date:May 17, 2013
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In the US, currently there is no federal law prohibiting the sale or use of arsenic-based drugs in poultry feed.
In January this year, Maryland became the first US state to ban the use of most arsenic drugs in chicken feed.
Lead study author Keeve Nachman said that suspension of roxarsone sales is good in the short term, but it isn't a real solution.
Hopefully this study will persuade FDA to ban the drug and permanently keep it off the market, Nachman added.
The study was led by