The melamine scandal reaches the bedroom!

It is to laugh . . .

Readers are doubtless familiar with the growing scandal over the use of melamine by Chinese firms to adulterate various products - milk, confectionery, animal feed, etc. Through the latter, consumed by chickens, melamine is now even being found in eggs.

It's now given rise - you should pardon the expression - to an interesting problem.

Chocolate-flavored body spreads sold in British sex shops have been found to be tainted with melamine, the chemical that made thousands of babies ill in China, food safety authorities said Monday.

The British Food Standards Agency (FSA) said melamine had been found in Chinese-made "I Love You" sets, sold at Ann Summers sex shops, containing chocolate and strawberry body pens and chocolate-flavored penis and nipple spreads.

"This is a first. We've never had to put out an alert before on 'willy spread' -- chocolate-flavored or otherwise," the FSA said on its Web site, www.foodstandards.gov.uk.

It said the health risk from the affected products was low.

Uh-huh . . . as low as the relevant portions of anatomy would be after reading that, I should imagine!



Peter