date:May 17, 2013
s were obtained from ten US metropolitan areas between December 2010 and June 2011.
During this period, roxarsone was easily available to poultry companies that sought to add it to chicken feed.
In the meat samples that were evaluated, the researchers identified inorganic arsenic and residual roxarsone.
In the meat that contained roxarsone, levels of inorganic arsenic were four times higher compared with the levels in USDA Organic chicken, in which roxarsone and other arsenic drugs are banned