Forwarded by Jane Clark

Report on Arsenic in Chicken

The Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy has released a new study,
entitled Playing Chicken: Avoiding Arsenic in Your Meat, which reveals that
arsenic is present in most non-organic chicken products. Testing of 155
samples from supermarket chicken products found 55 percent carried
detectable levels arsenic, a highly toxic carcinogen. All 90 fast food
chicken products contained arsenic. The toxin levels are due to the industry
practice of adding arsenic to chicken feed with the goal of killing
parasites and promoting growth. Arsenic is not allowed in organic chicken
feed. For a copy of the report and additional information, go to the website
http://www.iatp.org/.

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