whatever the amount is in Nestle’s Good Start Supreme Instant Formula and Meade Johnson’s infant powder, Enfimil.”

The FDA had previously stated that they could not determine any safe level of melamine in baby formula, a substance responsible for at least four infant deaths in China and for sickening thousands of babies. The fact that the change in position came hours after a closed door meeting between FDA officials, Nestle and Mead Johnson, “was just a coincidence,” said Sundlof.

In another announcement, the FDA stated that lead paint was no longer to be considered toxic if it fell below the level of lead originally found in Dutch Boy, Sherwin-Williams and Benjamin Moore. “Just like there has been an over reaction to fears of global warming,” said Gary Carter of the EPA, “there has been an almost hysterical discrimination against lead. These enviro-fascists are driving up the cost of paint. The homeowner has enough trouble trying to make their adjustable rate mortgage payment, let alone pay a premium for paint.” The report fell short of blaming the current financial crisis on the banning of lead in paint

Along with the FDA report on melamine, it released its findings that radio-activity and growth hormones found in milk were fine as long as they fell below the levels suggested by the American Dairy Council. “The children are our future,” said Cindy Collins of the American Dairy Council, “and we wouldn’t dream of having anything harm them. Certainly not before the rapture.”