Four years the Center for Food Safety and the Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy, ask the FDA to ban the use of arsenic-based drugs in animal feed.
On May 13 2013 consumer advocacy group Food & Water Watch announced that it sued the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), saying that the agency has unlawfully ignored a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request for records related to arsenic-based drugs—known as arsenicals—that are added to poultry feed.
The lawsuit follows on the heels of a new study led by scientists at the Johns Hopkins Center for a Livable Future (CLF), which found that feeding arsenicals to chickens likely increases consumers’ exposure to inorganic arsenic, a carcinogen.
On april 30, 2013 the Center for Food Safety also filed suit to force the FDA to answer their demands to ban arsenic from drugs used in chicken feed.
The FDA banned 98 drugs containing arsenic that was used in animal feed. But none of the banned drugs are currently being .The one drug that is presently used was not banned stating that they needed to study it some more. Basically they did nothing to improve the health of citizens while getting headlines about banning arsenic. The 50% of chickens in our groceries that contain arsenic will still contain arsenic
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