News about the food and beverage products that contain melamine recently was widely reported by both print and electronic media. Products derived from this bamboo curtain country has drawn peredaraanya and government have announced any products that contain any hazardous materials.
People in this consumer, should know what and how a product that contains melamine. Because then people will be more selective to consume food products. Here's a quick information about this melamine material.
What is melamine?
Melamine is an organic base with chemical formula C3H6N6. This substance is a trimer of cyanida. Together with melamine formaldehyde resin used to produce melamine, a plastic that is heat resistant, and melamine foam, polymeric cleaning product. Melamine is a metabolite of cyromazine, a pesticide compounds.
History of Melamine.
It is said that the discovery of melamine beginnings started in 1907. At that time, when Leo Hendrik, chemical scientists from Belgium, Baekeland, managed to find artificial ingredients, artificial or synthetic, which is now known as plastic. In that year almost everyone is very pleased with the product sitetis or plastic materials, for its beauty, resistance and cheaper than broken glass. The discovery of plastic is a historic discovery in the world of synthetic materials in the 20th century.
BECAUSE want to make as high protein, dairy products in China interfered with melamine. No half-hearted, at least four infants died and to this day have launched more than 13,000 babies should be treated.
Actually, a similar case had occurred extensively last year due to the pengoplosan melamine pet food from China. As a result, hundreds of dogs and cats died and thousands more suffer from kidney failure.
Is melamine that? Same with melamine that is used for our silverware? Is the danger? What lessons can be drawn from this case? The following brief paper will try to give answers to these things.
Unlike tools
Melamine in question is the alkaline organic compounds with formula C3H6N6, nitrogen content up to 66 percent, usually obtained as a white crystal. Melamine is commonly used to make plastics, glue, and fertilizer.
Of melamine plastic, because the heat resistant properties, widely used for kitchen utensils. So, melamine is now different fuss with melamine plastic utensils. Melamine is this fuss is the basic ingredient melamine plastic.
Based on the information on the WHO website, the mixing of melamine in milk originated from the action pengoplosan milk with water. As a result of this dilution, the protein content of milk down. Because the factory is usually made from raw milk protein content checking through the determination of nitrogen content, the addition of melamine checks intended to deceive in order to dilute the milk was considered normal protein.
Melamine safety data
Addition of melamine into food is not allowed by the supervisory authority of any country food. Although as reported by Kompas, a study of the effects of melamine consumption in humans does not exist, extrapolating results from animal studies can be used to estimate the effects in humans.
It has seemed, if melamine join sianurat acid (also commonly found as impurities melamine) will form crystals that can be kidney stones. Kidney stones has been shown in animals melamine victims pengoplosan cases last year. Kidney stones that can clog these small channels in the kidney which can stop the production of urine, kidney failure, even death.
It is also known that melamine is a carcinogen in animals. Symptoms were observed due to melamine contamination found in the blood in the urine, urine production is a little, or no result, signs of kidney infection, and high blood pressure.
Melamine is not metabolized by the body. Safety data states, this compound has a low acute toxicity LD50 in mice, ie 3161 mg per kg of body weight. In studies using animals is confirmed, the intake of highly pure melamine resulted in inflammation of the bladder and bladder stone formation.
Food and Drugs Administration (Food and Drug Agency) United States states, the daily intake can be tolerated (tolerable daily intake / TDI) of melamine is 0.63 mg per kg of body weight. In the European community, the food regulatory authority to set lower standards, ie 0.5 mg per kg of body weight.
How severe the contamination is happening? Of inspections conducted in China, from 491 batches (groups) that tested, 69 of them positive for melamine, ranging from 0.09 mg per kg of milk up to 619 mg per kg of milk. Some even reaching 2563 mg per kg.
With formula milk consumption per kilogram of body weight approximately 140 g of babies a day, if the baby's milk contaminated with melamine will receive 0,013-86,7 intake mg per kilogram of body weight. Even if consuming the contaminated milk 2563 mg of melamine per kg of milk, can intake reached 358.8 mg per kg of body weight. Far beyond the tolerance limit!
People in this consumer, should know what and how a product that contains melamine. Because then people will be more selective to consume food products. Here's a quick information about this melamine material.
What is melamine?
Melamine is an organic base with chemical formula C3H6N6. This substance is a trimer of cyanida. Together with melamine formaldehyde resin used to produce melamine, a plastic that is heat resistant, and melamine foam, polymeric cleaning product. Melamine is a metabolite of cyromazine, a pesticide compounds.
History of Melamine.
It is said that the discovery of melamine beginnings started in 1907. At that time, when Leo Hendrik, chemical scientists from Belgium, Baekeland, managed to find artificial ingredients, artificial or synthetic, which is now known as plastic. In that year almost everyone is very pleased with the product sitetis or plastic materials, for its beauty, resistance and cheaper than broken glass. The discovery of plastic is a historic discovery in the world of synthetic materials in the 20th century.
BECAUSE want to make as high protein, dairy products in China interfered with melamine. No half-hearted, at least four infants died and to this day have launched more than 13,000 babies should be treated.
Actually, a similar case had occurred extensively last year due to the pengoplosan melamine pet food from China. As a result, hundreds of dogs and cats died and thousands more suffer from kidney failure.
Is melamine that? Same with melamine that is used for our silverware? Is the danger? What lessons can be drawn from this case? The following brief paper will try to give answers to these things.
Unlike tools
Melamine in question is the alkaline organic compounds with formula C3H6N6, nitrogen content up to 66 percent, usually obtained as a white crystal. Melamine is commonly used to make plastics, glue, and fertilizer.
Of melamine plastic, because the heat resistant properties, widely used for kitchen utensils. So, melamine is now different fuss with melamine plastic utensils. Melamine is this fuss is the basic ingredient melamine plastic.
Based on the information on the WHO website, the mixing of melamine in milk originated from the action pengoplosan milk with water. As a result of this dilution, the protein content of milk down. Because the factory is usually made from raw milk protein content checking through the determination of nitrogen content, the addition of melamine checks intended to deceive in order to dilute the milk was considered normal protein.
Melamine safety data
Addition of melamine into food is not allowed by the supervisory authority of any country food. Although as reported by Kompas, a study of the effects of melamine consumption in humans does not exist, extrapolating results from animal studies can be used to estimate the effects in humans.
It has seemed, if melamine join sianurat acid (also commonly found as impurities melamine) will form crystals that can be kidney stones. Kidney stones has been shown in animals melamine victims pengoplosan cases last year. Kidney stones that can clog these small channels in the kidney which can stop the production of urine, kidney failure, even death.
It is also known that melamine is a carcinogen in animals. Symptoms were observed due to melamine contamination found in the blood in the urine, urine production is a little, or no result, signs of kidney infection, and high blood pressure.
Melamine is not metabolized by the body. Safety data states, this compound has a low acute toxicity LD50 in mice, ie 3161 mg per kg of body weight. In studies using animals is confirmed, the intake of highly pure melamine resulted in inflammation of the bladder and bladder stone formation.
Food and Drugs Administration (Food and Drug Agency) United States states, the daily intake can be tolerated (tolerable daily intake / TDI) of melamine is 0.63 mg per kg of body weight. In the European community, the food regulatory authority to set lower standards, ie 0.5 mg per kg of body weight.
How severe the contamination is happening? Of inspections conducted in China, from 491 batches (groups) that tested, 69 of them positive for melamine, ranging from 0.09 mg per kg of milk up to 619 mg per kg of milk. Some even reaching 2563 mg per kg.
With formula milk consumption per kilogram of body weight approximately 140 g of babies a day, if the baby's milk contaminated with melamine will receive 0,013-86,7 intake mg per kilogram of body weight. Even if consuming the contaminated milk 2563 mg of melamine per kg of milk, can intake reached 358.8 mg per kg of body weight. Far beyond the tolerance limit!
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