Adulteration of milk products and pet food with melamine underscores weaknesses of traditional methods, experts say

Thursday, August 26, 2010 - 19:21 in Mathematics & Economics

Recent incidents of adulteration involving infant formula, other milk products and pet food with the industrial chemical melamine revealed the weaknesses of current methods widely used across the domestic and global food industry for determining protein content in foods. The possible utility of alternative existing and emerging methods is the subject of a new paper.

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