Melamine is an organic base with the chemical formula C3H6N6, with the IUPAC name 1,3,5-triazine-2,4,6-triamine. It is only slightly soluble in water.Melamine is a trimer of cyanamide. Like cyanamide, it is 66% nitrogen (by mass) and provides fire retardant properties to resin formulas by releasing nitrogen when burned or charred. Dicyandiamide (or cyanoguanidine), the dimer of cyanamide, is also used as a fire retardant.Melamine is a metabolite of cyromazine, a pesticide. It is formed in the body of mammals who have ingested cyromazine. It was also reported that cyromazine is converted to melamine in plants.

I (not so) fondly recall Chicken-a-la-Death and the Tuna Casserole, my leaast favorite were the dehydrated beef/pork patties (supposedly reconstituable with water... not). The "gorilla cookie", likened by some as hard-packed sawdust covered in chocolate, was the favorite desert. But what they're doing now is a little different.

The FDA and USDA announced today that they would no longer quarantine hogs that had been fed feed tainted with melamine-tainted pet food. This is the latest development in the pet food recall.

A baker has been forced to rename her novelty Pig Tarts - because they don't contain pork.

Two federal agencies said Saturday a continuing investigation affirms that the risk to humans from hogs that may have eaten contaminated pet food is very low and that no recall is warranted.

Pork intended for human consumption might have been fed recalled pet food as themeat is testing positive for melamine.