Melamine

Melamine can be found in many places, in your kitchen, on your floor, on your car, on your desktop, in cabinets, in walls, in mugs and plates, in refrigerators – Melamine is all around.

Melamine plays vital roles in improving quality, safety, durability and aesthetic appearance of products such as laminated surfaces, adhesives and resins for wood-based panels, and an ingredient in many other products.

Melamine is often produced using one o the two following processes: a low-pressure, catalytic, gas-phase process and a shortened liquid-phase process. The starting materials for the production of melamine are natural gas and carbon dioxide. Urea is also often used as a feedstock in Melamine production.

Melamine is a safe product. People have been living and working with melamine in a large number of consumer product applications for more than four decades. The toxicological properties of melamine, as well as its behavior in the environment, are well known.

Melamine should not be used in food
Melamine is absolutely not intended to be used as an ingredient in food and feed applications and therefore should never be used as such. Melamine in bonded form is widely and regularly used in dinnerware, meeting the most stringent requirements of the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA). If there was the remotest risk of toxicity, the material would never pass the stringent standards of the FDA.
Visit the FDA website for more information.