Maryland’s governor has signed a bill
to ban the sale and use of poultry feeds that contain roxarsone which has
arsenic, effective Jan. 1.
The ban on the product that has been
in the market since 1940 arose from fears that organic arsenic residues are in
chicken meat.
In April, 2009, an activist in
Ontario sent an open letter to McDonalds Restaurants and to the Chicken Farmers
of Ontario marketing board asking them to stop raising and selling chickens fed
arsenic. That information was posted on a blog http://cowbossatwscc.blogspot.ca .
