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Maryland Gov. to sign bill to ban arsenic in poultry feed
Story Date: 5/23/2012
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Source: Tom Johnston, MEATINGPLACE, 5/22/12
Maryland Gov. Martin O’Malley will sign into law today a ban on the use and sale of poultry feed containing roxarsone or any other additive that contains arsenic, according to the governor’s news release posted on his website.
The ban is scheduled to take effect Jan. 1, 2013.
Poultry producers have used roxarsone, or 3-Nitro as sold by Pfizer subsidiary Alpharma, to protect the health of their flocks since the 1940. But in June 2011, the company decided to discontinue sales following an FDA study of 100 broilers detected inorganic arsenic, a known carcinogen, at higher levels in chickens treated with 3-Nitro compared with untreated chickens.
The agency noted that arsenic was found in very low levels, and that eating chicken as the drug is phased out of the market doesn’t pose a health risk.
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