Monitoringmelamine In Milk

摘要

Two leading groups of mass spectrometrists have applied their expertise to improve melamine detection in milk.rnThey were responding to the demand for a simple, fast and cheap melamine detection technique after the industrial chemical was found to be present in Chinese milk in September 2008. Tainted milk powders were blamed for the deaths of four babies, and for illnesses affectingtens of thousands of infants.rnMelamine, commonly used as a fire retardant and a plastic resin, was added to milk during processing to artificially boost its apparent protein content as assayed by total nitrogen content analysis.