ONE MORE ADDENDUM... HEHE
usual suspect wrote:
> <...>
>>> Im throwing out all my china and buying melamine!
>>
>>
>> Sell it on eBay. You may as well get something for it. BTW, are you
>> aware that melamine is a thermosetting plastic? It's also known as
>> 2,4,6-Triamino-1,3,5-triazine (that's all one word), Trimeric
>> cyanamide, and Cyanurotriamide. It's probably unwise to use it for hot
>> foods since it softens when absorbs heat -- causing it to release
>> chemicals like Bisphenol A (look that up sometime, ok?), cyanide, and
>> formaldehyde (which is used in processing melamine resin). Did your
>> mom tell you about melamine, too?
>
> More info on melamine:
> http://www.inchem.org/documents/iarc.../melamine.html
>
> 5.3 Human data
> No data were available to evaluate the reproductive effects or prenatal
> toxicity of melamine to humans.
>
> No case report or epidemiological study was available to evaluate the
> carcinogenicity of melamine to humans.
>
> 5.4 Evaluation
> There is inadequate evidence for the carcinogenicity of melamine to
> experimental animals.
>
> No data on humans were available.
>
> In the absence of epidemiological data, no evaluation of the
> carcinogenicity of melamine to humans could be made.
>
> Sounds like aspartame and sucralose, huh. What are you going to eat off
> of now, chicken little?

See:
http://ntp-server.niehs.nih.gov/htdo...ies/tr245.html

That'll probably scare the shit out of ya.