Some pet owners may not be aware but pet food such as doggie treats contain milk with some ingredients used are from China. It is estimated that China produces about 5 per cent of total market share for pet food.

In March last year, something similar happened. There was a massive recall of China—made pet food in the US. Thousands of cats and dogs were reportedly ill, and hundreds more were said to have died from eating the tainted food.

Not to be too worried though, according to experts, even if you eat eggs, meat or milk from animals that have consumed melamine tainted feed, you should be ok. The man made chemical cannot be broken down to “spread” into the muscles or fat of animals and melamine will pass out through the animals’ urine or form up as potentially lethal kidney stones. Melamine also theoretically should not enter the milk of cows, goats or humans according to doctors, although there is little scientific evidence available.

With these assurance that melamine in animal feed and pet food is not going to affect us in anyway, looks like we have to nothing to worry about. Or do we?

How about those that are rearing live stock or have pets under their care???

My son asked me if it’s possible that the melamine didn’t come from additive to the milk and diary products but came from the grass and feed the diary cows feed on. He told me that he thought up the question himself, anyway, told him it was a good question, possible and the question keeps going through my mind…

The latest unexpected twist in a scandal now came from news of South Korean authorities saying that they had detected a high level of melamine in Chinese vegetables. The report did not give details on how contamination could have happened, but South Korea’s Yonhap news agency reported on Friday that pesticide was likely to be blamed.

With this news, told my son there could be some connection in his thoughts about the possibility of cows feeding on contaminated feed that bring about the melamine contaminated milk and diary products.