{"id":24927,"date":"2009-12-09T12:29:44","date_gmt":"2009-12-09T12:29:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/organicconsumers.org\/?p=24927"},"modified":"2009-12-09T12:29:44","modified_gmt":"2009-12-09T12:29:44","slug":"article_19799","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/organicconsumers.org\/article_19799\/","title":{"rendered":"Center for Food Safety and Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy Petition FDA to Remove Arsenic from Animal Feeds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today, the Center for Food Safety (CFS) and the Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy (IATP), filed <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/truefoodnow.files.wordpress.com\/2009\/12\/arsenic-petition-12-8-09-final.pdf\" rel=\"noopener\">a petition <\/a>with<br \/>\nthe Food and Drug Administration (FDA) calling for the immediate<br \/>\nwithdrawal of approvals for all animal drug applications for<br \/>\narsenic-containing compounds used in animal feed. These additives are<br \/>\ncommonly used in poultry production to induce faster weight gain and<br \/>\ncreate the appearance of a healthy color in meat from chickens, turkeys<br \/>\nand hogs. The petition was supported by a coalition of food and farm<br \/>\ngroups around the country.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe fact that arsenic \u2013 a known and powerful carcinogen \u2013 in these<br \/>\nfeed additives leads to arsenic residue in chicken is now well known,\u201d<br \/>\nsaid the Center for Food Safety\u2019s Executive Director Andrew Kimbrell.<br \/>\n\u201cFDA\u2019s failure to investigate the mounting evidence that these<br \/>\ncompounds are unsafe is a breach of the public trust, and the use of<br \/>\narsenic-containing compounds in food animal production is a needless<br \/>\nand dangerous risk to human health.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cArsenic can be poisonous. Its use in<br \/>\nanimal feed, therefore, is unnecessarily risky and has not been shown<br \/>\nto be safe given the latest science,\u201d said David Wallinga, M.D. of the<br \/>\nIATP. \u201cTo best protect public health, all avoidable exposures to<br \/>\narsenic should be eliminated. FDA can and should act.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Arsenic-containing compounds have been approved additives to animal feed since the 1940s and are currently used in chicken, turkey and swine<br \/>\nproduction. Most arsenic-containing animal feed additives are not used<br \/>\nto treat sickness. Instead, arsenicals are generally approved for<br \/>\n\u201cincreased weight gain, improved feed efficiency, and improved<br \/>\npigmentation.\u201d The European Union has never approved the use of<br \/>\narsenicals in animal feed, acknowledging the lack of science supporting<br \/>\nhealth or safety standards for such use.<\/p>\n<p>Arsenic-containing compounds are most widely used in chicken<br \/>\nproduction, and most chickens receive arsenic-laced feed. In 2004 and<br \/>\n2005, the IATP tested for total arsenic in retail packages of raw<br \/>\nchicken and in \u201cfast food\u201d chicken sandwiches and nuggets. Test results<br \/>\nrevealed detectable levels of arsenic in the majority of both<br \/>\nsupermarket and fast food chicken with higher levels found in brands of<br \/>\nchicken raised conventionally. Lower or non-detectable levels of<br \/>\narsenic were found in certified organic and other \u201cpremium\u201d brands<br \/>\nwhere the use of arsenic-containing feed additives were either legally<br \/>\nprohibited or claimed not to have been used. These results strongly<br \/>\nsuggest that use of arsenic-containing compounds in poultry feed leads<br \/>\nto arsenic residues in U.S. marketed and eaten chicken.<\/p>\n<p>Two weeks ago, U.S. Representative Steve Israel of New York<br \/>\nannounced legislation calling for a ban on the use of the arsenical<br \/>\ncompound roxarsone in poultry feed. His bill, the \u201cPoison-Free Poultry<br \/>\nAct of 2009,\u201d would prohibit all uses of roxarsone as a food additive<br \/>\nin poultry. The groups applaud the bill, but maintain that it does not<br \/>\ngo far enough. Their petition not only calls for a ban on roxarsone,<br \/>\nbut also on Arsanilic acid, Nitarsone, and Carbarsone, commonly used<br \/>\ncompounds which contain arsenicals.<\/p>\n<p>The groups include: Food Animal Concerns Trust, Oregon Physicians<br \/>\nfor Social Responsibility, San Francisco Physicians for Social<br \/>\nResponsibility, Food and Water Watch, Center for Biological Diversity,<br \/>\nNational Sustainable Agriculture Coalition, Center for Environmental<br \/>\nHealth, Institute for a Sustainable Future, Health Care Without Harm<br \/>\nand Ecology Center of Michigan.<\/p>\n<p>\n\t<span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">To read the full petition<\/span>, visit: http:\/\/truefoodnow.files.wordpress.com\/2009\/12\/arsenic-petition-12-8-09-final.pdf .<\/p>\n<p>\n\t<span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">For IATP\u2019s report<\/span>, visit: Playing Chicken: Avoiding Arsenic in Your Meat, visit: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.iatp.org\/iatp\/publications.cfm?accountID=421&amp;refID=80529\">http:\/\/www.iatp.org\/iatp\/publications.cfm?accountID=421&amp;refID=80529<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\n\t<span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">The Center for Food Safety<\/span> is national, non-profit,<br \/>\nmembership organization, founded in 1997, that works to protect human<br \/>\nhealth and the environment by curbing the use of harmful food<br \/>\nproduction technologies and by promoting organic and other forms of<br \/>\nsustainable agriculture. On the web at: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.centerforfoodsafety.org\/\">http:\/\/www.centerforfoodsafety.org<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\n\t<span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">The Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy<\/span><br \/>\nworks locally and globally at the intersection of policy and practice<br \/>\nto ensure fair and sustainable food, farm and trade systems. On the web<br \/>\nat: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.iatp.org\/\">www.iatp.org<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today, the Center for Food Safety (CFS) and the Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy (IATP), filed a petition with the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) calling for the immediate withdrawal of approvals for all animal drug applications for&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1008,1031],"tags":[19,3,6],"organicbytes":[],"countries":[],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Center for Food Safety and Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy Petition FDA to Remove Arsenic from Animal Feeds - Organic Consumers<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/organicconsumers.org\/article_19799\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Center for Food Safety and Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy Petition FDA to Remove Arsenic from Animal Feeds - Organic Consumers\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Today, the Center for Food Safety (CFS) and the Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy (IATP), filed a petition with the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) calling for the immediate withdrawal of approvals for all animal drug applications for...\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/organicconsumers.org\/article_19799\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Organic Consumers\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/organicconsumers\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2009-12-09T12:29:44+00:00\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"OCA\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:creator\" content=\"@organicconsumer\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:site\" content=\"@organicconsumer\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"OCA\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"3 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/organicconsumers.org\/article_19799\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/organicconsumers.org\/article_19799\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"OCA\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/organicconsumers.org\/#\/schema\/person\/17936886bc35620784b0838870381700\"},\"headline\":\"Center for Food Safety and Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy Petition FDA to Remove Arsenic from Animal Feeds\",\"datePublished\":\"2009-12-09T12:29:44+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2009-12-09T12:29:44+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/organicconsumers.org\/article_19799\/\"},\"wordCount\":680,\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/organicconsumers.org\/#organization\"},\"keywords\":[\"CAFOs vs. Free Range\",\"Environment &amp; 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