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Safety and Health

Melamine is a safe product. People have been living and working with it for more than four decades, and its toxicological properties and how it behaves in the environment are well known.

Spillage accidents
No injuries are likely in the event of spillage. Melamine has a very low acute toxicity. If it is inhaled or gets in the eyes, it is only mildly irritating, and the irritation quickly subsides when exposure ceases.

Occupational hazard
No harmful effects have been observed on people working with or using melamine in all the time it has been on the market, and given all we know about the product, none would be expected.

Contact with food
Its use in dinnerware is fully approved by the US Food & Drug Administration.

Toxicity of melamine
A way to express the toxicity of a chemical is the LD50 value, expressing a Lethal Dose when entering the digestive system. For cats and dogs this value is 1250 milligram of melamine per kilogram body mass. This value is in the same range as, for instance, table salt and alcohol in wine and beer. For more detailed information, see the Safety Data

Melamine is used in applications like laminate flooring, work-surfaces, furniture, dinnerware and animal feeding bowls without incidents for decades.
These applications contain a bonded melamine-based polymer.
Even direct or indirect oral contact with any of these products will not expose you or your pet to melamine. These applications are therefore completely safe.

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