WASHINGTON — The National Chicken Council has refuted recent allegations that banned antibiotics and arsenic are found in U.S. chicken.
NCC's stand was made in response to a John Hopkins Center for Livable Future "Feather Meal" study, which claimed that it had found fluoroquinolones, which are antibiotics used to treat bacterial infections in people, in eight of 12 samples of feather meal, which is added to chicken feed.
"As the study's authors point out, this study looked only at feathers, not meat. If consumers were to take away one message from the findings, it should be from the. . .
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