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Hungry? Well pull up a chair, the FDA wants to tell you something.

Nearly 70 percent of chicken in the U.S. is plumped up with cancer-causing arsenic. Doesn’t sound very appetizing. There’s good news though, the FDA wants the chemicals removed.

Reports MSN:

The FDA has asked Pfizer to stop manufacturing the arsenic-containing drug, Roxarsone, that was found in the livers of nearly half of all chicken tested.

According to the Wall Street Journal, “The agency said it recently conducted a study of 100 broiler chickens that detected inorganic arsenic at higher levels in the livers of chickens treated with 3-Nitro compared with untreated chickens … Pfizer said sale of 3-Nitro would be stopped by early July in order to allow animal producers to transition to other treatments.”

This urgent request by the FDA is surprising in itself as the agency has always maintained that the arsenic in chickens is at such low levels that it is safe for consumption, when meanwhile it has been clinically proven to be extremely toxic to human health, causing an array of neurological defects in developing fetuses and young children…Looks like the FDA finally got the memo, and not a moment too soon!

Food transparency is becoming more and more popular. Last year, Subway removed a rubber found in yoga mats from its bread (after a food blogger put the company on blast), and McDonald’s recently revealed the 19 different ingredients in their french fries.

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