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on the melamine in baby formula story: http://www.cnn.com/2008/HEALTH/11/25/infant.formula.melamine/?iref=mpstoryview

"Leon said the sample that tested positive most likely became contaminated through the manufacturing process or through contact with can liners."

In other words, if you use melamine-containing plastic at some stage during the manufacturing process, a tiny amount is going to be eroded away by the powder, not unlike sandblasting. By contrast, what the criminal suppliers in china were doing was watering down milk to increase profit margins, then adding melamine in bulk to re-establish a normal-seeming consistency. This is like comparing a bit of sand in your shoes after you've been to the beach with dumping a truckload of the stuff in someone's driveway.