Year: 2022

NICE PINK MEAT BY ARSENIC. "until recently, chicken producers would routinely supplement poultry feed with a growth-promoting arsenical drug called roxarsone, which also treats intestinal parasites in the birds and gives their meat an appealing pink color. A study in this issue of EHP shows that inorganic arsenic (iAs) accumulates in the breast meat of broiler chickens, potentially as a result of treatment with roxarsone." http://lnkd.in/d4EXyag View in LinkedIn

"ROXARSONE has attracted attention as a source of arsenic contamination of poultry and other foods. In July 2011, Pfizer suspended sale of roxarsone in the U.S. in response to a study by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA); the FDA found that roxarsone use was associated with elevated levels of inorganic arsenic in chicken livers." http://lnkd.in/dcNxwCP View in LinkedIn

ARSENIC IN CHICKEN MEAT. "A 2013 market basket study linked the use of roxarsone and other arsenical feed additives to increased levels of inorganic arsenic in chicken breast meat ... from conventionally produced chickens ... had three times more inorganic arsenic than did breast meat from chickens produced according to USDA Organic standards." http://lnkd.in/dcNxwCP View in LinkedIn

DETECTABLE ARSENIC IN POULTRY MEAT. "Then there’s the question of arsenic traces in industrial chicken meat. In 2006, the Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy (IATP) tested chicken samples from supermarkets and fast-food joints — and found that 55 percent contained detectable arsenic." http://lnkd.in/dgKDrwk View in LinkedIn

EUROPEANS BANNED ARSENIC. "In the 80s, when the European Union did the first tests, they banned arsenic in chicken feed immediately. However, it is still being fed to chickens in the rest of the world." http://www.localharvest.org/blog/16356/entry/absolute_pastured_poultry_article_use View in LinkedIn

ARSENIC IN CHICKEN FEED. "It’s standard practice on factory chicken farms to dose those unfortunate birds with arsenic. The idea is that it makes them grow faster — fast growth being the supreme goal of factory animal farming — and helps control a common intestinal disease called coccidiosis." http://lnkd.in/dgKDrwk View in LinkedIn

ARSENICAL DRUGS IN FEED ENTERS GROUNDWATER. “Arsenic in poultry manure is rapidly converted into an inorganic form that is highly water soluble and capable of moving into surface and ground water." http://lnkd.in/dgKDrwk View in LinkedIn

ARSENIC IS A CARCINOGEN. "The US National Toxicology Program (NTP) is formed from parts of several different government agencies, including the ... NIH), the ... CDC, and the ... FDA. In its most recent Report on Carcinogens, the NTP classifies arsenic and inorganic arsenic compounds as “known to be human carcinogens." http://www.cancer.org/cancer/cancercauses/othercarcinogens/intheworkplace/arsenic View in LinkedIn

The WHO "recommends a limit of 0.01 mg/L (10ppb) of arsenic in drinking water. This recommendation was established based on the limit of detection for most laboratories testing equipment at the time of publication of the WHO water quality guidelines. More recent findings show that consumption of water with levels as low as 0.00017 mg/L (0.17ppb) over long periods of time can lead to arsenicosis." http://lnkd.in/dB3MNvy View in LinkedIn

LOW LEVEL ARSENIC EXPOSURE by USEPA "quantified the lifetime exposure of arsenic in drinking water at concentrations of 0.0017 mg/L, 0.00017 mg/L, and 0.000017 mg/L are associated with a lifetime skin cancer risk of 1 in 10,000, 1 in 100,000, and 1 in 1,000,000 respectively." Parts of the US have high arsenic levels in water ... http://lnkd.in/dB3MNvy View in LinkedIn