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Arsenic use in chicken feed
April 2007
Health experts and environmentalist are concerned about the wide-spread
practice of adding arsenic-based compounds to most chicken feed. Roxarsone,
the most common arsenic-based additive used in chicken feed, is fairly
benign; however, part of it converts into inorganic arsenic within the bird,
and the rest is transformed into inorganic forms after the bird excretes it.
According to the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), long-term exposure
to inorganic arsenic can cause bladder, lung, skin, kidney, and colon
cancer, as well as deleterious immunological, neurological, and endocrine
effects.
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