GENEVA - The World Health Organization says an international meeting of experts in Ottawa has established what is the tolerable daily intake for the chemical that has contaminated milk products around the world.
The WHO says the meeting has set a more strict limit for melamine than what has been suggested by some national food safety authorities.
It said in a statement Friday that the tolerable level has been established at 0.2 milligrams of melamine per kilogram of body weight.
That means a 110-pound, or 50-kilogram, person could tolerate 10 mg of melamine per day.
The WHO stressed it has not set a "safe" level for melamine, a contaminant that should not be in food but sometimes is unavoidable.
The tolerable level indicates the amount a person can consume without higher health risk.
