Chinese kids on melamine milk develop crystals: WHO

Great news! Traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) meets the New Age.

"Some children who have fallen ill in China after being fed milk formula that had been contaminated with melamine have developed 'crystals' in their kidneys, a WHO food safety expert said on Tuesday.

'Our understanding is that these are not normal kidney stones because they are not being detected via all of the tools that one uses to detect kidney stones, so some are not showing up on x-rays," said Anthony Hazzard, regional advisor for food safety at the World Health Organization.

'We believe at this stage that it's really the complex of melamine and cyanuric acid forming what you call crystals ... they can form in the small tubules (in the kidneys) and they get bigger and can block the tubules,' he said in a telephone interview from Manila."

Welcome to the Age of Aquarius.

And harness the power of two.