John Vandiver / Daily Times (Maryland) 4 jan 04
ALISBURY -- Since the 1940s, the poultry industry has used certain arsenic-based ingredients as chicken feed additives, but some researchers have started to scrutinize the long-standing practice because of possible health and environmental risks.
Monday, June 20, 2011
Better late than never: Arsenic compound may be banned in USA after decades of licit use.
By Sergio U. Dani, Heidelberg, Germany.
People are sick, the environment is contaminated, companies face lawsuits. After almost 7 decades of licit use of 3-Nitro (Roxarsone) in animal feed all over the world, the FDA-Food and Drug Administration has finally found a reason to ban it in the United States of America. Roxarsone is an arsenic compound, and a number of arsenic compounds are known potent causes of cancer and a number of other human diseases. Alpharma, a subsidiary of Pfizer Inc. which has been law-suited in alleged cases of cancer provoqued by Roxarsone will suspend U.S. sales of the animal drug. Read the FDA PRESS RELEASE here…
People are sick, the environment is contaminated, companies face lawsuits. After almost 7 decades of licit use of 3-Nitro (Roxarsone) in animal feed all over the world, the FDA-Food and Drug Administration has finally found a reason to ban it in the United States of America. Roxarsone is an arsenic compound, and a number of arsenic compounds are known potent causes of cancer and a number of other human diseases. Alpharma, a subsidiary of Pfizer Inc. which has been law-suited in alleged cases of cancer provoqued by Roxarsone will suspend U.S. sales of the animal drug. Read the FDA PRESS RELEASE here…
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