Have you consumed melamine today?

It is more disturbing than relieving to see our police and customs 'successfully' nabbing drug traffickers and raiding drug processing facilities in Malaysia. The spate of such reports on almost a daily frequency is in fact not an understatement to the 'competency' of our public security and immigration authorities, instead a shameful testimony to the lackadaisical attitude our security forces portray on duty. Why do you think, that these drug dealers chose to breach our shores at such an alarming rate? Is it due to the potential of fetching higher profit margins for the drugs, or is it that the drug dealers know they have a higher rate of passing under the sleepy eyes of our customs gates? Maybe, they also know that their chances of getting caught in Malaysia is lower compared to other countries? Of course, a successful criminal will know how to find a marketplace with the lowest 'failure' rate. The million dollar question under these circumstances would be; for each and every case that couldn't get through the customs, how many would have successfully penetrated Malaysian soil? Now, since drugs aren't basic needs of the general public, I won't elaborate on how bad these drugs could influence our new generations. I prefer to look from a different perspective. Remember those melamine-laced milk powder in China? Since the cases of China babies getting kidney failure from the milk consumption, we read about the Fonterra company recalling all the 'Three deers brand' in the news. Yes, the recalling exercise sounded nice. BUT, does anyone want to believe that they actually 'destroyed' all the milk powder that was recalled? Obviously, no businessmen in their 'right' state of mind would ever want to throw the product away just like that. What do I think they will do to the milk powder? Let me take a guess... The best plan, in order not to 'waste' away millions of tonnes of product, is to: 1. Mix it with non-melamine-laced milk powder --- to dilute the melamine. 2. Utilise the milk powder in other milk products like; chocolates, ice-cream, candies, etc. as long as those final products are not targeted at babies. 3. Sell them to factories manufacturing milk products. Oh-oh, how many milk product manufacturers in Malaysia would be sourcing 'milk powder' from China? You and I will never know. How many businessmen in Malaysia would know how to differentiate clean milk powder from melamine-laced milk powder? In the face of maximising profits and minimising costs, NONE. So, how much melamine would you and I (and our babies) have consumed in-so-far since the China 'kidney-babies' uproar? God won't know either.