Melamine is safe?

From The Star, Friday 24th October 2008,

"Melamine is safe unless taken in excessive amounts and it will be expelled by the body in less than four hours.

University College London trained chemist Datuk Dr Neoh Soon Bin said the controversial compound was at least two times less toxic than aspirin used in painkillers, 16 times less than caffeine and 63 times less than nicotine if consumed at the same levels.

This means that a 15kg child would have to take 9.5mg of melamine for it to be have toxic effects.

If a 70kg adult ate 44kg of biscuits in a day, it would still be within the international safety limits of melamine intake.

If you ate that much biscuits in a day, you could die from a heart attack, not from melamine."