They are ever so slowly doing something about it.....

Oh, look a notice! Via Bryan at Why Now, the FDA Alert:

IA #99-29, 4/27/07,  IMPORT ALERT #99-29, "DETENTION WITHOUT PHYSICAL
EXAMINATION OF ALL VEGETABLE PROTEIN PRODUCTS FROM CHINA FOR ANIMAL OR HUMAN
FOOD USE DUE TO THE PRESENCE OF MELAMINE AND/OR MELAMINE ANALOGS"

TYPE OF ALERT: Detention Without Physical Examination (Countrywide)

(Note: This import alert represents the Agency's current guidance to FDA field
personnel regarding the manufacturer(s) and/or products(s) at issue.  It does
not create or confer any rights for or on any person, and does not operate to
bind FDA or the public).

PRODUCTS: Wheat Gluten
        Rice Gluten
        Rice Protein
        Rice Protein Concentrate
        Corn Gluten
        Corn Gluten Meal
        Corn By-Products
        Soy Protein
        Soy Gluten
        Proteins (includes amino acids and protein hydrosylates)
        Mung Bean Protein

PRODUCT   02G[][]08 - Soy Bean Meal/Powder/Gluten/Protein Isolate
CODES:    18E[][]03   Soy Protein Powder
        02F[][]08   Wheat Gluten
        02E[][]06 - Wheat Flour Gluten
          71M[][]01   Wheat Gluten

        02D[][]12   Rice Protein
        02D[][]13   Rice Gluten
        71I[][]03   Rice Protein

        71G[][]02 - Corn Gluten
        02B[][][][]   Milled Rice Products

        54[][][][][]- Amino acids and protein hydrosylates


PROBLEM:  Poisonous or Deleterious Substance
        Unfit For Food
        Unsafe Food Additive

PAF:          PES

COUNTRY:      China (CN)

Spocko at Spocko's Brain notes that the FDA has not named the companies involved with the contaminated chicken feed. We apparently are not supposed to worry our pretty little heads about such big important things like eating poisonous food.

Somebody would make a killing if they sold melamine testing kits on the net.....