Month: September 2022

ARSENIC IN POULTRY is the next focus of these blogs, probably a surprise to most US consumers. This has been a very well kept secret for over forty years. It is so beyond the range of simple common sense to use these types of well known toxins in food. View in LinkedIn

A BREACH OF TRUST has occurred in the US consumer against the food companies, the food factories, and the regulatory agencies that are supposed to protect the consumer. Repeated abuses, that clearly signal that there is no ethical code or sense of public responsibility, have simply put nails in the coffin. This epoch is surely coming to an end? View in LinkedIn

ARSENIC IS A POISON. "Arsenic is notoriously poisonous to multicellular life, although a few species of bacteria are able to use arsenic compounds as respiratory metabolites." It has been determined as present in US apple and pear juices. http://lnkd.in/duU5DF4 View in LinkedIn

DIRTY US SECRET for 40 years. "And, each time you eat chicken, you eat arsenic too. In 1944 Roxarsone ... now also known as 3 Nitro, Ristat or Renosal— was invented and allowed by the US Government to be fed to factory raised chickens ... This was taken up by producers all over the world. No studies were done for 40 years to see the effect of eating such chicken or its environmental impacts." http://www.localharvest.org/blog/16356/entry/absolute_pastured_poultry_article_use View in LinkedIn

"ROXARSONE is an organoarsenic compound that is widely used in poultry production as a feed additive to increase weight gain and improve feed efficiency, ... also approved in the United States for use in pigs ... approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for use in poultry and/or swine, along with nitarsone, arsanilic acid, and carbarsone." It is banned in Europe. http://lnkd.in/dcNxwCP View in LinkedIn

2006 ARSENIC IN CHICKEN STUDY describes a feeding program that has gone in for decades, despite the USDA's own data of 3-4 times higher arsenic levels in chicken meat than other meat from 5,000 samples from 1993-2000. The 2006 study found considerable arsenic variation by brand, but it was widespread, and an unnecessary risk to public health. http://lnkd.in/d8MJHr9 View in LinkedIn

ROXARSONE "contains organic arsenic, which is far less toxic than its inorganic counterpart. For decades, it was believed that animals simply excreted organic arsenic. But evidence is emerging that it may also be converted into its carcinogenic cousin in the body of the chicken." What sort of safety testing failed to evaluate this obvious concern? http://lnkd.in/dHt3ydp View in LinkedIn

140 CHICKEN SAMPLES IN 10 US CITIES (2013). "Chicken contained inorganic arsenic at the level of about two parts per billion. Organic chicken ... contained about half a part per billion. Federal standards allow anything below 500 parts per billion ... could cause an additional 124 deaths in the country annually from lung and bladder cancer, if the drug were fed to all chickens." http://lnkd.in/dHt3ydp View in LinkedIn

INCREASED ARSENIC IN CHICKEN LIVERS. "The levels were well below danger levels set in federal safety standards, though the researchers pointed out that those were first established in the 1940s. And the chicken samples tested were from 2010 and 2011, before sales of the drug that researchers say was a major driver of the elevated arsenic levels, roxarsone, were suspended." http://lnkd.in/dHt3ydp View in LinkedIn

NOT WORRISOME AND SLANTED STUDY. "The findings reflected “very low levels of arsenic,” and were not worrisome. "These samples, taken as part of this extremely small, agenda-driven study, were purchased before roxarsone was removed from the market in June 2011, and the conclusions are used to intentionally mislead consumers,” said ... the National Chicken Council." http://lnkd.in/dHt3ydp View in LinkedIn