WASHINGTON — “It is not surprising or worrisome that very low levels of arsenic were found on chicken,” said Dr. Ashley Peterson, National Chicken Council vice president of scientific and regulatory affairs.
The statement was in response to a very small Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health study that claims to have found extremely low levels of inorganic arsenic on chicken meat.
“Arsenic is a naturally occurring element in our environment that is widely distributed within the earth’s soil, air and water,” said Peterson.
Chickens in the U.S. produced for meat, known as broilers, are no longer given. . .
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