arsenic

Gotta Get the Lead Out, But the Arsenic's OK?

Gotta Get the Lead Out, But the Arsenic's OK?Posted by Kerry Trueman on April 6, 2006 - 6:33am.

No more pollo con mole for me. First comes the news that 40,000 pounds of Dagoba organic chocolate had to be recalled after a laboratory in Oregon, where the company is based, confirmed that three kinds of Dagoba chocolate bars contained high levels of lead.




Another Installment of "What's in Your Water?"

Another Installment of "What's in Your Water?"Posted by Hillary Rosner on April 3, 2006 - 8:17am.

What better way to start the week than to ponder what might be lurking in your water supply - and how it got there. New research is turning up evidence that arsenic used in chicken feed may be contaminating some groundwater and surface water sources.

Chicken droppings, like many other forms of animal excrement, are used as fertilizer because of their concentrations of nitrogen and phosphorous. (These elements can also make their way into water supplies.) According to the web site of the journal Environmental Science and Technology, many chickens raised to be roasted are fed a supplement called roxarsone - a form of arsenic that is relatively harmless but seems to be breaking down into a more harmful variety once it's in the soil.



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