That's what a new study of soup-eaters suggests. Taiwanese researchers enlisted a group of 12 healthy men and women who ate noodle soup in either a bowl made of ceramic or one made of melamine.

One group consumed 500 mL of hot noodle soup in a melamine bowl and another group consumed soup in ceramic bowls. Urine samples were collected from all participants after consumption for 12 hours.

Melamine was the chemical behind a 2008 health scare in China, when melamine-tainted baby formula killed six children and sickened 300,000 others. There were up to 2.5 million parts per billion of ...

The total melamine excretion in urine for 12 hours was 8.35 micrograms per liter after consuming soup from a melamine bowl, compared to only 1.31 micrograms after sipping soup from ceramic bowls.

Melamine excretion totaled 8.35 micrograms in those whose soup was served in melamine bowls, compared with 1.31 micrograms in the control group. China pledged to improve consumer protection after ...

In their small experiment, the researchers asked 12 healthy volunteers to consume 500 ml of hot noodle soup, either in a melamine bowl or in a ceramic bowl. All the participants provided urine ...