Melamine Contamination "Safe"

"It's safe to eat pork and chicken from animals whose feed was mixed with contaminated pet food that sickened or killed cats and dogs, Agriculture Secretary Mike Johanns said Monday.

Testing found that the contaminant, the industrial chemical melamine, was so diluted that any human exposure from the meat or eggs of the animals would be thousands of times lower than the level considered safe, he said.

"We literally found that the dilution is so minute, in fact in some cases you can't even test and find melamine any more in that product," Johanns said during comments to the Organic Trade Association."

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Let's just hope this never happens again. Of course, if you were eating organic all along, this wasn't much of an issue anyway.