Melamine safety facts
Melamine safety facts
- Melamine is used in food packaging as well as a component in some fertilisers and pesticides.
- Melamine is a very safe food contact material. Traces are permitted in many foods due to production and processing technologies.
- The estimated level of melamine in food resulting from its use in food contact materials is less than 0.015 ppm and its health impact is considered low.
- Consumption of products with traces of melamine does not pose a health risk.
- It is only the deliberate adulteration of food products with melamine that can lead to health problems.
- The melamine tolerance level of an average 70kg person is 35mg, based on a well balanced diet. Therefore an average person can tolerate 17.5mg of melamine/kg of food.
- At the 2.5 ppm limit a 70kg person would have to consume more than 14kg of food a day to reach the daily tolerable intake of melamine.
- In terms of milk, a 70kg person would have to drink a near impossible 17.5 litres of milk with a melamine level of 2.5 ppm a day to reach the daily tolerable intake of melamine.
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