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When Invisible Crystals Killed Thousands of Pets: The Melamine Mystery
When Invisible Crystals Killed Thousands of Pets: The Melamine Mystery
A quiet industrial ingredient hid tiny white crystals you could see with the naked eye, and by the time anyone connected the dots thousands of cats and dogs were dead; how did a chemical used in plastics end up in pet food sold under about one hundred trusted brand names? What were those spoke-like crystals, and why did two otherwise innocuous substances combine inside kidneys to kill with such efficiency?
In this episode, we tell the sequence of events from contaminated wheat gluten arriving from Xuzhou Anying Biologic…
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