The Associated Press
ANNAPOLIS, Md. — A Maryland lawmaker has said that poultry feed containing a known carcinogen should be banned from Maryland farms even though its maker has already stopped selling it voluntarily.
Delegate Tom Hucker, D-Montgomery, told a panel of his colleagues on Feb. 8 that even though Pfizer Inc. has voluntarily suspended the sale of roxarsone, a chemical often put in chicken feed to help the birds grow and fight parasites, he wants the chemical banned in the state.
Hucker said the chemical and other additives that contain arsenic contaminate chicken meat and waste, polluting. . .
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