So the latest news from China is that the Government is now destroying tainted animal feed. Thank goodness. However, one thing that strikes me as odd was that they mentioned a child could eat up to 2 dozen tainted eggs before falling ill, so it was telling consumers not to make a big deal.

 Which makes me wonder, what happens if you eat two dozen eggs over 2 months? Will it then be ok? I have no idea, but the first thing I do when I go back to the U.S. is to get a health check-up, especially on my kidneys.

The one thing that I do know is that the kidney has these little things called nephrons, about 1 million of them, and they act as the filtration for your body. It would be disturbing if these nephrons got clogged up by Melamine. Here are some articles for your reference:

 New York Times: Chinese Regulators Destroying Tainted Feed

About Nephrons

Quote from IHT:

"Kidney experts said that there has been very little research into how the chemical disrupts kidney function. Dr. Fredric Coe, a professor of medicine at the University of Chicago, said that melamine is likely concentrated in the kidneys into crystals that the body cannot dissolve. Those crystals clog many of the kidney's nearly one million nephrons, which are tiny filtering units, in a process very different from the usual way kidney stones are formed, Coe said. Urination slows or ceases, and patients suffer acute kidney failure."

 I heart my nephrons.

Update:
Just received this from my friend Ryan, who's also an American expat in China

Tainting of Milk Is Open Secret in China

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