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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 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

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

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

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 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

LIVING DRUGS are the future of medicine. We went from (1) single small molecule drugs to (2) monoclonal drugs made by the body, (3) to stem cells, (4) fecal therapy with the microbiome, and sometime in the future, (5) phage drugs. Each new stage in the class of drugs is an increase in efficacy. View in LinkedIn

PHAGE ANTIBIOTICS are the subject of a future series of blogs. It is a fabulous and optimistic topic, but a diversion in this current stream of consciousness. It dovetails with our entry into the world of living drugs. View in LinkedIn

FLU VACCINES change annually as the flu virus mutates to avoid immune surveillance, and offers a regulatory pathway for phages. The FDA problem is needing a defined drug, rather than a mixture of drugs that evolve over time. Russia solved this regulatory issue. Shouldn't we? View in LinkedIn

BACTERIOPHAGES (Phages) have been used as antimicrobial control drugs in Russia for over 75 years. They are very specific for their host, do not infect human cells, and have a very long safety record. The problem from a US regulatory issue is that they evolve with their hosts. However, they represent the single biggest hope to get out of the antibiotic crisis. View in LinkedIn