Chicken feed additive suspended over cancer fears

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Channel: News Direct · 2011 · News & Politics

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Alpharma, a subsidiary of Pfizer, will soon suspend US sales of poultry feed drug roxarsone after a study found inorganic arsenic in the livers of birds given the drug. Pfizer said the level of inorganic arsenic, a carcinogen in humans, was the equivalent of that found in a glass of water. The drug, which promotes growth and pigmentation, is still available in 14 other countries worldwide.

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