Trace Amounts of Melamine May Be in Fish, Too

And now we learn that farmed fish may have been fed melamine-contaminated meal. This is quickly shaping up to be the worst food scandal since the the "mad cow disease" debacle of 1996.We keep learning a lot more than we wanted to know about how domesticated animals are fed.Ten years ago, the general public discovered that cows were fed cows' brains as a matter of course. Now we're learning all

Businessman Arrested in Pet Food Scandal

With the arrest by the Chinese government of a local businessman for allegedly contaminating pet food ingredients with the industrial chemical melamine, the current food safety scandal has taken another turn--from the assumption of accidental contamination to growing evidence of deliberate behavior, from contamination of pet food to possible contamination of human food.Ever notice how a

Connecting the Dots on Food Safety

The best health articles, like the one Ariana Eunjung Cha wrote in the Washington Post Wednesday on the ongoing pet-food crisis, typically touch on the theme that you can't be healthy in isolation. What others do affects how healthy you are, just as what you do affects others.Eunjung Cha connects the dots that link "food safety in China" to "food safety in the U.S." through the story of the