title: A position statement on kidney disease from powdered infant formula-based melamine exposure in Chinese infants.
abstract: Melamine, a man-made non-nutritive substance containing nitrogen, can falsely elevate measures of protein content in foodstuffs. Several manufacturers of powdered infant formula in China apparently added melamine to raise the measured protein content and thereby exposed thousands of infants and young children to very high levels of melamine. Such exposure resulted in cases of acute kidney failure and nephrolithiasis. This Editorial from members of the world-wide Pediatric Nephrology community provides a common-sense approach to the care of infants who may have been exposed to powdered infant formula in 2007-2008.
authors.forename: Craig B
authors.initials: CB
authors.lastname: Langman
authors.forename: Uri
authors.initials: U
authors.lastname: Alon
authors.forename: Julie
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Ingelfinger
authors.forename: Märta
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Englund
authors.forename: Jeffrey M
authors.initials: JM
authors.lastname: Saland
authors.forename: Michael J G
authors.initials: MJ
authors.lastname: Somers
authors.forename: F Bruder
authors.initials: FB
authors.lastname: Stapleton
authors.forename: Nelson Orta
authors.initials: NO
authors.lastname: Sibú
authors.forename: Pierre
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Cochat
authors.forename: William
authors.initials: W
authors.lastname: Wong
authors.forename: Felicia U
authors.initials: FU
authors.lastname: Eke
authors.forename: Lisa
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Satlin
authors.forename: Isidro
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Salusky
mesh_terms: D002681:China; D005506:Food Contamination; D006801:Humans; D041943:Infant Formula / Q000737:chemistry*; D007231:Infant, Newborn; D007674:Kidney Diseases / Q000139:chemically induced* / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000628:therapy; D014227:Triazines / Q000506:poisoning*
chemical_list: D014227:Triazines; C011907:melamine