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    The United States finally decided to ban arsenic from chicken feed

    • Last Update: 2014-03-04
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The chicken we eat now is basically broiler, which now accounts for about 70-80% of the Japanese chicken market Local Japanese chickenbreeds with an 80-day breeding period account for only 1% of the Japanese market broilers are the general name of chickens raised after providing chickens that have been hatched for less than 3 months, and have been bred and improved in order to reproduce in large numbers in a short period of time, and can now grow in 40-50 days In addition, broilers are kept in a very dense state, unable to move, and therefore constantly gain weight Nearly 30% of broilers have difficulty supporting their bodies and walking difficulties, and 3% of broilers have little ability to walk because broilers are a large number of concentrated breeding, once the emergence of infectious diseases will spread, so farmers will add a lot of antibiotics to the feed to prevent infectious diseases in the U.S chicken market, broiler also accounts for about 80 percent of the market What's the danger of arsenic? 2011, arsenic in broiler feed became a problem in the United States the United States approved arsenic for animal feed in the 1940s Arsenic is used to prevent intestinal parasitic infections, increase weight, improve feed efficiency, and improve pigment ationde Mainly used for broilers According to a 2006 report by the American Institute for Agricultural and Trade Policy, more than 70 percent of the 8.7 billion broilers produced in the United States each year are caused by arsenic some of the arsenic in nature is natural and partly due to environmental pollution, which is found in water, air, soil and food Arsenic is divided into organic arsenic and inorganic arsenic, inorganic arsenic is more toxic than organic arsenic, of which nitrite is the most toxic , arsenic is often used in pesticides and pesticides, is a common poison in our lives, because of its acute toxicity and carcinogenicity Arsenic poisoning has both acute poisoning caused by a large amount of one-time intake, as well as chronic poisoning caused by long-term intake, of which, the incubation period of chronic poisoning is very long May 2013, researchers at Johns Hopkins University's Bloomberg School of Public Health collected arsenic tests from supermarkets in the 10 major u.S cities, 116 of which were raw meat and 142 samples were cooked meat The resultis: normally raised chicken is much higher than antibiotic-free chicken, and organic chicken has a much higher concentration of inorganic arsenic September 30, 2013, the FDA finally banned the sale of three of the four drugs added to chicken, turkey and pig feed (Rocksa, kaba , acid against amino benzene) (Great Erxi) the chicken we eat now is basically broiler, and now, in the Japanese chicken market, broiler accounts for about 70-80% Local Japanese chickenbreeds with an 80-day breeding period account for only 1% of the Japanese market broilers are the general name of chickens raised after providing chickens that have been hatched for less than 3 months, and have been bred and improved in order to reproduce in large numbers in a short period of time, and can now grow in 40-50 days In addition, broilers are kept in a very dense state, unable to move, and therefore constantly gain weight Nearly 30% of broilers have difficulty supporting their bodies and walking difficulties, and 3% of broilers have little ability to walk because broilers are a large number of concentrated breeding, once the emergence of infectious diseases will spread, so farmers will add a lot of antibiotics to the feed to prevent infectious diseases in the U.S chicken market, broiler also accounts for about 80 percent of the market What's the danger of arsenic? 2011, arsenic in broiler feed became a problem in the United States the United States approved arsenic for animal feed in the 1940s Arsenic is used to prevent intestinal parasitic infections, increase weight, improve feed efficiency, and improve pigment ationde Mainly used for broilers According to a 2006 report by the American Institute for Agricultural and Trade Policy, more than 70 percent of the 8.7 billion broilers produced in the United States each year are caused by arsenic some of the arsenic in nature is natural and partly due to environmental pollution, which is found in water, air, soil and food Arsenic is divided into organic arsenic and inorganic arsenic, inorganic arsenic is more toxic than organic arsenic, of which nitrite is the most toxic , arsenic is often used in pesticides and pesticides, is a common poison in our lives, because of its acute toxicity and carcinogenicity Arsenic poisoning has both acute poisoning caused by a large amount of one-time intake, as well as chronic poisoning caused by long-term intake, of which, the incubation period of chronic poisoning is very long May 2013, researchers at Johns Hopkins University's Bloomberg School of Public Health collected arsenic tests from supermarkets in the 10 major u.S cities, 116 of which were raw meat and 142 samples were cooked meat The resultis: normally raised chicken is much higher than antibiotic-free chicken, and organic chicken has a much higher concentration of inorganic arsenic September 30, 2013, the FDA finally banned the sale of three of the four drugs added to chicken, turkey and pig feed (rocksa, kaba , acid on amino benzene) (Great Erxion) and "Us, feed, chicken feed, arsenic" -related articles: Recommendation: News: News: News:
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