Melamine dishes have boomed in popularity. Do you know why? Many restaurant kitchens have replaced their heavy, fragile porcelain dinnerware with melamine dinnerware sets for a number of reasons. Yet, there are some groups who insist that eating from melamine dishes is actually a health risk. To understand why some salad plates can cause so much discord, read below. Plastics Make the World Go Round: How Melamine Is Made. Melamine products were first made way back in 1834 by combining melamine resins with strengthening materials to form an organic industrial compound; nitrogen makes up 67% of its mass. The result…