> FDA announced that Alpharma, a subsidiary of Pfizer Inc, will voluntarily suspend sale of the animal drug 3-Nitro (Roxarsone) in response to a new FDA study of 100 broiler chickens that detected inorganic arsenic, a known carcinogen, at higher levels in the livers of chickens treated with the drug 3-Nitro (Roxarsone) than in untreated chickens. FDA officials stress that the levels of inorganic arsenic detected were very low and that continuing to eat chicken as 3-Nitro is suspended from the market does not pose a health risk.
> 3-Nitro® (Roxarsone) is an arsenic-based animal drug, manufactured by Alpharma LLC, a subsidiary of Pfizer Inc. It is approved to help prevent coccidiosis when used in combination with certain animal drugs. Coccidiosis is a parasitic disease that infects the intestinal tracts in poultry and can lead to death in poultry
The US owes it to the Vietnamese people to clean up the arsenic, but of course they're never going to do that. I know several elderly Vietnamese who developed leukemia after serving in the war.
If you eat rice, please eat white not brown, parboil it with a ratio of 4:1 water to rice, and dump the water afterwards [0].
I remember from a video of Cody's Lab that metallic gold is safe, but oxidized gold is toxic. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gold#Toxicity But it's very difficult to oxidize gold, and even gold the salts try to go back to the metallic form, so most of the times it's not a problem.
> Until 2012, chickens in the U.S. were given compounds of arsenic to prevent certain diseases and to make the meat plump and pink
I was curious exactly what happened in 2012:
https://web.archive.org/web/20111229174314/https://www.fda.g... (2011)
> FDA announced that Alpharma, a subsidiary of Pfizer Inc, will voluntarily suspend sale of the animal drug 3-Nitro (Roxarsone) in response to a new FDA study of 100 broiler chickens that detected inorganic arsenic, a known carcinogen, at higher levels in the livers of chickens treated with the drug 3-Nitro (Roxarsone) than in untreated chickens. FDA officials stress that the levels of inorganic arsenic detected were very low and that continuing to eat chicken as 3-Nitro is suspended from the market does not pose a health risk.
> 3-Nitro® (Roxarsone) is an arsenic-based animal drug, manufactured by Alpharma LLC, a subsidiary of Pfizer Inc. It is approved to help prevent coccidiosis when used in combination with certain animal drugs. Coccidiosis is a parasitic disease that infects the intestinal tracts in poultry and can lead to death in poultry
The US owes it to the Vietnamese people to clean up the arsenic, but of course they're never going to do that. I know several elderly Vietnamese who developed leukemia after serving in the war.
If you eat rice, please eat white not brown, parboil it with a ratio of 4:1 water to rice, and dump the water afterwards [0].
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S004896972...
"The bottom line is that arsenic is a heavy metal, like lead, and all heavy metals are dangerous and carcinogenic."
Gold, iron, tin are are all "heavy metals" and are certainly not carcinogenic or dangerous.
I remember from a video of Cody's Lab that metallic gold is safe, but oxidized gold is toxic. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gold#Toxicity But it's very difficult to oxidize gold, and even gold the salts try to go back to the metallic form, so most of the times it's not a problem.
Those are not considered heavy metals in toxicology.
That's their point. Heavy as in "has some gravity to it" is an unambiguous term in all other sciences except toxicology.