The New York Times reported that Chinese officials knew milk was contaminated and failed to alert the public months before the melamine scandal broke in April 2009. According to the NY Times article, "Melamine has often been used in China as a cheap additive to cheat on quality tests, because its nitrogen content can falsely inflate protein scores." A few weeks prior to this story, China arrested three other people selling melamine contaminated milk powder. Given the unwillingness of the Chinese to communicate these health dangers to the public -- its only natural to question the products we consume that come from China.